Down Size Denim’s Dominance

When it comes to crazy, outdated fashion, I can appreciate the goofiness of it all.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?

For example, the combo of stonewashed jeans combined with button down denim jackets, that’s a deal breaker. It’s the 1990s American television wardrobe default when you think about it. All those sitcoms like “Step by Step” or “Full House” featured their characters decked out in denim. Even Jerry Seinfeld wears a less than flattering combination of a denim jacket over a solid-colored sweater tucked into his tight fitting Levis.

I’d say the deadly denim combo was close to making a comeback around the emergence of Hip-hop mogul pet projects of Sean Combs and Jay-Z: Sean John and Rocawear. What they did was took tight-fitting denim and simply loosened it up…a lot. Baggy jeans with baggy denim jackets were a big hit in the early years of the new millennium. It has since dropped out of style, but funk master Sly Stone was recently seen sporting the outfit at this year’s Coachella music festival. He even added a denim baseball hat! Should have stuck to the bell-bottoms, Sly.

Let’s get this straight, I’m not trying to trash denim. I have a decent collection of denim lying around that I still love to wear. I will never, however, put my stonewashed jeans together with my Levi’s jean jacket. Those days are over.

It might have worked in the 90s, but today, people should 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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