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The three Canadian siblings behind Triarchy/Atelier Denim were horrified to learn that it takes more than 6,814 litres to grow the cotton needed to make a single pair of jeans – and that doesn’t include the water used during manufacturing. In 2016, Adam, Ania and Mark Taubenfligel hit the pause button on their five-year business […]

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If you Google “Canadian Tuxedo” a picture of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake pops up. The double-denim look that the two pop stars wore to the 2001 American Music Awards has become iconic, but Canucks didn’t dream up this sartorial combo. Turns out the term was coined after American singer and actor Bing Crosby was […]

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In its ceaseless quest for fresh ideas, fashion adores the obscure, the forgotten and the extinct. Which is why the current double-denim trend is so troubling. If “total jeans” is shorthand for “working class” (i.e., not minimalist or maximalist but Marxist!), our sudden enthusiasm for it may mean that the proletariat has gone the way […]

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Around 1999 to 2007, most of us were united against a common enemy: mom jeans. (Or, more specifically, “vintage-inspired high-rise jeans, current staple of our adult wardrobes.”) So much fabric, so much modesty, so little midriff… gross.

But as we’re painfully now aware, the style climate was a lot different 10 years ago than it is now. Exposed thongs, cut-off waistbands, and the rest of Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” wardrobe ranked over Jesse Spanno vibes circa 2003, so when SNL’s “Mom Jeans” commercial came out, we welcomed it with open arms.

And today, we still do – but while wearing the offending jeans in question. Unsurprisingly, like all trends, mom jeans made a comeback. And on their way, they brought along other ‘90s pieces that make us sound like old Lisa Frank diary entries when we talk about clothes. So with all that in mind, here are the condescending fashion terms that now define our closets. And one day I’m sure I’ll wish I kept my Christina Aguilera-like lace up jeans.

Old-school fashion rules are generally to our benefit. In a world of muffin tops and visible panty lines, they give us some Emily Post–like structure on how to flatter our bodies and look put together in the currently “anything goes” state of sartorial modernism. That being said there are some rules that just aren’t relevant anymore, limiting your wardrobe instead of making the most of it. Here, we learn from Hollywood’s finest that rules really are made to be broken.

Turn don’ts into dos! »