The Mind of Kenney Young

Let’s get this straight. When it comes to wacky, outdated fashion, I’m a guy who can appreciate the goofiness. I love to see the resurgence of 80s crop tops, high socks, bright neon colors, hair scrunchies, or even cut-sleeved sports jackets with inserted shoulder pads. Next to gothic clothing (which I’m sorry, you’re not expressing yourself by wearing stock Hot Topic combat boots and being really overheated all the time), I just don’t understand the appeal of denim on denim, and why do some people still think this is OK?

I’m specifically talking about stonewashed jeans with button down denim jackets (among other denim faux pas’). It is the quintessential 1990s American television wardrobe default. Think about it. All those sitcoms like “Full House” or “Growing Pains” featured their characters rocking too much denim. Even George Costanza of our beloved “Seinfeld” is seen in a few episodes wearing a less than flattering combination of a denim jacket over a solid-colored sweater tucked into his oversize Wrangler’s.

Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs and Jay-Z attempted to bring brought back some double denim ideas with their respective clothing lines in the early millennium. They took the tight-fitting denim that Jerry wore and loosened it up, put some sag in there, and made the smallest size an XL. For some reason, they were a big hit in the early 2000s, but luckily for us, they’ve gotten out of style. Sly Stone, however, at Coachella music festival was recently seen sporting denim on denim outfit He even added a denim baseball hat! Should have stuck to the bell-bottoms, Sly.

Let’s get this straight, I’m not trying to trash denim. I have a decent collection of denim lying around that I still love to wear. I will never, however, put my stonewashed jeans together with my Levi’s jean jacket. Those days are over.

People, you know better! I know you can do better! Denim works well with lots of other clothes. Let’s not match it with more of the same!

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