Blazing Your Jeans

As in, wearing them with a blazer.

This was a tricky one for me. How to wear a blazer with jeans. I haven’t worn a blazer with jeans in more than a decade. At least not with any real consistency or intention.

When I was in my twenties I loved wearing a blazer with jeans. It made me feel grown-up and, working in fashion, it worked for work without feeling too worky. At the time, my blazer of choice was by Junya Watanabe for Commes des Garçons – true navy with a heavily darted waist, shoulder pads, and ribbed inserts running half way down the sleeves. The jeans I’d wear with my Junya jacket were just-as-stiff Proenza Schouler straight legs. No stretch. A clean wash. It was 2013 and they cost a whopping $275.

Chloé calls this a blazer, though the epaulette-like tabs on the cuffs make it feel more like a jacket to me. The cinch sits so nicely with a loose legged jean. Chloé blazer/jacket, Mother jeans (old, but Levi’s Baggy Dad Barrel is similar, with darts at the knee). I recommend a shoe like this.

Interestingly, darted w…