Double Denim

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The Lord Of All Denim.

You mean you don´t know what Double Denim is? To be honest, I didn´t either until I read the Financial Times “How to Spend It” supplement which is an obscene tribute to today´s materialistic society. Basically it means wearing a denim shirt with a pair of denim jeans. What´s the big deal? Well there´s more to it than that. Read on.

“If clothing is communication, what does double denim say about its wearer? When Brad Pitt struts into view in Thelma & Louise, decked out in a loose denim shirt tucked into blue jeans, his attire speaks of irreverence and a free spirit. When Ryan Gosling dresses in a denim jacket and jeans in Drive, he’s playing the neighbourhood nice guy (though his leather driving gloves hint at a darker side). In Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal’s denim shirt and jeans signal both his belonging in the macho world of the American West and his sexuality (double denim is a signifier for the queer community). Over time, it’s become recognised as a look that represents freedom.”

Even more to enlighten us single denimites who are still single denim reactionaries.

“Our customer wants that unique, hard-to-find denim that will set them apart,” says Joe Brunner, menswear buyer at Browns. “We’re seeing the fashion items perform better than the more traditional, everyday pieces.” He notes that as well as seeing the look across the larger houses, young designers such as Stefan Cooke, Casablanca and Bethany Williams are also picking up the trend, “pushing the boundaries of men’s denim with different prints, washes and textures”.

Nominated by: Mr Polly

Link helpfully added by: Harold

https://www.ft.com/content/894d7f11-d722-4326-a938-dc111d8c93ca

Denim sponsored by: Shakey himself I asked him for a comment and he replied that he ain’t gonna text me no longer, he’s ain’t gonna text me no more.

 

36 thoughts on “Double Denim”

  1. I’ve never read such a pile of poofery in all my life. Any cunt who needs nancies to tell them how to dress is in big fucking trouble.

    • That’s an outrageous slur Mike. You’ll be hearing from my solicitors in the morning, Australia time!

      • RTC@ Agreed Shaky – outrageous behaviour and all the excuse a sensible person needs to ban cunters from accessing racy pictures of Bonnie Langford!
        Make sure the postman puts the papers through the green door..

  3. That gay looking cunt is wearing over £4k worth of shit that looks like it’s had bleach spilt all over it.

  4. I remember a few years ago a couple who moved to a nearby village…they dressed in denim..or at least jeans and leather jacket with an embroidered sleeveless denim jacket over the leather jacket..bikers’ boots and fingerless gloves,cowboy hats…long greasy hair and ‘taches on both him and her…in fact they could have passed for Lemmy from Motorhead’s cojoined twins. Everyone thought that the must be proper “bikers” until it was pointed out that they actually travelled by bus. We were joshing them in the Pub. one day ( there were there every night) and I asked him if their bike was in for repairs…he got quite defensive and said that he didn’t have a licence because he had narcolepsy and she also had medical problems….I asked what narcolepsy was and then told him that it sounded more like a bad case of lazyitus to me..he got quite upset at that and to presumably prove me wrong promptly fell asleep across the bar….Fuck me,it was a poor performance…how we laughed as his “chick” ministered to the poor soul.

    The Cunts were nothing but professional dole-wallahs..still, it all had a happy ending when he set his ” I’m a 1%er hard biker” mouth up in town one night at The Farmers and someone punched him through a window….he genuinely was entitled to cripple money after that.

    • The Farmers was a pub…I don’t mean a group of vast land owners.

      • Double denim!
        Francis Rossi from Status Quo springs to mind😀
        And of course Shaky above,
        The welsh Elvis.
        Saw this bloke, a yank, go down a mine and retreive a pair of old miners jeans on telly.
        He brushed off the rubble and they sold too a japanese bloke for big money!!
        Original denim apparently is collectable?!
        The best jeans I ever owned were yank,
        Absolutely bomb proof.
        You want your moneys worth out of something,
        Buy Carhartt jeans, theyll outlive you.

    • Not quite to do with the nomination but I saw Shaky many times before he hit the big time whilst I was at university in the 1970s. Even though his music was not first choice for many students he always put on a great show and it was invariably a great night.

      • Corbin sometimes wears denim I beleive, as does that cunt Owen Jones. Fucking disgrace. However, not seen them in double denim so that is still probably okay. Double denim used to be all about the great outdoors, cowboys, Marlboro and that macho scene. Also, as MNC notes, a staple of seventies rock. All good. If it is now being claimed by gays it is a travesty. I have never forgiven the cunts for hijacking Judy Garland.

        On my travelsI saw some cunt outside Selfridges wearing fucking peach shorts and squealing to some other twat about his latte. Fucking peach shorts and a matching peach jacket. Double peach, it should be an arrestable offence.

        Agree, Shaky was great, Guzzi.

