Fashion Blog

Tired of people wearing bad denim? Who isn’t?  Well, now there’s a forum for you to register your distaste.  RateMyDenim.com was introduced on one of my favorite sites, Denimology, today. It’s a fun new site where you can vote on how bad or good a featured jean-wearer is and, if your so inclined (and brave!) you can even upload your own photo for an appraisal.  I don’t think I’m quite their yet, but it’s pretty fun to be on the other side.

Check it out!

See the latest denim styles here.  

This morning on Denimology, I read about PimpMyJeans. com, a site dedicated to bedazzling denim. At PimpMyJeans, you can send in your own pair or buy new ones from them ($72) and then the customizing begins. They’ll shorten your jeans for you, make them into a skirt, dip them in bleach, stencil them, take an airbrush to them, encrust them with rhinestones, attach ribbons to them, patch them up, stamp them, trim them with feathers, and a myriad of other strange things. Their “Custom Product of the Month” appears to the right.  Hmmm.

I have to say that none of that sounds appealing to me, but I know some people will embrace the service, and I applaud PMJ’s entrepreneurial spirit. I am really concerned about the heat transfers, though:

Now I love a good fashion risk, but I don’t believe these striped jeans by Cheap Monday (featured on Denimology) would qualify as such. Inspired by the 60s, they’re proof that some trends from past eras need not resurface. And maybe I’m prejudice, but multi-colored vertical stripes almost always equal silly to me. I can’t even imagine a way to make them work…maybe tucked into boots… as cutoff shorts…hemmed to Capri-length? Sigh, I just don’t know, and I don’t think they’re worth the effort. It would really take a special person to pull ‘em off.

If you think you’re the one person who might look good in these, be my guest: they’re only $57.14 at caliroots.com.