When it comes to crazy, outdated fashion, I can appreciate the goofiness of it all. I love 80s crop tops, high socks, bright neon colors, ripped up leather jackets or even sports jackets with shoulder pads. But next to wearing Insane Clown Posse apparel, I just don't understand the appeal of denim on denim. Why do people like this stuff?
I'm specifically talking about stonewashed jeans with button down denim jackets (among other denim faux pas'). It is the quintessential 1990s American television wardrobe default. Think about it. All those sitcoms like "Full House" or "Growing Pains" featured their characters rocking too much denim. Even George Costanza of our beloved "Seinfeld" is seen in a few episodes wearing a less than flattering combination of a denim jacket over a solid-colored sweater tucked into his oversize Wrangler's.
In the early 2000s, Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs and Jay-Z brought back some double denim ideas with their respective clothing lines. They took the tight-fitting denim look and loosened it up, put some sag in there, and made the smallest size an XL. Baggy jeans with baggy denim jackets were a big hit in the early years of the new millennium but have since dropped out of style. I recently saw funk guru Sly Stone at Coachella music festival and he was recently seen sporting a denim on denim outfit He even added a denim baseball hat! Should have stuck to the Afro with the headband, Sly.
I'm not trying to trash denim. I have my fair collection of stonewashed jeans and I may even have a Levi's jean jacket lying around somewhere. I will never, however, put those two together. Those days are over.
It's time for people to know better. Denim works well with lots of other clothes, there's no need to match it with more of the same!
I'm specifically talking about stonewashed jeans with button down denim jackets (among other denim faux pas'). It is the quintessential 1990s American television wardrobe default. Think about it. All those sitcoms like "Full House" or "Growing Pains" featured their characters rocking too much denim. Even George Costanza of our beloved "Seinfeld" is seen in a few episodes wearing a less than flattering combination of a denim jacket over a solid-colored sweater tucked into his oversize Wrangler's.
In the early 2000s, Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs and Jay-Z brought back some double denim ideas with their respective clothing lines. They took the tight-fitting denim look and loosened it up, put some sag in there, and made the smallest size an XL. Baggy jeans with baggy denim jackets were a big hit in the early years of the new millennium but have since dropped out of style. I recently saw funk guru Sly Stone at Coachella music festival and he was recently seen sporting a denim on denim outfit He even added a denim baseball hat! Should have stuck to the Afro with the headband, Sly.
I'm not trying to trash denim. I have my fair collection of stonewashed jeans and I may even have a Levi's jean jacket lying around somewhere. I will never, however, put those two together. Those days are over.
It's time for people to know better. Denim works well with lots of other clothes, there's no need to match it with more of the same!
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