We can only wear blue jeans to work on Fridays, and then, according to our dress code, the jeans have to be "neat, clean, and in good repair."
I have no problem with this. But I did notice, on my way to work a few Fridays ago, that ten years of wear (and a little help from some rodents) have pushed my pants outside the dress code.
So, shopping time. While at the beach I hit the Levi's outlet, where the size marked on the clothes bears no resemblence to the actual size of the clothes. I was also a little surprised by how many styles of brand-new jeans were not only not neat or in good repair, but they didn't even look clean. Then again, I'm old enough the remember when "prewashed" (instead of the stiff, dark blue denim) was a new way to buy them.
I found a pair of 501s that will, in a year or so, be perfect, but I'm still mourning the loss of the other jeans. I thought I was pretty shallow to be doing so, but the Post ran a couple of articles this week that made me feel much better about myself: Tres Cheek: The Denim Mystique and The Tao of Denim: If It's Not Worn, You Have Nothing On.
People pay hundreds of dollars for jeans. Parents allow their kids to buy more than a dozen pairs of jeans. People pay somebody else to turn new jeans into jeans that are no longer neat, clean, and in good repair:
The jeans have various holes and worn spots that Mauro has designed and executed through hours of labor with a palm sander, stitch remover and dental pick. Angie is pleased. She takes them home and wears them out at night. She says they look good with sequins.
Hmm. Perhaps I'll start a jeans-distressing business...I can finally get the rats to earn their keep.
Posted by Nic at August 20, 2005 08:53 AM | TrackBackWould sequined jeans be considered business casual, then? ;) As long as the ass isn't missing or something, I really don't see why not!
Posted by: dawn at August 27, 2005 12:38 AM