I really don’t make things easy for myself. I’ll make it clear and say that I’m absolutely NOT a jeans person. People will cry ‘Sacre Bleu!’ but I’m sorry to say that anything that requires frustrating trials in the changing room, studying length, drop, bum/thigh scrutiny etc, takes the joy out of shoppping for clothes for me. However, I have embarked upon a quest and it won’t be plain sailing that’s for sure. Wet-look or metallic jeans are cruising in for AW07-8 as the replacement for coloured jeans. Topshop have taken advantage by offering disco silver jeans and also some wet look skinny versions.
However, I thought to myself, if I was going to embark on my first jeans quest in a long time, I wanted it to be a bit more challenging and hopefully in the end more rewarding. Topshop’s wet-look jeans would be an easy option given the price, the availability but then again, the tradeoff is that there would be the inevitable ubiquity.
So whilst looking over the shoulders of the boyf when I banish him away to my other computer to go websurf whilst I’m busy Style Bubbling, I caught sight of these Dior Homme jeans on Luisa Viaroma (don’t question the incessant browsing on that site….). Ok, so wearing mens jeans is nothing new and slender Parisian girls with legs that go on forever swear by Dior Homme’s straight legged fit. But there lies the problem and the challenge. The DH show models tend to be on the emaciated side and I always feel like I want to feed them some fat chunky sandwiches. I, on the other hand, am far from emaciated and eat a lot of fat chunky sandwiches (salt beef and gherkin with lots of English mustard please…).
The blue Sharp Notation Dior Homme jeans
The black Sharp Notation Dior Homme jeans
To up the challenge even more, I’m not even going to bother trying them on and in a foolhardy cocky way, I’m just gonna plonk that online order and hope for the best, with the backup being the ability to return them. This is kind of like the denim version of me throwing all my toys out of the pram, saying ‘Right, jeans are despicable to find and buy so I REALLY REALLY like the look of these ones which are probably not even made for my body or build but I’m going to just go for it anyway.’ It’s like playing the hardest Shostakovich piece badly and not really caring. This is the spoilt me coming out and just saying ‘Fuck it. Just give me the DH’s and let’s be over and done with it all. If they don’t fit, so be it. If they do, then ker-ching!’.
Right, the wrought angry-with-denim me has had her rant. Now I’ll just pray my way into the jeans and plan on pairing them with killer shoes (not much point in plonking down that money if not to play up the highest of feminine/masculine contrasts), sharply cut jackets and tops.
(Yes I do realise my legs will be in no way as elongated as this…. )
i haven’t worn jeans in over three years.
that is no lie.
good luck to you susie, as you take on this challenging endeavour…
I’m an art nerd, and was shocked to find out Damien Hirst is designing jeans now.
http://www.luxist.com/2007/07/20/worlds-most-expensive-living-artist-turns-jeans-designer/
what do you think?
I gotta say – I swear by black wet look jeans now. I have reached an age where I feel I can’t carry off skinny blue or coloured denim anymore (I had my red Rich & Skinnies for all of about a week before I decided this!).
Wet look makes my thighs look slimmer and they actually look good when they go a bit slouchy and baggy, whereas normal denim always just looks bad with baggy knees.
Luckily no-one where I live will touch them with someone else’s, so I should avoid the “ubiquity”!
oh no, you almost certainly have to try them on. I work at Fornarina, we have tons of denim, styles vary from season to styles, and you can be different sizes. you cant know which one looks better until you try others on! but maybe youll have some great luck and theyll look perfect. which by your fate, probably will.
Ooh you’re brave Susie. Good luck with them!
I am not a jean person neither. But the idea of a pair of Dior Homme’s tempts me. Everybody says they fit so well…
jeans are tricky, but i’m working them back into my wardrobe but i remain dress obsessed. i think you would look great in colored denim!!!
I second the Susie in colored denim idea! Tripp’s purple or blk and white stripe pairs are covetable!
Oh my god I tried on the wet look Dior Homme’s in Paris and they are absolutely amazing. Alas I didn’t have the Euros to buy them. Currently saving the shillings for a shiny black pair. They will look fantastic on you, no doubts. Good luck with them honey!
Do let us know how you get on with them…
as a jeans addict who absolutely hates the act of trying them on and shopping for them, I think you’re going to find they fit like sin. what looks good on a rack could fit horribly if you don’t try them on, I’ve made the mistake many times, and I think you’d be a lot happier having tried them on.
not on topic by any stretch of the imagination (except you could buy denim there…) but I thought you would care that the pineal eye has closed down!
seemingly overnight too. wow. we’re very glad we haven’t make the dresses they’d ordered yet…
first steinberg, now this.
love,
Alex.
ah man… i never wore jeans until, they started putting lycra in them… but you know, i hardly think you would wear jeans like everyone else, so just think of them as any other trouser…. i think it’s when people wear the same pair of jeans as a a staple that it gets tired.
i highly doubt that would ever happen to you!
; )
MissHoax: Yay, to my fellow jeans-fearer!
Lori: I’m intrigued/bewildered…
DJM: Yeah, I’m hoping for that bunched up knees thing with the DH ones…
Eli & Anon: I’ve reached the point with jeans that if I tried on another pair in a changing room, I’ll scream so this time, I’m just gonna chance it…
Emily & Melanie: I did the coloured denim thing but not bright colours… Uniqlo skinnies in dark green and brick red…. loved those.
Ali: Save up those shillings! I KNOW they’d look great on you!
Alex: Seriously? Is it closed closed already or will it be closing soon? Shit… I’m shocked!
Lady Coveted: Jeans? Staple? Never…
Dior Homme? Good luck, Susie…and IMO, if the jeans can’t fit girls who are (as you look to be) a UK size 8, then methinks they demand too much skinniness!
And I thought I was the only one who did this kind of badly-played Shosta shopping (well-played with that line).
I hope it works out, if not, okay, jeans were never your style anyway.
Mili
I hope the Dior Homme’s work out.
I really desire a pair of black waxed jeans.
There is a pair online (from a brand that I won’t say on a web site I won’t name, just because I’m terrified it would spur someone with the same size as me to buy them) that I check on daily to see if the $200 price tag (okay $198) has been marked significantly down.
………….:)