Post-prandial Armitage jeans musing

I see I missed a few picture updates. I still have a life, and I needed to go out to dinner with my colleagues because I thought something in particular might be discussed, and it was, and I needed to say what I thought about it, and I did. All good. Which was fine.

I came back to this picture (I probably saw it linked from either Jas or Zan), and it intrigued me — I thought, huh, what an odd stance (for him) he has in that picture; he looks a little bowlegged. So I looked at it in iPhoto, and heavily overexposed it, to get a look at his stance, which meant I got a closer look at the apparently controversial jeans, too. I don’t know why he’s standing that way, but I appreciate the light exposure between his thighs so I could get a closer look at the jeans.

I’m going to say that, with minor quibbles, I quite like how Mr. Armitage has been dressed. Whoever is dressing him, I feel, has found a good compromise between the kind of things he might like to wear (about which I extrapolate, based on some of the funnier things we’ve seen him, which I assume he wears because he might like them) and the sort of things that are in style. He’s wearing some things that can be matched to current trends, but not in a flashy way; his style is working for him and not against him the last couple of days. Also, I’ve said it before and will say it again, I don’t think he really has the ideal leg / hip build to look great in most jeans, and while I know they are the everyman’s uniform of our century, for me many of the jeans cuts he has worn in the last few years, which have followed the styles rather than what looks good on him, have worked against one of his best features — those extremely long legs.

When I overexposed this photo and looked at his legs, I thought, yes. That is why he wore those jeans. It is still a skinnier jean than I might put him in to start, but it has a look a lot closer to the basic straight leg that is not stylish but best for his body. These jeans give him a really, really long leg without overemphasizing his very muscular upper thighs or making them look too hefty, and without emphasizing the broadness of his hips, either, or the length of his feet. Indeed, the bottom of the jean looks almost like a pant rather than a jean, so they have an unconsciously dressy look.

In short: We’re aware of his musculature and strength in these jeans, but we’re also quite aware of that long, long, leg. Just as we should be.

~ by Servetus on November 27, 2012.