Probably so they can be marked down 90% off in 6 months. That way the store/designer can write off $1800, and some poor schmuck can be ecstatic about wearing 'designer' f-ing plain cotton shorts that they got 'such a deal' on.
Wouldn't you have loved to be a fly on the wall in whatever meeting they decided how to price these? How on earth is that a reasonable price for a pair of cotton shorts that could have come from F21 just as eaily?!
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ {Ralph Waldo Emerson}
those shorts better do my taxes, clean my house, and give me a massage, for $2,015!!! That's just absolutely ridiculous, esp. given the economy. I could sorta see some designer trying to get away with the crazy during a good economy, but while we're in/coming out of a recession? Someone's been huffing the fabric glue...