There is an ongoing joke from my college days about my love for denim (Rob Johnson). Back in the day, I would wear denim on denim on denim on denim. *Please note that denim on denim is ok, denim on denim on denim is not.

See, so much denim.

Then the following years after college, I stopped wearing my favorite blue jeans, then tapered off wearing my jean jackets and so on. I am not sure if it was because I had lost an enormous amount of weight and couldn't find the right fit or because I was more comfortable wearing stretchy, but the love affair with denim was put on hold.

This summer I decided to figure out a way to wear denim that is chic, sophisticated and still comfortable. And what did I find... a new love affair, chambray, grown up denim!

So what is chambray...

“A chambray is a plain weave fabric woven with a colored yarn in the warp and a white yarn in the weft. Like chambray, denim is made with a colored yarn in the warp and white in the weft, but is woven in a twill construction.”

Essentially, its kind of the same, except how its woven. The hand though, is so much softer. The colors are usually a bit more muted.

With my new obsession for chambray and my old love denim, here are some of my favorite ways to wear both!