Denim is the New Black

I'd worn a suit only a handful of times and didn't even own a dress jacket, much less a suit, when I moved to NYC from New Mexico nine years ago. Spent about 10% of all the money I brought with me to this city for my first suit -- a classic blue Hugo Boss for 500 bucks from Bloomie's.

On top of that, I had to essentially replace my entire chillin' wardrobe over the course of the first year or two. Not an easy task, given I had NO spare money that first year and a half -- took my first job at Starbucks after I realized all those jobs I'd been reading about in the NYTimes classified were for cold-callers...not that I knew what that meant at the time, I could just tell after the first couple interviews that I didn't want to work with those places... I digress though.

See, the problem was that I wore mostly jeans and had very few black items at all. Meanwhile, you had to go out in black or something hip/urban in NYC in the late 1990s, you know? Anything less than hardcore urban just wouldn't work.

Fast forward to 2005, and denim is truly back. Hardcore urban ain't what it used to be. And denim to a classical concert at Carnegie Hall? Did it last Friday. Denim to a club in Downtown NYC? Fit right in last month.

Gotta love those jeans. Ironically, last year, I ventured into the Hugo Boss store here in NYC for the first time a few years. Bought myself, among other things, a pair of Hugo jeans. Bought an identical second pair today cuz I like 'em so much. Full circle, huh?

Denim is the new black. I'm gonna go out into this rainy evening wearing....yup, jeans.