Jeans make you fat, poor, immature.

The Wall Street Journal was echoed by The Washington Post when both ran companion Opinion pieces this week on denim jeans as fashion, or rather as not fashion.

"looks bad on almost everyone who isn't thin"

"There was a time, of course, when not everyone wore denim. In the 1950s,"

"the unofficial uniform of the fattest people in the world."

"no fabric has ever been so insidiously effective at undermining national discipline"

says WSJ dinosaur Daniel Akst, citing denim-sporting hipsters like Brando, Bing Crosby and Elvis.

I see this as disdain for cheap clothes worn by poor, fat people, or rather disdain for fat poor people.

TWP's article is no less incendiary.

"Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults"

"Seventy-five percent of American "gamers" -- people who play video games -- are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote."

"Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances"

"A confession: The author owns one pair of jeans. Wore them once. Had to."

"(Our country) would be much more so (lovely) if supposed grown-ups would...(put) away childish things, starting with denim."

says George F. Will, seen here (captions not mine) :




Video Games - a USD$9.5 billion industry in 2007.
Denim - a USD$49 billion industry in 2004.

Sound the alarm! Rid the world of these foul concoctions! Why, who would suffer when such piffle and trifle are eliminated?!? What's $60 billion in the bailout era?

Will had this to add:

"For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly."

Fred Astaire? Grace Kelly? Brando, Elvis, please.....
The Brando I know was too fat for films, Astaire was dead and on Ritz Cracker commercials, Elvis was known for dying of obesity, and these are your fashion role models??

Right…

Most people 44 and under (at most, 14 in 1979, and making up a BIG chunk of the pants-wearing population) never saw these zombies in action.

Sorry, dinosaurs, we’re not switching back to the 14th Century.