Jean Queen

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Ask Amy (Nashville City Paper)

Travel is meant to broaden the mind, and my fashion resolution for 2010 – scratch that, the next decade – came to me en route to La Palma in December. While standing in the queue at Heathrow, I found myself having the most uncharitable thoughts about my fellow travellers’ outfits. Ugg boots, ill-fitting combats, overly distressed jeans… it was as if the fashion crimes of the Noughties were all …

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Carola Long: ‘The sight of so much clothing that prioritised comfort over style was dispiriting’ (Independent)

One shirt, just one shirt, basically a glorified t-shirt, costs $50 and a pair of blue jeans – yes just a pair of jeans – costs $100 at a fancy store in town. The glossy ad is tucked into the Saturday paper and one can imagine that at least a few moms will be handing over their credit card so that the gotta-have-it outfit is purchased for the teen who will wear it less than a half dozen times …

Continue here: Faith & Action: A shirt & jeans (The Eloy Enterprise)

With no previous experience in business or fashion, the 3 Swedes started their project, prompted by a desire to enter in contact with the isolationist state.

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Swedish jeans "Made in North Korea" go on sale (AsiaOne)

Check out why these six brands are well-loved and here to stay!

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The 66-year-old wife of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama won the oddly named “Best Jeanist Award” – a prize she had been longing to win.

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Japan’s quirky first lady honoured as jeans ambassador (AsiaOne)

Jack Davenport is squeezed into a chair at The Rookery hotel in Clerkenwell, washing down a lunch of sashimi with a can of Coke. His big, trim frame is clothed in a red shirt – a button undone to show a V of chest hair – and blue jeans, and he is by turns laugh-out-loud funny, intellectual, self-deprecating, vulnerable, defensive and decent.

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Just Jack (Evening Standard)

In contrast to the shorts, bikini top and naturally curly hair Amy had been sporting in the Caribbean, the star was back in her London pop star guise in skin jeans, ballet shoes and her signature beehive.

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Amy Winehouse jets back to London after two month holiday… as mother-in-law hits out at ‘cheating’ singer (Daily Mail)

The headwaiter of an elegant restaurant recoiled in disgust as a man in boots, torn jeans and a leather jacket approached him. “Hey, man,” he said, “where’s the toilet?”

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Gentlemen Only (ThirdAge)

QUESTION: Can a mature woman wear jeans? A friend suggested that after 40, jeans look sloppy and pants are a better choice.

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Q&A: Can a Mature Woman Wear Jeans? (ThirdAge)