It’s casual, of course, but it’s not just for wearing out on the range. Denim is proving its value as a classic fabric, one that’s adaptable to night-clubbing and fine dining and comes back season after season. Add the feature that it is washable, and you have a clothing selection that augments anyone’s wardrobe.
Victoria Beckham’s new collection “Victoria Beckham Denim” appeared at Bergdorf Goodman in New York this February with rolled-up jeans. Compare this with a different take on the design from London in 2005 showing another version of rolled-up jeans. Everything comes and goes.
Victoria Beckham’s new collection “Victoria Beckham Denim” appeared at Bergdorf Goodman in New York this February with rolled-up jeans. Compare this with a different take on the design from London in 2005 showing another version of rolled-up jeans. Everything comes and goes.
Denim has shown up in fashion for years in various lengths, short shorts, and skirts as in this design from the Richard Tyler Spring 1996 fashion collection in New York. It is a blue silk denim, top-stitched, double-breasted reefer over a shorts jumpsuit. There is also this belted jumpsuit from the Frankie B Fashion Show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in March 2004 in Culver City.
Stretching to the other extreme are floor-length designs back in 1999 and again in 2002. One is by Oscar de la Renta, a denim double-faced gown in the fashion show in September 1999, at the Fashion Week Spring 2000 Collections in New York. And the other, a cream/blue cotton floral beaded top and indigo denim skirt at the Ralph Lauren Spring 2003 fashion show in New York in September 2002. In long styles, denim has a nice fall to it, rivaling more pricey designer skirts. It shapes gently to the body, enhancing rather than hugging the wearer’s shape.
Back in the 1800s, who would have thought when miners began buying Levi Strauss overalls and blue jeans for their utilitarian benefits that 150 years later, couples would be wearing jeans to dinner on a Friday night date or even to a red carpet event? The fabric transcends labeling of “formal” and “casual” and appears almost any place.
Denim is so classic that the clothing transcends seasons and even decades. A 1983 Chanel white denim mid-calf suit with a purse on a long chain is shown alongside the stone-washed jeans with a long-strapped purse that was worn in London this February by Nicola Roberts, who looks perfectly timely.
A practical and more feminine alternative to jeans is the basic knee-length denim skirt, which looks sharp year after year, as in this style from Kenneth Cole Fall shown in 2002 and straighter variation worn by Victoria Silvstedt in Fall 2008.
Different versions of denim harem pants have walked down the runway in different years, but the look is again similar to 2003 and 2007.
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