Invisible Adjunct

I am hard pressed to think of anyone who looks good in white denim.

I've never even seen white denim. Could someone explain why it's so disastrous?

Dear Miriam, white is a color to be worn lightly, flowingly, perhaps in a nice linen, or silk. White denim, however, makes the wearer looked as if he's wrapped in gauze: nice for fetishistic potential, but a turn-off to most regular gals.

Ogged, you've obviously got an eye. Please help me redecorate my living room.

With the apparently unlimited budget of the Fab Five, we could do wonders.

I didn't even know denim came in white. But I got married in a nice pair of white linen pants with a white shirt and an off-white linen jacket (and, of course, a Panama for outdoor wear, though I didn't have it on during the ceremony). My bride told me I looked smashing. I suspect she may have been prejudiced, though.

I'll forgive the white denim if they can get straight men to stop wearing white sweat socks with sandals.

I've often thought Kyan the weakest link in the chain. The interior decorating is to die for, however.

baa, did you see Kyan guide the insecure lawyer (Richard M.) through the trauma of removing his hairpiece? It was genuinely touching and I'm not sure any of the others could have managed it.

Not wear white denim? Riiiiiggggghhhhht.

Next thing you're gonna tell me is, chicks don't dig men who wear their shirts unbuttoned to the navel, the better to show off their collection of gold chains. Or that they can tell it's a combover - crazy stuff like that.

Now, I do understand that white denim should only be worn in season, from Memorial Day to Labor Day (out of season, it's skintight fake leather, of course).

Count me in as one who wore white linen trousers at his wedding (but no headgear other than my yarmulke) and who was heretofore unaware that denim came in white.

"...and who was heretofore unaware that denim came in white."

Which is one reason why you had a wedding to which you could white linen...

I love Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but it doesn't quite replace Trading Spaces. There's room in my heart- and channel changer- for both!

Ogged, you forget that one of the prime uses of white denim is for dancing-- it's white, so it glows in blacklight, and it's tight, so everyone can see how nice your ass looks. It's not disastrous, it just has, you know, a context.

Much as I'd like to be known as a guy with an eye, I confess: I didn't forget. I had no idea.

I do believe we need to make a few distinctions here. There's white and then there's WHITE, by which I mean there are a vast array of semi-permissable off-whites, varieties such as "stone white" for instance, and then there is bright, unalloyed WHITE.

Interestingly, I've seen very few men where this kind of white -- but I'll be on the look out -- though I have seen many women wearing it in tight denim. They're usually on their way to clubs with names like "Egypt" and "Club Babylon," and with their skin-tight white jeans they often compliment them with cobalt blue satin shirts and black strap high heels.

Ladies, may I just say, you might want to re-think that as it is most certainly NOT a turn on.

Painters may wear as much white denim as they want. They have to do something to be noticeable in the Apollonian glory of roofing season...

My students last year had a class in-joke about white denim -- it started with a reference to bad '80s fashion (including white jeans) in one of their papers, and then it kept coming up. The originator of the joke put "a.k.a. the boy with the white jeans" next to his name on his final paper. They all seemed to agree that white denim was a big fashion faux pas.

unfortunately, i am starting to see more guys wearing white jeans.