When I was a kid we still had strict dress codes in school. The girls wore dresses or skirts with socks or stockings. I don't remember what year it was when schools went liberal, it was sometime during my junior or senior year of high school. That was when I truly started my "denim chick" liberation.
Comfort ruled.
I wore my bell bottoms everyday (maybe even the same ones). Back then we wore them until they wore out, I sewed calico cotton patches all over mine. When the knees got so bad you either cut them and made them into a skirt or cut offs. Rips and tears were cool.
I still wear jeans most days, I still make them into cut offs and skirts and handbags. I have no idea how many garments I own made out of denim ~ a lot. I really only feel like my true self when I wear denim. When I go to the beach I leave my cut offs on with my bathing suit. I don't see other women like this on the beach any more. If the blue is not some shade of denim I will not wear it. Of course chambray is completely acceptable.
For me, denim never fades.
For me, denim never fades.
