![]() ![]() (Generally speaking, layers should get thicker the further away they get from your body, and vice versa.)Īs with a tailored blazer, your denim jacket should be slim fitting if you want to wear it under an overcoat. If the latter’s too sheer and sheeny, there might be a dissonance with the rough, tough denim too chunky and your jacket might appear insubstantial by comparison. But before you knit up, consider your denim jacket’s finish, whether pristine indigo or battered stonewash, and how that metaphorically stitches together with your jumper. ![]() ![]() Or opt for a relaxed fit, a cropped length or turn-ups.Īnywhere you can wear a shirt, you can rock a roll neck. Likewise, you could pull your trousers down a notch in formality with a more substantial, nubby material that’s closer to denim on the spectrum. That could be by jacking your jacket up in smartness with an unwashed dark denim, plus minimal bells and whistles such as contrast stitching or rivets. ![]() Similar to the shirt and tie, it helps if you can minimise the seeming discord between your casual jacket and smart trousers. Avoid the brash logos of streetwear’s latest drops and stick to a navy or grey marl under a blue denim jacket. Keep the colours neutral and don’t go too boxy with the fit of the hoodie. A hoodie is a natural sparring partner for a denim jacket because they’re both low-key, chuck-on weekend staples. This combo is a fallback for any menswear blogger attempting to look vaguely urban. N.B., even if your denim jacket isn’t overly faded, it’s still way more informal than any tailored equivalent, so may not be SFW at your place of employment. Make the partnership less what-the-hell by dialling down the dressiness of the other elements to bring them more in line with your decidedly casual trucker: a button-down Oxford instead of a stiff-coloured poplin a knitted tie instead of woven silk chinos instead of tailored trousers (although they can work too – see below). But that said, he is Canadian, so may possess a home country advantage. It’s not like double, indistinguishably dark denim can’t ever be done, mind: we seem to recall Ryan Gosling looking fairly badass in Drive. But like Wesley Snipes having a cheeky flutter on the Rugby World Cup, always bet on black.Ī shade more difficult than black jeans, but still not that hard, unwashed indigo denim will stand much less of a chance of optically bleeding into a lighter and/or distressed denim jacket than lighter and/or distressed jeans, for reasons that should hopefully be apparent from reading this sentence. Other colours of jeans can do the same trick: grey, for one, and even white, although that presents its own pitfalls, not to mention impracticalities. But for a fail-safe way to splice jeans, black and blue is hard to beat. It can also be very, very bad: see Justin Timberlake in your nightmares. Style historians don’t record athleisure as having been a key trend in the Old West.ĭouble denim can be doubly good even if you flagrantly transgress the ‘distinct shades’ rule: see Martin Sheen in Badlands. This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule (there aren’t many of those left in menswear) but you’re probably best to steer clear of cowboy details on your denim jacket. But it provides a degree of structure to offset the softness of your joggers, as well as more prosaically just not being another piece of jersey, thereby saving you from having to go full tracksuit or ‘Tesco tuxedo’. Whoever called the white tee a basic was wrong.Ī denim jacket doesn’t exactly fall under the category of sportswear, unless you’re a rodeo rider. Its success largely hinges on finding the perfect white tee, which can be a Goldilocks-ian quest: not too slim, not too baggy not too translucent, not too bulletproof not too “gunny”, not too modest not too much like a dress, not too much like a crop-top not so high on the neck so that it’s an undershirt-cum-garotte, not so low that it’s a clavicle-exposing deep-U. A crisp but fuss-free look, it’s not quite as easy as you might think. This is another classic pairing enshrined in Americana. Add a white T-shirt (see below) and you’re Don Draper at the weekend. Their military history and typically utilitarian cotton-twill fabric nevertheless make them a dependable denim ally the original khaki – technically a colour, not a style – is a classic pairing. They can be smart, with formalising features such as pleats, creases and a tab closure, but they can also be casual. You’re effectively wearing jeans on your top half, and you know that double denim is dangerous territory. ![]()
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