Paris Blues

Good friends are like a good pair of jeans. When you find a pair that fits you just right, you form a loyalty with it. For the first few months, those jeans stand out amongst the rest of your wardrobe. You wear them to special occasions: dates, parties, or casual Friday. You watch your step to make sure that the edges don’t fray, and wash them often to break them in. And then, like the effect time has on most things, you begin to set those jeans aside. You buy new clothes: capris, mini-skirts, gaucho pants. When getting ready for work, you look past those jeans and head directly for the pair of pinstripe slacks. When there’s a shift in season, you would much rather wear a summer dress. But at the end of the day, when you’re in a rush to head out the door and have no clue what to wear… you reach for those jeans because they’re reliable. You know you’ll feel comfortable wearing them no matter what. And when you look down to see that a small tear is beginning to form in the pocket, you begin realize that you have to take better care of them. You sew up the tear and begin to wash them in the gentle cycle. They’ve become a lot more fragile than they were in the beginning. But even then, you know that they’re still reliable. And no matter how many times you’ve jumped from one outfit to the next, those jeans are the pair that you reach for at the end of the day... because no matter what the weather is outside, it's those jeans that make your ass look great.