The Ultimate Denim Controversy: To Wash or Not One of the beautiful qualities of denim is how it can start to conform to your body and become truly customized over time. Like anything precious, with proper care, denim jeans will also last forever. So it’s no surprise that one of...

Enter any nail salon and you’ll be asked to choose a color for your service. You want red, but one spin of the polish carousel and you’re already reeling from the neverending shades: frosted sheer, glitter, matte, blue-based or yellow-hued. Suddenly you feel paralyzed in the face of decision. There’s...

Gen Xer’s may recall the pre-spandex days, where the going out ritual consisted of lying down on the bed, hoping that gravity would help zip up those skin tight Vanderbilt jeans. Modern jeans may be more gentle thanks to the advent of stretch-friendly fibers, but recently, the quest for the...

When my first pair of Bluer jeans came in the mail, they looked like most every other new pair of the Bluer’s Indigo selvedge jeans: a bit stiff and coarse, the blue deep and ready to smudge off on any light shirt I dared to put on. I took a...

Facebook users will be familiar with the On This Day feature. From time to time it greets you with a blast from your relatively recent past. Some find it unnerving, especially if it’s a picture with an ex, for example. But my eye is always drawn to the clothes. Whatever...