With news this week that a Bradford shop-owner has been jailed for selling fake designer clothing along with a story back in April about two men in Dorset being jailed for selling designer knock-offs, we’ve been thinking that fashion-savvy consumers should be pleased that the police are cracking down on the lucrative business of knock-off clothing. Sure, you may think you’re getting a bargain when you spend £10 for a replica of a pair of designer jeans that would normally cost ten times that, but as consumers, you’re losing out in so many other ways.

Designer clothing costs a lot because of the care and attention that goes into its production. Clothing designers choose the best fabrics, pay close attention to the detail of the cut so every fold and every line flatters the wearer, and they spend extra time on production to make certain that the clothing you buy holds up to repeated wear.

Fake designer gear may look okay on the rack, but it simply won’t look as good when you wear it, it will not last as long in your closet and, quite frankly, it belittles the creativity, skill and effort that goes into every piece of clothing that a fashion designer creates. In the end, wouldn’t you rather have one great pair of jeans that makes you look fabulous than ten pairs of cheap jeans that stretch, sag and fall to bits?

We’ve been featured on top fashion blog Denimology this week. These guys are experts in the world of designer jeans and their blog is always worth a look. They did, however, miss one crucial thing about our jeans being designed to be worn “low [and] loose” which is that this also means they’re designed to be really comfortable!

The BBC reports that the dye used in blue jeans and ballpoint pens has light sensitive properties that can zap cancer cells.

Apparently when exposed to a special laser a compound taken from the blue dye can produce a special form of oxygen. By placing this into cancer cells scientists can zap them like never before.

We always said a pair of designer jeans could make you feel good!

According to, the BBC, the town of Delacambre, Louisiana, has officially become the most unfashionable place in the United States after it passed a law making it illegal to wear low slung jeans that may result in the waistband of your underwear showing. It seems that anybody who makes the mistake of wearing low rise jeans now faces a fine of $500 and up to 6-months in prison.

So, what the unfashion police are saying here is they don’t want anybody wearing stylish clothing and they certainly don’t believe that fashion should be a form of self-expression. Surely, however, they are missing the point of designer fashion – if we can’t use clothing to express our moods and our personalities then we may as well all wear uniforms all the time.

Over the years, new fashions have always shocked and outraged the establishment just before they entered mainstream acceptance. In Victorian times cross-dressing was illegal and any woman caught wearing men’s trousers could be arrested, yet today we love seeing our girlfriends and wives wearing our clothes. More recently, in the late 1970’s the tabloid press printed article after article expressing concern over the possibility that punk subculture was going to destroy British society – today you can buy Ramones t-shirts and Clash t-shirts in H&M and Topshop.

By drawing attention to the rebellious nature of revealing your underwear while wearing low rise jeans, this uptight town in Louisiana has just ensured that anybody who believes in freedom of expression will be wearing this style soon, preferably with underwear that expresses just what they think of these absurd efforts to stop them.

We spotted an article in Forbes about styles of jeans that are appropriate for the office which is pretty spot-on. Although a lot of businesses now allow employees to dress more casually, it is important to look stylish and neat, whatever the dress code at your office may be. Here at Schultz, we’re partial to our own designer jeans when we’re working, a fact which probably comes as a huge surprise to our loyal readers, which is one of the reasons we designed Schultz jeans to be so versatile.

Based on Forbes rules about appropriate jeans for the office, we’d recommend our Blouberg and our Rockview styles in particular. Just make sure that you remember to button them up when you’re at work.