After much trial and error, I’ve developed my ultimate denim pre-purchase test.
I don’t know about you but I used to routinely buy jeans that looked great in the store but never quite worked for my real life.
Over time I developed a very elaborate dressing room test sequence to try and avoid this situation. It started with getting them on, then how did they look, then how did they feel. Stand. Sit. Walk. Squat. Lunge. Quad stretch. Figure four. And on and on.
Needless to say, this took awhile. And multiplied by multiple pairs of jeans (because we all know the first one never fits), made the whole thing quite an ordeal.
But it helped.
Going through all these motions increased the chances of my wearing and using and liking the pants I bought.
But the ordeal was a real PITA.
Now I do one thing to test a pair of jeans. This is my ultimate denim pre-purchase test:
After I put them on, see how they look, and see how they feel, I sit cross legged kindergarten style on whatever seat / bench / ledge they have (obviously never the floor of a dressing room unless I’m about the faint, because eww) and write a long email / messages or a short essay (such as this).
If the jeans are comfortable sitting cross legged and focusing on something else, and I still like them after, then they will probably work in my day to day life.
And it’s a lot easier than doing lunges and squats in a dressing room.