Before buying the pair of jeans at hand, the woman could have dealt with bad experiences involving cheap pairs of jeans before, which may have led her to believe the jeans she just bought had just as bad quality. However, it is possible that the woman may have accidently ripped the jeans apart during the wasing.
This demostrates the woman has a biased point of view when it comes to jeans.
she understands that her dreams of marriage and family are dead. ... she regrets that she is an outsider and has not spent more time with her sister and her sister's family.