{"id":1106,"date":"2009-10-29T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/denim-trends\/power-jeans-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T05:00:37","slug":"power-jeans-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/denim-trends\/power-jeans-on-the-rise\/1106","title":{"rendered":"Power Jeans On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; <a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image67.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"398\" alt=\"Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-thumb67.png\" width=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><em><font color=\"#004000\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Power jeans are increasingly common in high-ranking business and political circles. Indeed, jeans are now a legitimate part of the global power-dress lexicon, worn to influential confabs where the wearers want to signal they&#8217;re serious\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut not fussy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand innovative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/font><\/em> This is what <strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong>&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703574604574501463104873016.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> about powerful people wearing jeans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c turning jeans into Power Jeans.Whether its the <strong>Russian President <\/strong>Dmitry Medvedev&#160; coming to meet Obama or the <strong>French President Nicolas Sarkozy<\/strong> with his pretty wife, all appear powerful and relaxed in Jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the times when jeans were considered very casual and non-serious. Today, jeans worn properly can reflect that a person is creative ,non-fussy and sometimes even powerful. No surprise that in IT industry jeans are not only well accepted , but&#160; even promoted by tech icons like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Jobs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steve Jobs<\/strong><\/a><strong> of Apple<\/strong>&#160; who is considered by many as the Marlon Brando of his time. So much so that one senior executive of a well know Tech company says about jeans:<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;When someone shows up to an interview or meeting in anything other than jeans, it shows inexperience and a lack of confidence,&quot;<\/em>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image68.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"271\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-thumb68.png\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, there are still sectors (in US) which look at jeans with suspicion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Banking, Law,Accounting Firms etc. However, this would differ from country to country&#160; as popularity ,acceptability and penetration of jeans changes from region to region.<\/p>\n<p>But generally speaking, there are lot of <strong>No\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of power jeans<\/strong> if you want to get it right :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Skinny Jeans<\/li>\n<li>No Distressed Jeans<\/li>\n<li>No Embroideries<\/li>\n<li>No Baggies<\/li>\n<li>No high rise or low rise<\/li>\n<li>No Acid washes<\/li>\n<li>No Bootcuts ,shorts etc<\/li>\n<li>No holes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get the power jeans right , try the Yes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s !<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dark washes<\/li>\n<li>Straight fits<\/li>\n<li>Pressed shirt and good shoes with jeans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image69.png\" class=\"thickbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tony Blair with French Prime Minister\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"271\" alt=\"Tony Blair with French Prime Minister\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-thumb69.png\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And if you want to look really creative , do what Steve Jobs does \u00e2\u20ac\u201c wear Jeans with Black Turtles!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image70.png\" class=\"thickbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"steve jobs jeans apple\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"586\" alt=\"steve jobs jeans apple\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-thumb70.png\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703574604574501463104873016.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ<\/a> . Images via wsj,Associated Press,Getty Images etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff8000\">And for the denim industry, powerful people endorsing jeans&#160; is&#160; a good news. Denim consumption can only go northwards&#160; !<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#160; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Power jeans are increasingly common in high-ranking business and political circles. Indeed, jeans are now a legitimate part of the global power-dress lexicon, worn to influential confabs where the wearers want to signal they&#8217;re serious\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut not fussy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand innovative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. This is what Wall Street Journal&#160; says about powerful people wearing jeans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c turning jeans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[522],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denim-trends","tag-power-jeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}