Most distressed jeans look like someone attacked them with a cheese grater and called it fashion. The fading is wrong, the rips are placed where no natural wear would ever occur, and the whole thing reads as costume rather than clothing. Getting this right is actually harder than it looks. Real distressing follows the logic of how denim ages on a body, at the thighs, along the knee, at the hem. It looks earned rather than manufactured. The jeans in this collection get that distinction right. We have been looking specifically at pairs where the wash and the wear marks work together, where the fit is still clean enough to carry a decent shirt or a leather jacket without the whole outfit sliding into scruffy. Slim fits that do not cut off circulation. Straight cuts that do not swamp you. Nothing that belongs at a festival in 2009. These are distressed jeans for men who know the difference between worn in and worn out.