One pair of jeans is all we need – here’s why

From the skinny to the barrel and the ultra -high trends to the jeans that are always changing, so how can we choose the perfect pair for us, and the most?

Few items or clothes are as iconic and ubiquitous as a pair or jeans. With the time that defines the silhouettes that capture cultural moments over time, jeans are a basic costume element. But they are also one of the most contaminating categories of fashion, prone to cycles of high trends and, as results, hanging in our cabinets without place.

Take the trends of this season. Last year, Vogue reported that the tight jeans were returning, just to call it a fleeting moment 12 months later, and now they are back, with the princess of Wales as a poster. The “thin” silhouettes are also inside, along with the jeans with a belt and loaf, and the shape of the jeans of the season barrel legs: an adjusted waist that leads to a slightly voluminous leg and then narrows in the ankle. With as many adjustments and trends as body forms and tastes, how do we invest in the perfect pair?

Personal stylist Alexandra Fullerton says that barrel leg silhouette works with most body forms. “They are loose on the legs and sit around the true waist, therefore, they should have a loading place in the closet,” he tells the BBC. “They are just one passage for baby Jean, who is now a perma trend.”

But Fullerton emphasizes that buying a couple or jeans should be a marathon, not a sprint, and advises its customers to build a list of styles based on research. What washed do you like? What brands do you admire? Who in the public eye has a similar body form from which you can take advice?

“Putting some jobs, it is a couple of hours in a real -life store with a well -lit and idly adjustment room will secure the best purchase,” says Fullerton. “The department stores with dedicated denim stores are the best place to start. Whatever their budget, jeans should be an investment, so buy longevity, instead of trends, in mind.”

Fullerton warns that the extremes of extreme skin and ultra -high or ultra -high and under -while are more prone to cycling inside and out of fashion. “It is better to choose a less severe silhouette that will survive any fashion, such as a straight leg or a modestly wide jean with an average to high increase that will be classic for the coming years,” he advocates. “Mid-Blue is always the best option for washing.”

No Jean has resisted the test of time like Levi’s 501. Patented in 1873 by Levi Strauss and Jacob David in the United States, it was originally created as a 100% durable and hard cotton cotton monkey for miners and farmers. But in the early 1950s, Blue Jeans came to mean the youth rebellion, after the 501 of Marlon Brando and James Dean Wue Levi in ​​Wild One and Rebel without cause. And who can forget Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis denim in high waist jeans for Thelma and Louise in 1991?

“When the Japanese selection denim replaced the ultra hip-hop hip-hop settings in the late 90s, and then Levi launched his red collection of twisted and ergonomic jeans, the defense landscape changed forever,” says denim designer, professor and historian Mohsin Sojid. “From then on, the denim became higher, appearing on the catwalks and in the collections of designer brands. I was working in Pringle at that time and asked me to design an acceleration jean.”

Today, jeans are firmly part of the fashion current; It is difficult to find a clothing brand that does not sell them inside their collections. And most jeans now contain some synthetic stretching within the cotton mixture, usually Elastane, which derives from fossil fuels and sinking them, which makes them less durable.

As a result, part of the brightness has come out of the iconic pants and its apogee of Hollywood. The UN estimates that a single pair or jeans requires 1 kg or cotton, which in turn needs around 7,500-10000 liters of water to grow, the 10-year equivalent of drinking water for a person. As an industry, fashion produces 20% of all wastewater, and the process of chemical dyeing of denim can be harness for both workers and the environment.

“There is a reason why Levi’s 501 has transcended the time; from 100% cotton, with natural stretching,” explains Professor Dilys Williams, director of the Sustainable Fashion Center in the London College of Fashion, Uual. “But we have Beerome less accustomed to wearing clothes without synthetic stretching because it is sold as more comfortable. So, it is in part of training ourselves, do we need that synthetic stretching? Or could we wear a jean?”

An enthusiastic cyclist, Williams tends to get holes in his jeans. Instead of buying a new pair, proudly repair existing jeans to reflect your fashion identity and lifestyle. “Each pair tells a story about what has happened while the legs are used, the color fades according to, creating a unique patina,” Williams tells the BBC. “However, this wonderful element has been sabotiated: so many jeans are previously aged, usually using harmful chemical processes, hand -managed, in countries without strong health and safety controls. Jean’s life accelerates, its production is fast and its identity for the client is lost.”

Choosing crude denim is another way to minimize the environmental impact of jeans. Also known as dry denim, it has gone through processes prior to washing or reduced in production, unlike most of today’s jeans. The result is a dark and rigid jean who can fading naturally and soften over time.

“It may be difficult to make the change to such a dark option, but after a few months he will never look back,” says Sajid. “Imperfections such as the lubrants of the needles of the rotating and fabric process make them speak and could become a great jean that fades. Try to resist washing your jean jeans during the first months and will not need, you do not have your own wear pattern.”

Saxid adds that a large pair of durable jeans is a biological indigo mixture of biological use of 100% regenerative quality cotton (without oil -based dyes) in an average weight of biological use of cotton use (approximately 354 g). For comfort and stretching, look for marks that use hemp or soft fibers such as Lyocell Tencel and Modal Tancel.

Since the early 2000s, new jeans brands have entered the market to help address Denim’s environmental impact, without signs of innovation.

In March, the luxury denim brand with headquarters in Los Angeles, AGOLDO, owned by Citizens of Humanity, presented its spring collection in association with Lycra with a fiber stretched based on plants made of cursi cursi regenerative tint

Amy Williams, Executive Director of Citizens of Humanity, says that the characteristic silhouettes of Agolde, the great height, of wide leg and the straight leg, Harper-Continuous to be favorites of the clients from the change in the materials. Meanwhile, the Swedish organic cotton brand Nudie Jeans, which published its annual sustainability report this month, offers free repairs, with repair workshops in the place in its stores. Last year, the brand repaired 68,342 Jeans Nudie.

And Elv Denim, who made his debut at London Fashion Week earlier this year, is a pioneer in a new luxury model based on waste. All jeans are made of recycled materials, which would otherwise have ended in the landfill.

“Our jeans are designed with a generous sewing margin to be adaptable with the user’s body as they evolve,” says the founder and creative director Anna Foster to the BBC. “We had just had a client who, when she was pregnant, took out the sewing margin, put a little elastic to use them throughout the pregnancy. After the baby had, little by little she put them again.”

The brand jeans are designed to be modular, so if a part is damaged, the brand can replace that unique part instead of the customer having to buy a new couple. Still a young brand, Elv Denim was launched in 2018, Foster has great hopes. “My ambition is for the entire fashion industry, not only denim. I would like to see an industry that values ​​crafts and the quality and individuality of the style about gains and mass production.”

Perhaps this is the next chapter of the history of jeans: individual style combined with responsibility. Like any garment, jeans do not need to be a disposable option. Perhaps his perfect pair is already in his wardrobe, calling to be repaired, recycled in something new or of being in love again, he may not be in the silhouette of the season, but it could be the one that suits you.

That is the key to a great pair of jeans: understand what styles make you happy. Ded some time to denim, try different pairs, be bold and experience, then build your denim plan. Add its durable quality to the mixture, and a pair or jeans a favorite forever, whatever the season.

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