Shopping for jeans is not easy. Go beyond the big retail brands and you€™ve got more than three dozen smaller names to test out and try to size, so much that buying a single pair of jeans can take hours. Let€™s not even talk about the fact that on top of this, more than half of the lines out there cost upwards of a few hundred dollars. For that price, it€™s almost as if denim designers should have somebody try it all on for us and tell us what to buy and what to avoid. Oh wait, that€™s what I€™ve done! After trying (and trying) dozens of jeans, here€™s a SLIDESHOW of my five favorites!
