icebergslim: I feel for you man. Everyone in this thread just doesn't get it. I would also be guessing that a lot of these people aren't in metro areas where these jeans are a dime a dozen. Its just a different experience overall. Believe me, you will be socially ostracized if you wear wrangler jeans to a club/bar in Scottsdale
With me and the guys I hang out with, all of them have at least one nice pair of jeans (Seven for all mankind, True religion, Rock and Republic, Citizens of Humanity). I just started buying nice jeans around a year ago and now i have around 5 pairs (mostly sevens). The difference in quality is actually very huge. Most people like to act like its just a label. Maybe 50% of the price is just the label, but the nice pairs of jeans I have fit me so much better and are so much more comfortable than the jeans I used to buy. Its all simply a manner of preference.
I bet none of you on here have ever gotten a compliment on your wranglers or levis jeans. I get compliments to the tune of around 1+ per month (At the least). Girls DO NOTICE, do NOT act like they don't. Its been a conversation starter a couple of times as well.
I used to be able to justify buying expensive video cards and upgrading my computer every 4 - 6 months. Now I don't do that at all, I just have a laptop that I upgrade every 1 - 2 years and a desktop i upgrade every 2 years or so. I spend my money on more important things than a couple frames per second. Now I find upgrading your computer constantly is a stupid, money losing game. I get a lot more (social) value out of my jeans than a video card. Its called diminishing marginal returns, and I dont find much marginal returns out of a video card that loses half its value in a couple months.
For the people that say nice clothes dont matter.....Lets say there were 2 exact copies of you. One of you is wearing nice jeans/shirt. The other one of you is wearing wranglers and a wal-mart shirt. You are at a bar talking to a girl you haven't ever met before. Both copies of you get the same chance with the girl and say the same things. There would be a 90% certainty that this girl is enjoying the company of the well dressed you more than the cheaper clothes you. Its all about the full package, and if you are severely lacking on the fashion front, people notice.