You guys, there are "new rules of denim"! Now (March 18, 2010) "denim-on-denim is acceptable, provided you know what you're doing. (Yes, my April Details just arrived!) Yes, you me and Chris Pine and David Beckham and Bradley Cooper can wear the Canadian tuxedo. It's safe now. It's good. No, go on, you first. Also: "The easiest way to approach head-to-toe denim is to go for the chiaroscuro effect. Pair a chambray shirt with clean, inky jeans."
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Not for nothing, but I'm pretty sure the guys who are embracing this look a) have no clue what the fuck a "chambray" is, and b) don't understand why any of this is news.
That said, Chris Pine can wear all the denim he wants when he comes over to DO ME.
But they made it past "chiaroscuro" only to stumble at "chambray"?
It's just an added incentive to tear his clothes off.
Based on the context, you can tell that Chiaroscuro is obviously some kind of Italian fashion designer, but how can you wear a chambray if they don't tell you what it is??
@DoctorDisaster: There is no need for added incentive.
Saw an otherwise attractive man on the subway this morning doing this, and immediately thought, "Nope, still not OK."
I do this all the time, except I throw a denim vest, denim blazer and denim bow tie on as well and top it all off with a denim stove pipe.
I turned these wide-leg JNCOs into a long skirt based on a neat pattern I found in YM, and I really think it would make your look.
Holy Lord JNCOs. Forgot that they were making back pocket designs douchey back in the nineties.
Those pocket designs are an important consideration. When I add a JNCO skirt to my ensemble I don't want anything too weird. Something classy like a flaming dragon smoking a blunt please.
Also known as the "minimum security prison inmate" look.
Never agree to pick up your date by the side of the road after exchanging letters.
Denim on denim action is just not my thing. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I am by no means a fashion maven, but I think the Chris Pine thing actually works? It is dark enough to be neutral, matches like a suit, and it's all broken up by the white T-shirt. Everything else on the page is awful.
That said, I don't own any denim for above the waist, and I'm not about to run out and buy any because Details tells me to.
I agree with you, although I am not impartial on account of wanting Chris Pine to DO ME.
HANDS OFF!!! Kssss!
*goes for the eyes
If that disqualifies your opinion, I guess we'd all better shut up.
Surprisingly absent from the Details piece was the following: Think (fill in name of rugged + cool celebrity), not Jay Leno.
If anybody here ever sees me in a Chambray shirt, it's OK to kill me. It means I've given up.
I have a vintage (~1989!, one owner) Levi's denim shirt that is oh so soft and comfortable, though the cuff ends are starting to fray and the elbows are getting threadbare. I only wear it tucked-in my jorts, however, and never with a belt.
Jorts! 11-year-old me misses them.
I'm wearing a denim towel, and nothing else.
*call me
It's not just Details. The Guardian is also all hot n bothered about what they charmingly call "double denim." And their pic of a DD-sporting Beckham is much, much funnier. Is he about to stab someone?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/16/double-denim-david-beckham-fashion
As City_Dater pointed out above, yes he is -- IN THE EXERCISE YARD.
More importantly, is Details actually encouraging anyone to knot their tie so that both ends are visible like that? Because that looks frankly ridiculous, denim or no.
ha ha ha. "New." You're adorable.
I don't really have an opinion on the full-denim look... unless a denim cowboy hat is involved, and then my opinion is very, very strong!
It should be illegal to wear all denim with a denim cowboy hat, unless you are over 60 and drive a 1983 station wagon with bottle caps glued all over it and all the people in your town know you and refer to you as "the bottle cap man."
Wherever you go, people stop and wave and yell out, "Hey, it's the bottle cap man!," and you give them a short little cackle and a "howdy-do" in return. Yep, you're the kindly old bottle cap man. Everybody knows you. You wear all denim. Even your cowboy hat is denim!
Of course, the people in town don't know that your mobile home is filled top to bottom with empty pop bottles, old newspapers and cardboard. Or that late at night you sit on your broken couch, rocking slowly back and forth, silently weeping in front of an old TV while roaches pillage the final sips from your pop bottle kingdom.
What do the bottle caps signify? "Signify?" What do they mean? "I don't rightly know," you told the reporter from the local network affiliate. "I just collect 'em and one day started gluin' 'em to the Chevy." You stood outside in front of your trailer while she asked questions. The cameraman made you move the station wagon closer to the front door, out of the shade. You didn't let them see inside.
What about the all denim look? "I just like it," you told her. And the hat? "I got the hat 'cause it matched. Found it at a truck stop."
Yeah, I don't really have an opinion on the full-denim look, but if a denim cowboy hat is involved I think I know where it's headed.
Speaking of...
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/img/pix/britney090101_254x450.jpg
When I was studying abroad in Switzerland, my Eastern European Politics professor was this incredibly stern taskmaster type from Poland who looked almost exactly what I imagined Pilate looked like 2,000 years ago. The only chink in his armor, though, was that he periodically wore a denim suit. Yes, with dress shirt and tie.
So every time this guy intimidated little insecure 20-year-old me, I tried to remind myself that hey, this guy isn't All That...he wears a fucking denim suit fer pete's sake!
I don't think this guy is now bottle cap man, but you never know...
Okay this is weird because today in the student paper there was a whole profile of our bottle cap man. Seriously. The only denim he's wearing in the picture is a pair of jeans, though.
The Denim Dynamo is always a fashion don't.
People will point and laugh at you, like this: Bwahahahahaha!
The rule used to be (and by "used to be," I mean "during the Ford administration") that you could wear a denim jacket with jeans but! only! if the two denims were such clearly different fades that no one could possibly conjecture that they were matching.
Admittedly, this was an era when hippies coexisted with leisure suits (of which, by the way, I owned one, of denim if you must know, and I ended up giving the jacket to Goodwill and keeping the pants which were actually pretty cool jeans in a high-waisted, flared leg kind of way) and only trashy straight white people wore condoms, so it was a lifetime ago, or more, but I still don't think denim-denim is ready for a comeback.
Now that I think of it, I was in the chorus of a dinner theater production of Oklahoma! about 1975*, and I was wearing a chambray shirt and jeans and I don't remember making a big thing about it, so maybe it was sort of okay back then.
No, in fact Nixon resigned on the opening night of the show, so it was 1974: oh, what a beautiful mornin' indeed!
Denim is a versatile fabric.
Denim seats in my AMC Gremlin
Denim? I don't even know 'im!
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We called this look "The Waltham Sandwich".