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Anju Somani • March 30, 2007

Some days, jeans just don’t cut it. They’re too thick and uncomfortable, and just not what we want to take out of our collective WEB closet and put on in the morning. When we roll out of bed at 7:30 (or whenever) in the morning with 20 minutes or less to get to school, we could care less if we look grungy and gross. We just want to wear something comfortable that expresses our collective WEB mood—tired—and jeans don’t give off that impression. We mean, seriously, who needs five pockets when we have backpacks? Who needs pants that are way too long and just get dirty at the bottom when Iowa spring storms hit? No one. We at The WEB feel there’s a much better alternative than wearing mainstream blue jeans everyday: sweatpants (but not the form-fitting kind).

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