Have your magazine editors taken leave of their senses (Open door, 30 January)? Defending the decision to showcase £425 shoes and a handbag costing £1,700 in Weekend magazine, Merope Mills alleges that highlighting fashion trends is "as much a forum for ideas as anything else", and Jess Cartner-Morley says "fashion pages are not merely shopping lists", adding that "you can appreciate loveliness and beauty and design without owning it – isn't that rather the logic behind museums?" Yes it is, Jess, but you can't usually buy the items in a museum collection. Your argument is undercut by the fact that stockists and prices are listed with the items. I'll believe the fashion pages are nothing but a tribute to excellence in design when you dispense with that.
Worryingly, the readers' editor feels that these are "good and valid reasons". How about a click poll on your website to find out how many readers actually buy such expensive goods, and how many would rather see more accessible (and possibly fairer-traded) goods? Anyone who wants to worship at the temple of luxurious excess can always buy Vogue.
Gayle Wade
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• I find your fashion pages a constant source of entertainment (Cold – but still cool, G2, 1 February). I'm just grateful, as I walk my dog across fields in my jeans (I'm 72), wellies (a goner), parka (that's still OK, but no red nails), woolly gloves and scarf (appropriately tied), that there are no fashion police to point out my sartorial errors. The few people I meet seem similarly dressed. As Imogen Fox says, there are no style prizes for looking shivery.
Susan Eden
Denford, Northamptonshire
• Like many of my age, I bought my first pair of jeans in the 50s to use as alternative workwear to the boiler suit. For the next 57 years until now I always owned and wore at least one pair, for either work or casual use. It is therefore highly amusing to read that sections of today's "yoof", from the (sub-40?) Roger Newman Turner (Letters, 26 January) to the soi-disant fashion expert Ms Freeman (Ask Hadley, G2, 24 January), are the latest generation to be claiming proprietorial rights to jeans and dictating who should wear them. May I suggest that if they want to have any street cred at all they should stop wearing old men's fashion and find something more in keeping with their age? Onesies perhaps?
Stephen Goodwin
Holme, Cumbria
• I still wear jeans. But they are black, which allows me to wear them with my winter coat or my linen jacket in summer. Quite sartorial, really.
Alan Gent (aged 61¾)
Cheadle, Cheshire