Degree of Difficulty – Colored Denim
Refinery29 claims pre-school blue is the color of the season this winter. I swore it was the color of the season last winter though – I have a side-button sweater and a short-sleeve sweatshirt from around then as my personal proof. Either way, these new, bluer-than-blue jeans caught my eye at Club Monaco a few weeks ago.
They no longer had my exact size in stock, but the jeans were seductively 80% off of their original price, so I didn’t feel the need to be a real stickler as far as fit was concerned.
Granted, as far as colored denim goes, this Smurfy blue isn’t too precarious to pull off compared to electric yellow or acid green. But now that I’ve laundered my true-blue pair in hot water for maximum shrinkage, toughened them up with a thermal top and a wool knit hat, and worn them sheepishly in public twice…I’ve decided when it comes to even a tiny fashion risk that a good fit isn’t a luxury…it’s a necessity.
Overall Degree of Difficulty, based on color alone: a lazy little 3.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I like those shoes ! What are they ?
April 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
They’re just some vintage wingtips I got at a thrift store this summer.
I just peeked inside them and the brand name is Oakwoods. Never heard of them, but I like the shoes. The leather isn’t too dull or too pebbly, the tongue doesn’t have a saw-tooth edge either, which I like.
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:46 am
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