My girlfriend has been pressuring me to get into the whole skinny jean thing. I have to say up until now I avoided it like the plague. But recently I’ve had a change of heart.

I was downtown last weekend when I came across this store, The Blue Chandelier. Their tagline, Home of the Skinny Jeans, how fortunate for me. I found it a little weird that none of their jeans had sizes. I figured it was a European thing so I tried on a bunch just to find a pair I liked. When I went to pay for it, the cashier asked if I was buying these for my girlfriend. Apparently The Blue Chandelier only sold women’s jeans. I bought them anyway. Mostly because they gave my butt the lift I needed. And that’s hard to find.

*Actually Blue Chandelier is my friend’s band. Check it out at bluechandelier.com. His story is an inspiring one, I’ll write about it in a future blog post. But he’s an ad kid who decided to leave it all and pursue his dream as a musician.

- Jamie Dos Santos