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All this studding, zips and rips demands a softer side of shine, a counterpoint, for when the fetish and bondage looks just aren't going to cut it. Slightly deco, geometric and all-over flapper-style sequinning make bleached, tie-dyed and marbled jeans a bit more easily accessible. Pixie Market Leopard Sequin bomber jacket Siwy sequin jeans Ksubi sequin tank dress Never Denim jeans
Ramones. Suzi Quattro. Black leather. Silver studs. Blue denim. Black denim. Blue suede.
I dislike the generic 'military' designation for a trend; see also 'nautical' and 'safari', which is basically wheeled out every winter/summer season as applicable with a page in a magazine with some random jackets with frogging and braid. I do love the pared down 1940's mens accessories that remind me of a grandfather's dressing table though: generally cufflinks, the odd missing brass button, perhaps a picture of his father in WW1 uniform.
Like getting into a freshly made bed with cool cool sheets. Simplicity personified. Tiny shell buttons. Thick mother of pearl buttons. Utterly classic.
Trawling Colette (as you do), and found these jeans and shirts by French label Bleu de Paname. I believe they are a new brand, and Paname is apparently a slang word for Paris. Updated workwear, 'made hand' as Colette would have it, and made in France naturellement. I have fallen in love with their use of stripe. They would go very neatly with the pair of Nike Air Max that I saw the other day, also in a shirting stripe (the Micro Stripe collection), which I have kindly pictured for you below.The whole thing is reminding me a little bit of a boy I used to love, in about 1993. Air Max were totally the thing, and you couldn't get the good ones in England, so I think he got his friend to bring some back from New York. Being a little bit younger, I didn't know what the cool trainers were, so to me, Air Max are always trainers for cool boys now. And if you added a navy v-neck and the Bleu de Paname striped shirt to the jeans & trainers ensemble, there you would have the boy I loved. Possibly not casting him in the best light, now I think about it...
Harper's Bazaar has a great mood board selection of the best pale denim and leather fashion. They've chosen Suzi Quattro, which certainly challenges my claim that Mel Gibson rocks this trend the best (or would, if they'd just put Max in jeans rather than head to toe leather). Set aside the eyewatering designer items, and this is a combination whose time has definitely come.
Who knew that a bedazzler could make things look so cool. I think these are pretty old images, but they surfaced recently on le fashion and they are amazing. Much like with the hardcore hardwear stuff, it seems that no denim will be complete without some serious metal action.
I saw Denim Demon at BBB in January, and they looked more like slinky skinnies than heritage worn denims, although some cool check shirts were in evidence. Do people in Scandinavia wear anything else?
However, this is an interesting article about their project to get authentic wear patterns to follow in the laundry by giving the jeans to Samis to wear during their work. It's an effort to both reconnect their jeans with the workwear spirit, and build some honest local heritage into their jeans in a way that isn't always open to non-American or non-Japanese brands.
However, the article is kind of long, and I'm not going to lie, I just kind of love this belt for a detailing idea.
There's lots more to come, but I just wanted to post a sense of the types of hunting/fishing gear that your trad workwear dressing entails. What's so lovely is that each company has a thorough history of production geared to quality and practicality. As an interesting aside, I don't think this is only the domain of those over 25. I was at a music festival in the summer and you couldn't move for 17 year old boys in old Barbours.
All pictures, (and much more knowledge!), courtesy of Archival Clothing.
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