Denim Tears Denim University Shorts Grey

The Denim Tears Denim University Shorts in Grey are a January 2024 release from Tremaine Emory's Denim Tears label applying the University graphic — a collegiate-inspired typography and insignia design that references the tradition of American university athletic shorts while embedding Denim Tears' historical and cultural narrative into the academic institutional aesthetic — to a Grey denim short construction that occupies the unexpected intersection of denim fabric and athletic shorts proportions. The use of denim as the primary fabric for a shorts cut traditionally executed in jersey, fleece, or twill creates the kind of material-context dissonance that is central to Tremaine Emory's design approach at Denim Tears, where familiar American garment forms are reconsidered through material, graphic, and cultural lens shifts that create new objects from recognizable frameworks. The University graphic draws from the tradition of HBCU and American university athletics where institutional identity is communicated through specific typographic and graphic conventions, with Denim Tears recontextualizing this collegiate visual language to connect the history of Black American educational institutions and athletic culture to the broader historical narrative the brand consistently explores. The Grey denim colorway is the most broadly wearable and most casually versatile expression of the Denim University Shorts, with the neutral grey providing the most outfit-flexible base for the University graphic across the full range of casual contexts where denim shorts are appropriate. At $95 retail the Denim University Shorts Grey were released January 23, 2024 through Denim Tears and select retail partners globally.

The Denim Tears Denim University Shorts Grey were released on January 23, 2024 with a retail price of $95.

Colorway: Grey
Style Code: SS26BRS1977
Release Date: 2024-01-23
Retail Price: 95 CHF
Gender: Men
Category: Apparel > Bottoms > Shorts
SKU: SS26BRS1977