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Denim's $90 Rewrite of a '90s Classic

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The straight-taper leg is having its moment again, and this time it costs ninety dollars. The cut takes the boxy ease of nineties denim and tapers it just enough to read modern rather than borrowed. It is the kind of jeans that could show up under a blazer at a Palm Beach lunch or with boots on a Nashville porch, no styling gymnastics required. Nothing about it strains for attention, which may be exactly the point.

With reporting from Elle.

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