<i>They block UV poorly</i>

This is categorically wrong. Dark denim has a UPF of roughly 1700. Jeans are pretty much the perfect sunblock, if that concerns you.

I confess to having the most up to date fashion information available on Fodors. I was in Milan yesterday.

There were an awful lot of people wearing black trainers with jeans.

...but then there were also a person wearing orange boots, green tights, orange skirt and a green coat....but it was Milan.

Top of the tree this year seemed to be blue padded, country (Barbour) style jackets.

Take a look, here is what is being worn in Paris:

http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com...&page=1#104199

People of the 18. arrondissement do not necessarily
represent all of Paris.

Geez, looks like Florida, nothing special at all about that. I think this subject is funny because I work at an international airport and we can pick out who is from where by their clothes, France does not rank real high on the style radar. Italian women and men are a different story. STYLE!!!
I try to wear black leather shoes when in the city, keen hiking boots if we are going to the country, jeans are my number one choice because I can wear them for two days before washing. I bought nice yoga pants for travel days and to slip on in the hotel or apartment. I stick with black for tops and dress up with scarves. I love the Barbour style jackets!

Jeans and sneakers have NEVER been taboo for several years except for fine dinning.

Gina, you wrote:
<i>And sneakers....I made the mistake of bright and white new Nikes in Italy a decade ago...lol I learned. </i>

What's the story? What did you learn about Nikes in Italy??

Would it be wrong to note that we have covered this topic ad nauseam?

I know, I know, new Fodorites...a topic that will never die or be settled.

I wore jeans the first time I went to Europe in 1960.
I wore jeans the last time I went to Europe in 2010.
I will wear jeans the next time I go to Europe in 2012.

The only change will be a darker wash and a slightly
larger size.

You will "scream tourist" only if you wear loose-fitting jeans. With tight jeans, you will fit right in.

Are you insinuating that we don't have young people with their jeans falling off and their underwear showing?

The only thing you can't wear in Paris is a niqab!

I just returned from Paris. Saw lots of jeans. In fact, I wear jeans on my flight there & flight home as they are heavier than my other pants. Depending on weather, wear what is comfortable for you. With a nice looking jacket and a scarf, you will fit right in.(but no white tennis shoes).

Enjoy!

I just returned from Paris. Saw lots of jeans. In fact, I wear jeans on my flight there & flight home as they are heavier than my other pants. Depending on weather, wear what is comfortable for you. With a nice looking jacket and a scarf, you will fit right in.(but no white tennis shoes).

Enjoy!

Years ago, a Calvin Klein ad showed a model with
his wearing jeans low enough to show his label on the top
of his underwear-that took off!

I agree with immimi...I wore jeans my first trip to Europe in 1983 and every year thereafter. I wore jeans on each of my four trips to Europe this year, and I will wear jeans next year. I don't have the problem of drying them. The lycra helps with this and they don't seem to be as heavy as the jeans from years ago.

A final word from me. Be sure your sneakers are clean. The French wear alot of a very light sneaker called Bensimon.
Theres's a few shop in Paris. I buy most of mine in St Remy.
They come in alot of colors

We probably don't want to think about this but I worked with a woman whose husband worked for the FAA investigating plane crashes. He always wears cotton, jeans and leather boots when flying as they don't melt to the skin like polyester in the event of a fire.

I was just in Paris a few weeks ago. Jeans everywhere. I saw many nicely dressed hip women and men in nice dark-wash jeans, plus a number of men in medium washes. (But I also saw plenty of [mainly] older men and women in lighter washes.) Just like hip urbanites in any major American city, though, if they wore sneakers, they were more like the sleek, retro kind. Definitely not the white, athletic shoe kind.

BTW, most jeans "experts" advise washing your jeans very rarely - perhaps every 6 months to a year, so the drying issue may be moot. The usually advice is to hang them up to air out after wearing and leave it at that.

And the concerns over drying also assumes you wash your clothing in the sink rather than sending it down to the hotel laundry to be dry cleaned. I could count on one hand the number of times I've had to do laundry while on the road. Given the infrequency, I'm more than happy to pay someone else to do it.