March 31, 2004

The hardest button to button

Tiny: "Wait, did you say you were looking for the most expensive pair of pants?"

Mister Lucky: "INexpensive. The most inexpensive highest quality mens pants. The quality and cost balance, that's what I've been looking at."

"I wonder what the most expensive pair of pants is? You should totally do a search for the most expensive pair. I wonder what they would be?"

"Well, you have to think about what makes something expensive. So you have to think about obscurity and materials."

"Like a pair of handwoven silk pants?"

"No, there's probably a place where fashion pants top out. So...probably....Spacepants. I think space suit pants are probably the most expensive pair of pants one could buy."

Posted by Sonya at March 31, 2004 02:35 PM
Comments

Well, considering that you pretty much have to buy spacesuits as a one-piece item, you can get the "pants" for as little as $8,000 - $9,000(or around $17,000 for the full suit). That's for surplus Russian gear, which is more plentifully available than U.S. spacesuits (a "practice suit" worn by Neil Armstrong sold at auction recently for $179K). I'm guessing that an Armani original could easily go for at least that much.

Now, if you want Hollywood costume type spacesuit pants, that is something you wouldn't actually be able to wear in outer space, then we're talking bargain basement prices!

Posted by: THE COMTE at March 31, 2004 03:09 PM

your ass is out of this world

Posted by: erin at March 31, 2004 03:11 PM

Erin gets seven million points.

Posted by: sonya at March 31, 2004 04:10 PM

Oh, hey, look at this-- evidently there's this website called "Google", where you can find out all about even really obscure stuff. Like space suits and space suit pants.

Neat.

Erin always gets seve million points. Geeze.

Posted by: Joshua at April 1, 2004 11:36 AM

True Josh except that, as an unabashed, died-in-the-wool space geek, I actually have several websites in my Favorites file dealing with exactly this sort of space-geeky thing...

Posted by: THE COMTE at April 1, 2004 04:13 PM

Les Amis in Fremont used to sell $96 underpants. They were nearly identical to a pair of $8 underpants that I owned, and we couldn't figure out where the extra $88 went; the running joke was that the elastic lace must have been hand-tatted by blind monks. (Nothing says expensive like hand-tatted underpants.)

Posted by: mol at April 2, 2004 10:49 AM