      • Morning 20,
        Peach?
        Jesus. My family would disown me.
        Men shouldn’t wear peach.
        Theres a list of no-no’s when it comes to what is forbidden to men
        1. Peach
        2. Pink
        3. Red jeans
        4. Driving gloves
        5. Hawaiian shirts (unless your a private eye in America)
        6. Frocks.
        7. Bras an knickers (unless youve got permission off the missus) 😀

      • Shaky still tours. I was in Munich a few years back, and he was playing there.

  5. The FT is now the go to place for men’s fashion tips it seems. Got to find news ways to spend the million pound bonuses. Never mind the designer denim jacket and jeans costing a couple of grand each will look identical to the ones in Primark costing twenty quid each.

  6. Double Denim is for amateurs. I once watched a programme in which Jay Leno wore triple denim (shirt, jacket and jeans)! I suppose there’s a possibility he was also wearing denim undercrackers & socks, but thankfully it wasn’t discussed.

  8. The Eton Mess should take up wearing double denim. Jeans with bleach marks and holes complete with a denim jacket with bits hanging off it. It wouldn’t look any worse than the Oxfam suits he wears; baggy, long trousers and someones dead grandad’s jackets. He needs to find a tailor or if he has one, one that isn’t blind.

  9. Unless your a fucking cowboy , work for Marlboro cigarettes or live in the southern/ south western states of America and like country music there’s absolutely no excuse for wearing double denim in public, it has no place in civilised society and anybody telling you differently should be instantly dismissed as a “ closet” homosexual…….😂

    • In the nom it mentions driving gloves.
      Ive often wondered about these.
      As in why? Who? And what for?
      Im deeply suspicious of some cunt who needs gloves to drive,
      Only benefit to driving gloves is if your the Yorkshire Ripper!
      Well bent.

      • I have pair in the old Merc. Keeps my hands warm while it warms up in winter.

      • If you have a traditional wooden steering wheel, as I have on my Morgan, then driving gloves are a great help. The steering wheel tends to be slippery. No need for them on modern cars.

      • MNC@ – I believe driving gloves gave grip on old Bakelite & wood steering wheels – big, cold, a bit slippy and a fair old heave pre power steering days.
        Terry Thomas always looked suitably dastardly in them!

    • That’s me fucking told, I told Mrs Infidel to put hers on this week when she hinted at buying another coat.
      Her jacket is gonna get binned now.

      I’ll have to get it out of the closet!

  10. Corbin sometimes wears denim I beleive, as does that cunt Owen Jones. Fucking disgrace. However, not seen them in double denim so that is still probably okay. Double denim used to be all about the great outdoors, cowboys, Marlboro and that macho scene. Also, as MNC notes, a staple of seventies rock. All good. If it is now being claimed by gays it is a travesty. I have never forgiven the cunts for hijacking Judy Garland.

    On my travelsI saw some cunt outside Selfridges wearing fucking peach shorts and squealing to some other twat about his latte. Fucking peach shorts and a matching peach jacket. Double peach, it should be an arrestable offence.

    Agree, Shaky was great, Guzzi.

    • Fucking out of practice, double post, what a cunt!

  11. I know how to fucking spend “it” – I just don’t know how to make “it”, Do the FT do an article on that?

  13. I have some denim jeans. They are very comfortable and easy to put on and hardwearing. I think denim jeans and the like were made years ago originally for people working outdoors.

    • You’re right, they were regulation work trousers for years but most have switched to the modern designated work pants. Health and safety , ahem
      My first pair of jeans in the late seventies were Lee jeans ,had to soak them in the bath to get the dye out before use .
      I had blue legs for weeks and every other clothing in the house had blue.
      They were as tough as old boots until some cunts pointed out they were gay jeans, fucks sakes.
      Moved on to Levi’s 501’s and they were made of shit , wouldn’t last piss time without the knees and thighs shredding .
      Have been wearing Mustang jeans for general fucking about and love em.
      I don’t give a fuck anymore if the gays wear em or not.

      • I have had a couple of Irish girlfriends who both had various jean jackets as a standard part of their wardrobe. I visited Ireland many a time and it was awash with denim. I thought it must be the law 🙂

        Levi 501 red tag was my weapon of choice but you are right about the quality, they weren’t always like that though. Can’t remember the last time I wore jeans anyway.

        Don’t worry about what the Gays wear, as long as you don’t end up with matching dresses 😀

      • I stopped wearing jeans around the age of twenty and never wore double denim. I had a denim jacket but never wore it with jeans, it would have looked too much like a suit.
        Clothing manufacturers have always looked for ways to persuade us to buy new stuff even when we don’t need it. I remember reading in the seventies about some bird who said ‘it costs me £60 a week just to stay in fashion’.

  15. Jeans? Sound.
    Double denim? – Not unless you are a Country and Western singer or a wrong un.
    I could envisage Biden in double denim.

    • Ya never got the jacket part but the jeans oh yah
      Money talks but it can’t sing and dance
      And it can’t walk

  16. Best lasting jeans I’ve had for years are M&S. I liked 501s, but they wore out bloody quickly round the crotch. My ex said it was all the farting.

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