I've been having a whale of a time with my coated biker jeans from Next. I had absolutely no idea they would be so comfy and so flattering. And that a pair of jeans could be so much fun!
OK, Olivia Newton John a la Sandy in Grease is not where I see myself in them. But maybe others do ...*!
Mine aren't leather, they're not even pleather but boy are they pliable. Yet they don't seem to stretch and get baggy, despite me pulling them out for every occasion under the sun since they arrived.
You see they create so many possibilities for smart, smart casual and just plain old casual.
So here's my take on 3ways2wear coated biker jeans, showing outfits I wore around Christmas.
Casual
I wore the Dotty P sweater/dress in wine, here worn at hip length.
And here at full length. I preferred the piece hoiked up to hip level. You too?
Simple silver jewellery and some black heeled boots was all this look needed.
I took this outfit to our local for a meal with friends.
I like this combo and will wear it again.
Smart Casual
On another night I wore it to pop next door for drinks with the neighbours. It's something we do each Christmas. I've been hosting for years, but this year the neighbours next door took the baton and invited all us oldies round for drinks. The invite was for 6.30 pm. I got home after midnight!
Friends popped in that afternoon, just before I was to get ready for the neighbour bash. I'd allowed myself a whole hour, which is totally necessary to scrub myself up these days and it allows for multiple outfit changes.
And of course friends being friends = lots of chat, and I was left with a mere 20 minutes to turn myself round after they departed. That's for make up, hair AND what to wear!
So, make up done. Hair, ahem, sort of done. What to wear?!!
No time for outfit changes. Instantly biker jeans came to mind. I settled hurriedly on this black metallic jumper from Next, which has metal beading around the v neckline. It's a bit edgy.
I wish I could put this next bit in the smallest font possible as I'm a little embarrassed, but I have never worn this jumper out before and it's about 5 years old. But I think it was hanging in my wardrobe patiently waiting for these bikers to come along, because to me they felt like a match that cupid had been planning all these years. They are quite simply MFEO.
So, black metallic longline sweater from Next and Gabor knee boots. No jewellery required, the sweater has all the trimmings this a girl could need. Which was lucky as I had no time for any accessories faff.
And this outfit lasted through the attention* and the wine sipping oh so very easily. As did I.
On the night.
The try on session.
I do like the juxtaposition of the rough biker vibe with the New Romantics frilliness of the blouse and the Lady-likedness the pearls. The oversized tux brings a je ne sais quoi to this outfit. Some may say it brings edge. I say it evokes a scene from a by-gone era. Or from an old movie ...
Picture a lady. A lady in Paris in the early '60s. It's around midnight, long past a Pout's usual bedtime. Picture a summer's night. It has rained earlier; the streetlights shine off the wet cobbled streets (I think we may be in some truly old part of the Marais district). Our lady steps out of the charming restaurant with her equally charming dining companion, who looks remarkably like Cary Grant. Well, that's no real surprise as she looks remarkably like Audrey Hepburn. She is wearing a simple LBD, he's in full DJ. Standard dining gear for the '60s, we're led to believe.
The precipitation in the air has made the night unseasonably chilly. She attempts to stifle a shiver. Our gentleman immediately picks up on this, slides off his tux in one effortless movement and slips it hesitantly over our lady's shoulders. No words are spoken. They smile, their eyes twinkle, they walk out onto the wet Paris street and into the night ...
And that is how wearing this tux with this frilly loose blouse makes me feel. I feel that a gentleman has seen my plight and lent me his tuxedo. Am I an old romantic or what?!!
But how I am straying away from the matter in hand! My biker jeans, done 3ways2wear. Focus, Pout!
Biker jeans stand their ground with a chunky jumper, they slip enthusiastically into party mode with the simple addition of an edgy top, and then they quietly drift into the shadows whilst the soft and feminine silk and frills take over.
So I really do think these comfortable bikers have lots of guises and probably have many more that I am yet to discover.
No matter how you choose to style them, bikers bring an instant sassy vibe to your day.
How are you doing with these edgy jeans? Avez-vous le edge yet?
*Oh and I mentioned earlier in this piece that some see these coated bikers in a ONJ-meets-Sandy light.
Well, these jeans received lots of attention when I wore them to the neighbour's party (middle pics) so why not pop over to get the full story, WINE COATED CROOKEDNESS (HERE). It's the one where these bikers transformed me from frumpy old Pout to ... "Pout ???!!" (See below!)
A la perchoine.
