The $40 Pants Making the Rounds Through the Brooklyn Theater Scene

Every product is independently selected by editors. If you buy something through our links, New York may earn an affiliate commission.

A fun one on the site today — an investigation into how a $40 pair of quilted pants from Amazon became the unofficial uniform of the Brooklyn theater scene. Writer Ambar Pardilla told me that her tip came from Sight Unseen editor Monica Khemsurov, who got word from lawyer Meg Brown. Brown saw the lightweight, quilted, no-name Amazon pants on Jessie Winograd, a massage therapist who is part of the cast of the play Terce: A Practical Breviary, which opened in January at the Space at Irondale in Fort Greene and was created by Heather Christian, who also has a pair. Winograd sent a link to the pants to the play’s 30-plus-person cast after being sent the same link by fellow cast member Ciera Cope — who, it turns out, had noticed the pants during rehearsal on musician Amy Santos.

Pardilla says that even after she filed the story, the pants sisterhood continued to grow apace — while Pardilla and I were talking this morning, one of the cast members emailed her saying that her friend is buying a pair too.

Also on the site: The Dyson Gen5detect vacuum impressed contributor Madeleine Kuhns so much that it’s now our best-in-class pet-hair vacuum and cordless-stick vacuum; and here’s everything worth buying at Walmart’s July deals event (including 47 percent off Airpods). —Ashley Wolfgang, newsletter editor