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You know...I don't know about taking advice from this guy. And what, for women, it's easy to find another alternative for everyday clothing for just about any occasion. For men, not so much. You have either jeans, khakis, or corduroys. Anything else gets either underdressed or overdressed.

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Wow! Now that my employer has a new dress code which specifically bans "blue jeans", I want to wear them all the time (which is what I did before the dress code, unless I was leaving work later in the day to attend a funeral).

I must call attention to his concluding paragraph, as it has a UNT connection:

"(A confession: The author owns one pair of jeans. Wore them once. Had to. Such was the dress code for former senator Jack Danforth's 70th birthday party, where Jerry Jeff Walker sang his classic "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother." Music for a jeans-wearing crowd.)"

Ray Wylie Hubbard, who attended North Texas, wrote "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother". I went to a concert back when I was in school at then NTSU, where (I can't remember if it was Ray Wylie or Jerry Jeff) it was performed. My "girlfriend" at the time insisted on leaving after it was played, saying in so many words that it was an ethnic slur against rural Americans (unfortunately, it wasn't enough to get her to leave me, or me her...yet). A couple of years ago, the women's group at my church sponsored a concert by Ray Wylie. At the break, I mentioned that incident to him; at the start of the second half of his show, he introduced that song by saying that I had "twisted his arm...told him that he HAD to play that song". It was an honor being used as a straight man by Ray Wylie Hubbard.

I like a lot of what George Will writes, but this is an indication of humorlessness on his part. He needs a major dose of listening to music by Ray Wylie Hubbard, including "Conversation with the Devil". Still, "Up Against the Wall" was a simple song, with a self destructive message. Ray Wylie Hubbard has since become so much more than that since then, but his change isn't in outward appearance, but inner triumph over his own devils:

A good internet piece on Ray Wylie Hubbard

A great quote from the above: "The well-told story is that Robert Johnson met the devil at the crossroads and sold his soul for the blues. That story could apply to Ray Wylie Hubbard, except that in the modern re-telling, the devil may get the man’s soul, but Hubbard would walk away with at least twenty bucks from the fiery one’s pocket … the devil would definitely want to listen to this new album while driving down the dark, blue highway and Ray ain’t givin’ em away for free."

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I have actually found myself wearing less denim. Long gone is every pair of jorts I ever owned, replaced with khaki carpenter shorts or linen cabos (both are far more comfortable, especially in Texas heat). I now own two pairs of jeans, and I really only break those out during the winter.

Oh, and George Will is a tool.

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I have actually found myself wearing less denim. Long gone is every pair of jorts I ever owned, replaced with khaki carpenter shorts or linen cabos (both are far more comfortable, especially in Texas heat). I now own two pairs of jeans, and I really only break those out during the winter.

Oh, and George Will is a tool.

There is nothing wrong with jeans, Wow Jorts, when were they last in fashion? 86? Jeans have and will always have a place, I remember in the mid 80's most clubs in Dallas had a no jeans policy. Pants had to have a pressed cress. I remember running into some guys I knew from Garland/Mesquite at the time and they had actually pressed there jeans so they would not have to buy pants. I could not believe how cheap they were or how WT it looked. Then a several years later bang people all over were pressing their Jeans, wow Jeans really. To this day I have never and I mean never pressed jeans, I always went with pants if pressed was needed.

I do like jeans and I enjoy them, for everyday use and casual wear, especially an old pair when working on planes and cars.

As Flyer says George Will is a Douche, I mean tool.

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There is nothing wrong with jeans, Wow Jorts, when were they last in fashion? 86? Jeans have and will always have a place, I remember in the mid 80's most clubs in Dallas had a no jeans policy. Pants had to have a pressed cress. I remember running into some guys I knew from Garland/Mesquite at the time and they had actually pressed there jeans so they would not have to buy pants. I could not believe how cheap they were or how WT it looked. Then a several years later bang people all over were pressing their Jeans, wow Jeans really. To this day I have never and I mean never pressed jeans, I always went with pants if pressed was needed.

I do like jeans and I enjoy them, for everyday use and casual wear, especially an old pair when working on planes and cars.

As Flyer says George Will is a Douche, I mean tool.

He made a good straight man for SNL's "White Trash Bed and Breakfast" segments.

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