Those pictures of ankle flared pants are not simply a case of a 33” inseam model wearing 28” inseam pants. For a company like Zara, a model would never come across looking that frumpy in customer-facing product images unless the look was intentional.

I always figured that the $600+ “buy outright” price tags were inflated for the people who *could* buy phones before their contract renewal (disposable income and a desire to have the latest and greatest every few months), and the people who *had* to buy new phones outright (it used to be a broken phone on Verizon =…