The Best Of Brown Jeans
Brown jeans have quietly taken the place blue denim used to hold in a lot of wardrobes, and the reason is boring and practical: they read as trousers. A chocolate straight leg with a knit and a loafer looks composed in a way indigo rarely does, and the warm end of the range, the ash and oat and stone washes, behaves like a neutral you can build a whole week around. The catch is that brown is a much wider colour family than blue. Cedar, carob, raisin and burnished quartz are not interchangeable, and the shade decides whether the jean is a workwear piece or an evening one. Below, twenty pairs sorted by price, from a seventy eight dollar wide leg to a rodeo jean at three fifty, with notes on which shades actually earn their place.
