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Who here does not do the jacket/jeans look?

_ML_

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Originally Posted by DocHolliday
I don't do it. I don't find denim very comfortable, so I don't wear it often, preferring khakis, cords and patterned wool trou for casual purposes.

Even if I did wear denim more, I don't like how it pairs with tailored coats. I don't hate it on others, just don't find it very interesting for me, personally.


+1 I'm 37 and don't own a single pair of jeans, haven't for years. The most casual I go is a pair of Brooks Brothers khakis or cords and a casual button down shirt (Zegna, Hickey Freeman, Robert Talbott).
 

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I have to say I'm amazed by the number of people who don't have a single pair of jeans. I have two stacks. One of nice pairs, one of pairs for working on cars, painting, ect.
 

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I don't, not to say that it dosent work though. I just don't wear jeans that much ever really and find no plce for the look in my wardrobe but it looks fine on other men.
 

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Originally Posted by DocHolliday
I'm not an old dude, but I still don't dig it. It doesn't look bad, but I can't recall thinking it looked really good, either. It's just there.

As way of generational evidence, Cruiser loves it, IIRC.


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All you people who are aghast at the idea of wearing jeans are missing a bet. The great thing about jeans-- and I speak of new ones, not old, faded and/or pre-destroyed ones -- is that they continue to look pretty much like they did when you put them on, regardless of what you do to them.

I have, for example, pretty much given up flying in anything but jeans and an OCBD. They don't wrinkle. They don't crease. You can sweat in them, spill things on them, sit in things with them and they still look OK. Next time you fly, look around for someone wearing khakis. If they've been flying all day, they start to look like refugees.

And wearing a jacket with jeans -- though not a tie -- is perfectly OK, too. So long as it's a casual jacket. By casual, I mean casual in its more commonly understood sense. People who argue that blazers are, technically speaking, casual wear aren't fooling anybody.
 

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Casual dress day at work or just going out on the town with BB Khakis or Cords (which I mostly wear on casual days -- 8 Wale corduroy fabric) with daily wearing doesn't equate to a refugee look. The wrinkles are to a minimum in general. Yes, jeans wrinkle less, but it's just not the look I wish to portrait.
 

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I can say, with more than a small degree of pride, that I have never once in my life worn a pair of jeans.
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To me, the argument that jeans are good because you can do things in them which would otherwise mess up one's clothes without it showing is like saying that you should drive a Ford Taurus because even after you wreck it, it'll still look much as it did right off the assembly line...

Perhaps it's true that they won't look any worse, but even at their best, they still leave much to be desired.
 

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The thing I hate about the situation with jeans is not the garment itself but the way you're expected to wear them at least part of the time. I mean if you never or rarely wear them, some people tend to ask "don't you ever wear jeans?" It's pretty ******* annoying. Wear jeans if you want to just don't push it down someone else's throat. I suspect that people are afraid you don't believe in democracy, lol.

There are some nice jeans, but what's with all that ugly artificial damage? I don't want to wear a garment that has deliberate fading, artificial holes, and fake wrinkles all over it. Talk about bad taste.

Sure, there are some handsome jeans out there, in a medium-slim cut and without any fake damage, but they really seem to be few and far between... oh, also, wearing jeans in hot weather is just daft.
 

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I wear a single breasted blazer, white shirt, a striped tie, levi's 501's and a pair of Berluti loafers to go with it. I got the inspiration from Bernhard Roetzel's G.G.
 

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Originally Posted by Modern Dandy
I can say, with more than a small degree of pride, that I have never once in my life worn a pair of jeans.
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Good for you.
 

clee1982

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Have 3 pair of jeans all bought for less than 20 dollar each, not particular comfortable I have to say, so that's why I usually skip jeans (or maybe I just bought all the ****** jeans there is). I do wear the sportscoat+jeans look to club once so often, flies pretty well in my age range.
 

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I do it! at 24 its tough to be 'dressed up' on the weekends without getting 50 questions about where you were that day that required you to dress up.
 

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I don't think in all my years I've ever met a person who didn't own a pair of jeans so it is pretty interesting to learn there are many who don't. For what it is worth, I don't own a single item from Brooks Brothers and doubt I ever will.
 

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Originally Posted by Modern Dandy
To me, the argument that jeans are good because you can do things in them which would otherwise mess up one's clothes without it showing is like saying that you should drive a Ford Taurus because even after you wreck it, it'll still look much as it did right off the assembly line...

But you certainly don't want to drive your Countach in Bangkok, either.
 

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Originally Posted by Modern Dandy

To me, the argument that jeans are good because you can do things in them which would otherwise mess up one's clothes without it showing is like saying that you should drive a Ford Taurus because even after you wreck it, it'll still look much as it did right off the assembly line...


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