I thought to
myself about a month ago that there seemed to be a denim epidemic happening on
the streets of Melbourne. And I consciously thought, ‘No – don’t blog on them,
surely they will go away!’ Say it isn’t so. It’s airborne. This trend seems
only to have just begun.
Coloured jeans
haven’t just popped up overnight, as a short jaunt down Chapel St would have us
believe. Ksubi recycled the trend at least a few years ago, with a fresh take,
but their multicoloured styles were kept under the radar in comparison to the
rainbow of block colours we’re subjected to at the moment.
At first I thought
it was nice, the block colour trend. What’s not to love about a bright pop of
green to a regular ensemble, or a two tone t-shirt to liven up an everyday
jeans, tee and jacket combination?
That was until I
realized, about a week ago that you actually can’t walk down the street without
every Jill, Lucy and Harry sporting jeans in colours that are causing
irreversible retinal damage.
My least favourite
- strangely because they sit close in the colour chart to my top pick - are
red. Fire engine red jeans. They offend me.
People, please don’t wear them. They don’t look good. On anyone. Ever.
Except Giselle, and even she would only wear them once for fun.
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| Painful, right? |
My very favourite,
with a nod to the hipsters of the North who will argue they started the trend a
while ago, along with facial hair and rolled cigarettes, is the burgundy
variety. The sole reason these ones work, and red ones don’t is the level of
versatility. Burgundy is an earthy enough tone to wear down the street at
midday and not look like you stepped off the set of Playschool. What’s more, is
that you can team it with black, camel or khaki and you’re not assaulting
anybody’s visual senses. The jury’s still out on teaming burgundy with white,
when it doubt go cream or bone. White can be a little too white sometimes, you
know?
You can apply this
theory to most colours, the darker the shade the better they’ll look, and the
higher the likelihood will be that you can slot them into your current wardrobe
without too much fuss. The best thing too, is that they look better on men than
on women and when a trend rolls around, especially one of a denim variety
that’s relatively androgynous, it could very well be here to stay.
Verdict: you can’t
go wrong with a colour that was named after wine. But keep the grass greens,
pinks, cobalt blues, and revolting reds where they belong: on shoes, bags and
cocktail rings.
G. x
