How leather pants can get you a job in advertising

Since we’re AdFreak, we’ll make the lead of this post about how the following anecdote makes for an interesting way to get job offers to be a copywriter. Seems a guy in New York, a veteran seller of flotsam and jetsam on eBay, put up for sale a pair of never worn, ten-year-old Donna Karan leather jeans on the site recently. But, in so doing, he also put a whole new spin on, “Truth in advertising”—rather than sell the jeans on their merits, he decided to sell them on their demerits.