#button-down

etsyfindoftheday | 2.27.19

kiku skirt by lacouturie

I don’t own blue jeans. Not a single pair.

Denim was purged from my wardrobe a decade ago as an act of sartorial self-righteousness. Back then, as today, jeans were everywhere. Just look around you. Chances are, almost everyone is wearing them. With that in mind, I bucked the trend like a religious zealot.

But I’ve mellowed with age. I still don’t own jeans and wish more men would open themselves up to different options, but I’ve learned to appreciate denim for what it is: an historically rich, texturally lovely fabric. And true denim is elegantly simple: cotton warp threads died with indigo, which doesn’t penetrate all the way through—thus the eventual fading—woven usually 3 over 1 white weft thread—thus the lighter-hued reverse side.

And while I don’t have jeans, denim recently re-entered my wardrobe via this MAROL button-down shirt.