Forever Jeans

I’ll be a much happier person and a better one over-all if I could just wear jeans everyday. I’ll strut around confidently, sit anywhere and anyhow I like without having to worry about exposing my womanhood to the whole world, and just be more relaxed and contented with my life. I just know it.

My love affair with jeans started in college. Oh, I wore them as early as grade school, but it was in college that I wouldn’t wear anything else. I had the odd dress and skirt for weddings and stuff, but if I had any shopping money I rushed to the nearest Levi’s store. Now I’ve branched out to jeans from Kamiseta, Bayo and Plains and Prints. (I try to patronize these brands. Lovely clothes of good quality. And proudly Pinoy, best of all.)

I remember my interview in the SCAA. It has got to be one of the shortest ever – I think less than 10 minutes, and half the time I was grilled on an issue completely unrelated to the legal profession: why I was wearing jeans. I made up some excuse about coming to the interview straight from a summer vacation in the province, but the truth was, it just didn’t occur to me to dress up coz all the law students and even some of the professors wore jeans to class anyway. Duh? I did wear my prettiest floral top. What more could they ask for?

When I was pregnant, the one thing I missed most was wearing jeans. Oh, I had those jeans for preggies with adjustable buttons to fit all trimesters and all, but it’s not just the same wearing jeans when you have a grossly distended belly. I would’ve worn jeans going home from the hospital right after I gave birth, except that my episiotomy was still so raw and sore. Ouch.

The book The Five People You Meet in Heaven talks about a certain moment which will stand out over all the others in memory when you think of your true love. It could be the first time you met, or your wedding day as your bride walks down the aisle, or whatever. I asked PC what his one-true-love memory of me was, and he said it was when I’d wait for him in the SICC Gallery in between putt, wearing my jeans and a big smile like I was the happiest girl on earth.

For once, my he knows just the right answer to my question, exactly what I wanted to hear. Wonders will never cease.