white jeans

WebinTheWorld

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/style/white-jeans-men-denim.html

Is wearing white jeans a sign of privilege or assumed privilege. I think so. What do you think?

ElQuintron

WebinTheWorld I just read the article, and the implication was contrivance, not privilege.

That being said, I’m a bit of a show-off, so my attitude is if you can pull it off, then go with it.

telcodad

WebinTheWorld Is wearing white jeans a sign of privilege or assumed privilege.

ElQuintron I just read the article, and the implication was contrivance, not privilege.

Yeah, just don’t wear them after Labor Day: 🙂

Why Can’t You Wear White After Labor Day?
By Elise Taylor, Vogue - September 1, 2023
https://www.vogue.com/article/wearing-white-after-labor-day

JRB-Ware

WebinTheWorld I think so.

Explain why you think so. Illuminate us.

MacLeech

JRB-Ware Unprivileged folk tend to have the squirts and can’t safely wear white jeans.

The only white jeans I liked were on Luke in Star Wars.

HooRU

I sit in the grass too much. In fact, I have to sit down everywhere.

egeezer

House painters wear white. Maybe the yuppies identify with them.

urbanriot

WebinTheWorld

Is wearing white jeans a sign of privilege or assumed privilege

Nobody thinks this in the summer, it’s just another color of pants in the closet.

Thane_Bitter

WebinTheWorld Amazing that someone has that much time to ponder the aspects of fashion rather than worry about affordability, practicality, and common fucking sense. Some one should ask Vanesa what she things of gold medallions’ and appliqués to walls, and golden trinkets peppered around a rental property - sheek or tacky?

Somewhat-Reticent

Paywall Clickbait aside, white should reject more heat; stain resistance helps.

egeezer

Thane_Bitter

Thane_Bitter ponder the aspects of fashion rather than worry about affordability, practicality, and common fucking sense.

Yep, some people get all riled up about the silliest things. 😉

WebinTheWorld

urbanriot it’s just another color of pants in the closet.

Or it can be a dog whistle for privilege

ElQuintron

WebinTheWorld Or it can be a dog whistle for privilege

That’s a reach, they’re pants. You can argue they look good or bad, or even dated, but it’s not like white denim is freshly killed fur or some other obscenity

g121

I tend to suspect the intentions of folks who post on multiple accounts ..

Guy54435

This thread is beyond ridiculous.

MacLeech

WebinTheWorld Or it can be a dog whistle for privilege

Since you originally brought it up, what privilege do YOU think they imply?

egeezer

This topic is mildly entertaining.
I remember wearing white tennis shorts, shirts and shoes when we were living in Boca Raton. I was a crappy tennis player but the outfit was comfortable in hot weather.

Now my go-to are 5.11 cotton canvas shorts and pants, and either polos or any of the dozens of T-shirts I collected in my travels, birthdays and Christmases. Windbreakers, A2 flight jacket, a Marmot rain jacket and one of the dozens of ball caps in my collection pretty much part of my daily wardrobe. Depending on the occasion, western shirt, bolo tie, boot cut jeans and old comfy Tony Lama boots.
Shoes: Sperry Docksiders, SAS loafers and LL Bean day hikers.

Suits, ties, wingtips all gather dust in the back of my closet.

takeahike

WebinTheWorld

Forever In Blue Jeans – Neil Diamond

broknsymetry

Remember acid washed Levi’s?

Donoreo

broknsymetry Remember acid washed Levi’s?

No, I do not recall ever seeing Levis in acid wash, but lots of other brands.