Claire's Picks
← Pants Worth Hanging in Your WardrobeLight Wash Jeans That Get It Right
Light wash jeans have a credibility problem that is entirely the fault of bad light wash jeans. Get the shade wrong and you end up somewhere between 1987 and a supermarket car park. Get the fit wrong and no amount of good intention saves you. But when they work, they really work. There is a warmth and ease to a well done light wash that a dark indigo or a black jean simply cannot offer, particularly from spring through to early autumn when the whole wardrobe shifts a gear toward something more relaxed. We have been looking specifically at washes that sit in that considered middle ground, not so pale they look washed out, not so processed they look costumed. Straight cuts and relaxed tapers only. Nothing that fights against a clean white tee or a linen shirt. The fits here work. The washes are right. These are the ones worth building an outfit around.
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