Essential Jeans

The 5 Styles I Can't Go Without + A Footnote.

The situation is this: I’m moving to Europe for a few months and I can only bring so many jeans. My husband’s work is taking our family to Madrid (Spain!) and I have about a week to decide which pairs to pack. Now is when you ask me to name the styles I love and feel are most essential to our wardrobes today. If I had to bring just five jeans, what would they be? It’s a good newsletter-problem to solve.

Four of the five jeans I’m wearing in this post are pairs I own and reach for repeatedly. They check boxes and fill buckets – multi-tasking and second-or-third-shifting, and sometimes managing school drop-off and date night, both. The fifth pair (from Rachel Comey) is newer and does exactly what I’d hoped, which is offer up an element of surprise. All five general styles are relevant and versatile – and available from different brands at different price points. The examples of each that I own myself have already shown me they can go the distance. Next stop, Spain.