Search columnist and author George F. Will in the Washington Post – “Demon Denim” 4/16/09.

Provocative to say the least. I think (hope) that he means it as an intentional exaggeration.

Excerpts:
On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested when he was that age, judging by his clothes. Father and son are dressed identically -- running shoes, T-shirts. And jeans, always jeans. If mother is there, she, too, is draped in denim.
Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling -- thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism -- of believing that appearance matters. That heresy leads to denying the universal appropriateness of everything, and then to the elitist assertion that there is good and bad taste.
The associated article by Daniel Akst in the Wall Street Journal 3/20/09 “Down with Denim" is also shall we say ”interesting”.