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Chris Higgins
Put This On: Denim
by Chris Higgins - November 3, 2009 - 9:31 AM

Today I bring you a new “web series about dressing like a grownup” presented by Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America (a public radio show that’s generally awesome) and Adam Lisagor of the hilarious podcast You Look Nice Today (A Journal of Emotional Hygiene). Anyway, Put This On is all about clothing — what to buy, how to care for clothes, how to combine clothes, how to do grownup things (like wear ties, match your belt to your shoes, dress properly for an occasion, and so on) that you may not have learned on your own. It’s a little like the Queer Eye tips segments before the commercials, minus the actual QE makeover.

This first episode is all about denim, specifically, jeans made from denim. Thorn and Lisagor go onsite to a shop that produces jeans “the old-fashioned way,” give very specific tips on the proper care and maintenance of jeans, and even recommend low/medium/high priced jeans, in case you’re in the market for a new pair. While this episode is focused on men’s jeans, I think women will get something out of it too — particularly the instructions for how to make jeans “shrink to fit” properly, and how (and when) to wash them.

Update: here’s a link to the series as a podcast (link opens iTunes).

Below is the video, or you can watch in HD at Vimeo.

Put This On, Episode 1: Denim from Put This On on Vimeo.

Full disclosure: I’m an executive producer (meaning I gave them some money) on this episode. I don’t get any payment or other compensation for the project, I just thought it was awesome and chipped in some cash to get it made.

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Comments (7)

  1. That was applicable to women indeed. Now I will no longer feel apprehensive about how long I go without washing my Levis as it turns out I was instinctually right about wearing them unwashed for months at a time.

    posted by Carly on 11-3-2009 at 11:53 am

  2. The more time between washings, the better, for Levi’s. They only start to feel really good by the 3rd day.

    posted by Hyacinth on 11-3-2009 at 12:53 pm

  3. I LOVE THAT THERE ARE DIRECTION ON WHEN TO WASH YOUR JEANS. I hate hate hate just washed denim. Gotta let ‘em get a lil dirrrrty.

    posted by Kristin on 11-3-2009 at 2:04 pm

  4. This is great! I wash my jeans after 3 wears…which must be too often. My $150 pair of Joe’s jeans are WAY too light now. The only catch is that with women’s jeans, some stretch out too much. I wish this were more for women so I would know what to do then.

    posted by Kels on 11-3-2009 at 3:25 pm

  5. So I wonder if that bit of advice about not wearing a jean jacket with jeans applies to women too?

    posted by Nerak on 11-3-2009 at 3:28 pm

  6. Nerak – Jesse Thorn actually talks a bit more about the jean jacket with jeans issue (although not specifically about women) in this Q&A post:

    http://putthison.com/post/231989420/denimjacketandjeans

    posted by Chris Higgins on 11-3-2009 at 3:31 pm

  7. Thanks for the link, Nerak. I agree with his take on denim, for the most part. I think one exception where a jean jacket (or a collared denim shirt) can be worn with jeans is when they are either two distinctly different shades of the same color (blue, usually)or a dead-on match (the same color WITH the same amount of fade). I think the two-tone look is good (especially when the top, either jacket or shirt, is darker than the pants). The worst thing someone can do, though, in my opinion, is wear a jacket and pants or shirt and pants that matched, at one time, but that now one has faded more than the other. It just doesn’t look right.

    posted by Bruce on 11-3-2009 at 4:29 pm

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