What would we do without denim! Simple, casual, sexy, raunchy, smoking hot—denim is the one garment that falls into every category of clothing imaginable. The X-generation dude might not give a squat about art, might not possibly care about classics or literature, but boy, doesn’t he know denim!

What then, does the compulsive denim dresser do when recession is condensing his/her wardrobe? You know, the thing about denim is it ages more handsomely than George Clooney. You wear it, you party in it, go on a vacation, come back, live in and it just acquires more and more character. Well, bottom line is, you don’t have to buy a boatload of denim—especially not in recession though there are lines of recession-friendly denim you might want to check out—as long as you are sporting the in-vogue looks. Exactly what a true denim connoisseur would do.

Talking about trends, yeah skinny is in. Old news. Like every new denim trend or more than most, skinny jeans caught on with the wardrobes like wildfire. But if you feel like you just got to have one more pair, recession or no recession, in a totally Rebecca Bloomwood kind of way, I’d say go for J Brand’s ‘Houlihan’ look . Two words—cargos and skinny. How much better can it get! Hillary Duff and Kim Kardashian were spotted sporting these exotic  totally-stare-able jeans.

If you don’t have one in the latest shade, you shouldn’t miss out on the inky look. I’ll give you one good reason—deep colored denim is the perfect excuse to sport a denim shirt too! Don’t you dig the totally denim look Reese Witherspoon was sporting in a faded denim shirt, cap and inky jeans?

You must’ve heard about Rock and Republic’s recession line by now, making waves in the markets as you can imagine. So you know you can get a fabulous pair of inky skinny jeans without berating yourself for years to follow. Clever marketing strategy or not, Gap did the same too by re-launching its 1969 premium denim line. If you’re thinking it’s just a strategy, you’re wrong since you will be able to afford these brands for actually less than half their normal collections are priced at.

G-Star Raw didn’t really release a recession line. But it doesn’t take much to guess how it is recession friendly—the brand’s USP. A G-Star Raw’s regular raw denim pair might look plain as any old jeans in your wardrobe. But the beauty of it is, the untouched denim wears on you. The creases and patches, etc. etc. all that designer denim brags about can be custom created according to your own personality! So you’re wearing the same jeans all through the year but it looks different every month ‘and’ nobody’s G-Star pair looks the same as yours. The perfect G-Star look is yours to achieve—no hidden costs.