Excuse Me, Are Those Stolen Jeans You're Wearing?

Boy, being fashionable is getting more expensive by the day. And more dangerous, it seems. Girl Next Door on Fifth and Lamar became the second store in the past month to be robbed for their designer jeans. (Luxe Apothetique in the Arboretum was robbed for the same product just before Christmas.) And these crooks had taste and apparently a bit of retail knowledge. They didn't go for the sale rack or the scarves, they went for something they knew had high value on the black market: brands like Seven, True Religion and Citizens of Humanity. The thieves apparently either cased the joint or had come in and realized the store had just received a large shipment and decided to take advantage of the opportunity. They got away with about $30,000 worth of jeans. Jeans! And here we thought the Soviet Union had disbanded.

In other unquasi-related news: Allen Y. Chen did some serious damage to his credit card at the admittedly-trying-too-hard hipster boutique Metropark in Barton Creek Mall. More news as it breaks, right here.