Jean Queen

Think blue is boring? Add some pizzazz to your wardrobe this spring with colored jeans. No longer confined to shades of blue, denim pants now are available in everything from pastel green to bold red.

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Colored Jeans: How to wear this spring's bold trend

Boonton High School's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) collected 53 pairs of gently worn jeans in just a little over a week during the Jeans for Teens drive. They will be donated to a homeless shelter. The FBLA plans to get an earlier start to their donation drive next year to collect more jeans for youth in need and to raise awareness of teen homelessness. Shown from left are: Aisha …

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Teens for Jeans at Boonton High School

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is putting electronic identification tags on men’s clothing such as jeans starting Aug. 1 as the world’s largest retailer tries to gain more control of its inventory. But the move is raising eyebrows among privacy experts.

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Wal-Mart tags spur privacy fears

Jeans and sneakers? Halter top and short shorts?

More here: NJ Labor Department bans halter tops and shorts in dress code crackdown

State and local police seized van loads of knockoff footwear, jerseys, jeans and handbags Tuesday in two separate raids across South Jersey.

More here: $600K in counterfeit good seized in 2 S.J. raids (Courier-Post)

Pam Liebman, the Corcoran Group real estate firm’s chief executive, spends much of her weekend negotiating the menu to satisfy the preferences of her daughters.

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No Work or Naps, and Lots on the Menu (New York Times)

The holiday collection of the menswear line life/after/denim has hit Urban Outfitters in the Cherry Hill Mall.

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Beyond jeans (Courier-Post)

Police responded to the first block of West Broad Street at 4:51 a.m. Thursday for a report of clothes set on fire with gasoline and left outside an apartment. A witness identified the arsonist as a short black male wearing a baseball cap, brown striped shirt and blue jeans.

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MILLVILLE: Afternoon police update has burning clothes incident, forgetful burglar (Daily Journal)

Dewitt Mayes, 45, of the 200 block of West Laurel Street, received a summons on shoplifting Thursday after attempting to take without paying four pairs of black label jeans, with a total value of $279.96, from Burlington Coat Factory on the 3800 block of South Delsea Drive.

More here: VINELAND: Afternoon police report includes thefts, accidents (Daily Journal)

Now that the cool-guy uniform — skinny jeans, layered Ts, tailored vest and stylish scarf, all in shades of gray and black — has reached every mall in the country, the trendsetters who started it have moved on.

Continue here: Geek chic: Justin Timberlake can wear it, but can you? (Courier-Post)