You know: "If I buy a pair of summer boots, would they make last season's high-waisted skirt look cooler?
In fact, except for a lingering pair of last year's sub-$1,000 iMac models, Apple has banished C.R.T.'s (cathode-ray tubes, the traditional, bulky glass screens) from its product line.
Sights paid less than $1,000 for a pair of jeans that is probably worth 10 times that but looks to the outsider like a very cozy pair of last year's 501's.
The problem in dealing with a Wild West economy such as that of post-communist Romania, where the average wage is around £65 a month, is that a pair of last year's Adidas boots intended as a charitable gift can very swiftly find their way on to a market stall instead.
A pair of 1940's table lamps with black shades is $800; a pair of 1920's silver-leaf wall brackets, $850.
A pair of 1930's Chinese Chippendale love seats upholstered in toile is $4,500.
A pair of 1959 watercolor portraits of Jamaican children could be had for $150 apiece.
He had stuffed Champagne glasses inside a pair of winter gloves so they wouldn't break.
Perhaps the biggest casualty was a pair of 1637 portraits by the Dutch artist Frans Hals.
McKellen also had leading roles in a pair of 1999 releases, Apt Pupil and Gods and Monsters.
