The Street Look · Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Two Ways to Wear Denim Too Big
Graphic tee and brown pocket tee, distressed baggy jeans
A white Polar photo-graphic tee with a black-and-white all-over-print tote and mid-blue distressed baggy jeans, next to a faded brown pocket tee with heavily ripped and bandana-patched jeans, a studded belt and black boots.
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Same silhouette, two completely different amounts of effort. On the left the jeans are just big — clean wash, a few honest rips, hem dragging. On the right they have been worked on: patches, bandana panels, tears that have been allowed to open. Standing together they show how much room the wide-denim shape has in it before it becomes a costume, and neither one has crossed that line.
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