Weekly Category Spotlight — Jeans

Kimes Is The Premium Western Tier. Men's jeans rate 90.24 at 181.5% sell-through; women's rate 73.81 at 120.6%. Both genders clear their entire standing stock and then some, at $50–61 averages — denim priced like a product, not a commodity.

Luxury Denim Exists — In Two Places. Double RL jeans rate 67.76 at a $155.85 average on 1,000+ sold, and Purple Label's rate 33.79 at $113.04. Outside those two labels, a three-figure jeans average appears only in rows too thin to trust.

A Boot Brand's Jeans Are A Real Row. Tecovas jeans (men) rate 29.63 (Depends) at 82.1% turnover — better than most denim-first brands manage, on a label whose jeans are the afterthought.

The $75 Kimes Ceiling. Kimes 90-day sales concentrate between $50–75, with the last sale clearing at $74.99: nothing moved above it in the trailing 90 days. Price Kimes at $75 and under, or don't expect the turn the rating promises.

True Religion, Both Genders. Men's jeans 2.29 against 58,000+ listings; women's 3.17 against 69,000+, with averages of $40 and $28 and Δ 0.00 reproductions in both. The stitch premium died and the flood stayed.

Premium Women's Denim Under The Gate. Citizens of Humanity 2.43 against 22,000+ listings and Agolde 2.43 against 14,000+ — both under the 10% sell-through gate, both Forget It regardless of the label's retail story.

A Dashed Row Stays Dashed. Lucchese's women's jeans publish their rating but no averages this edition — a stuck research filter hid the price fields. The table shows the dash rather than a borrowed number.

Denim splits on pool size, not brand heat. Where the pool is small and the buyer is specific — Kimes, Double RL, Tecovas — jeans behave like the rest of the western shelf. Where the pool is a river, the rating is a rounding error on a flood. Hunt the small pools; let the river carry someone else's inventory.