President Bartlet's Jeans

Worn with a plain sweatshirt during a late-night stroll, emphasizing off-duty ease.

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Purpose

Casual trousers intended for off-duty wear and comfort during informal moments.

Significance

Functions as a focal costume piece that underlines presidential normalcy while triggering procedural security response; the jeans mark the emotional pivot from private ease to institutional alertness and foreshadow tightened operational measures.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

1 moments

S1E2 · Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Portico Walk — 'Eagle's By' (Casuality Meets Protocol)

The jeans reinforce the visual of domestic ease. Their ordinary texture amplifies the contrast between personal ease and the immediately responsive security detail, making clothing an implicit signal that prompts the agent's terse communication.

Before: Worn by the President, casually fitted and showing normal wear.

After: Physically unchanged; narratively they become part of the visual cue that precipitates tightened protocol.

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