She probably paid big money for half a skirt too. Somewhere , somebody in clothing manufacturing has to be laughing at women and making all kinds of money. “We can charge 40 dollars for a denim skirt, but watch this. If we cut the skirt in two, we can sell each piece for 80 dollars!”
Pointless tangent:
I went into the Saks (sp?) 5th Ave clearance store, and browsed for something nice for m'lady. Stumbled across a short denim skirt covered in
metal washers - and marked down from a list price of
$2500.00. Ack! AFAIK it's still on the rack marked no higher than $50.
Talk about "somebody laughing and making all kinds of money"... they wouldn't list it at that if someone wasn't going to pay it...