# Have you ever heard of "Denim Day" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 5, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846 "2011-05-05T16:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/1 "2011-05-05T16:02:42Z")
Why am I just hearing about [this?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim_Day) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/2 "2011-05-05T16:03:27Z")
Not under that name. What is it? ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/3 "2011-05-05T16:26:59Z")
I’ve never heard of it. I thought you meant Jeans for Genes day. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/4 "2011-05-05T17:21:11Z")
I’d heard of Denim Day, but not in the context of rape. We had a “Denim Day” back in college in 1989-ish to raise awareness of GLBT issues. It didn’t go well. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/5 "2011-05-05T17:26:45Z")
I’ve never heard of “Denim Day.” If you were to ask me, I would have thought it to be some kind of offshoot of Casual Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/6 "2011-05-05T17:27:31Z")
Eh. When I was in high school, various causes had “Wear blue jeans day” to show support for their cause. Often there was little publicity, and we only found out on the day itself, when the organizers went around congratulating themselves on the huge turnout of people wearing blue jeans. Never mind that almost everyone wore blue jeans almost every day. It’s like “breathe if you support my pet cause!” day or something. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/7 "2011-05-05T17:43:47Z")
Yep. We have a denim day at work fr this very cause. Of course, where I work, restorative justice themes are frequently sounded. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/8 "2011-05-05T17:51:17Z")
The one I was aware of was also called “Gay Blue-jeans Day”. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/9 "2011-05-05T20:15:57Z")
Nope, never heard of it. (Thought better of adding a snarky comment about the idea.) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/10 "2011-05-05T20:23:20Z")
He used to sing on the old Jack Benny show, didn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/11 "2011-05-05T20:26:12Z")
I’ve heard of it, know the story behind it, and support it. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/12 "2011-05-05T20:32:27Z")
The nos seem to have it. At my old job, we used to have a denim day but it was more like causal Friday and you had to pay five dollars. The five dollars SUPPOSEDLY went to a children’s hospital. I doubt that, and many other things about that place, and quit working there a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/13 "2011-05-05T20:32:43Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Eh. When I was in high school, various causes had “Wear blue jeans day” to show support for their cause. Often there was little publicity, and we only found out on the day itself, when the organizers went around congratulating themselves on the huge turnout of people wearing blue jeans. > > Never mind that almost everyone wore blue jeans almost every day. > > It’s like “breathe if you support my pet cause!” day or something. In college, we had a “Gay Blue Jeans Day”, where they announced that everyone who was either gay or “in sympathy with the gay movement” should wear blue jeans. You never saw so much corduroy in your life (this was in the '70s - gay acceptance wasn’t what it is today). I was wearing cords myself, but that was because that was pretty much what I always wore - I hadn’t heard about it ahead of time. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/14 "2011-05-05T20:50:40Z")
I’ve read about that incident, and the judge’s ruling, but I didn’t know about Denim Day. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/15 "2011-05-05T22:24:11Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > The nos seem to have it. At my old job, we used to have a denim day but it was more like causal Friday and you had to pay five dollars. The five dollars SUPPOSEDLY went to a children’s hospital. I doubt that, and many other things about that place, and quit working there a few years back. Huh. My current place of employment has regular Jeans Fridays, it costs 5 bucks, and the money most definitely goes to Doernbecher’s Children’s Hospital. Wonder if we worked together? (And I’d never heard of the OP’s Denim Day before. Is it just me, or is there no date on that Wiki page?) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/16 "2011-05-05T22:32:10Z")
Never heard of it. When I was in college in the late 90s, Oct 19 (I think?) was declared Gay Blue Jeans Day, but mostly what it led to was a lot of silly letters to the editors in the school paper. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/17 "2011-05-05T22:42:41Z")
I’d heard of the events leading up to it, but I didn’t know it was called that. At my last job we had something similar a few times, although it was for a different cause–I can’t even remember what it was. The general idea was that you would wear jeans as many days as the number of dollars you donated, up to the number of non-Friday-casual working days in the month. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/18 "2011-05-05T22:50:42Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Huh. My current place of employment has regular Jeans Fridays, it costs 5 bucks, and the money most definitely goes to Doernbecher’s Children’s Hospital. Wonder if we worked together? > > (And I’d never heard of the OP’s Denim Day before. Is it just me, or is there no date on that Wiki page?) No, I live on the east coast. It’s not so much they charged, they did a lot of shady things in general. I was very glad to find my current job. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/19 "2011-05-06T09:27:50Z")
Sounds like something Jay Leno would like, since all he wears at home is denim. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846/20 "2011-05-06T11:25:06Z")
I’ve also heard of it in the GLBT context, and even participated. One year, the conservatives at school tried to pull “Sneakers for the Sanctity of Marriage” knowing that most of us wore sneakers. This was supposed to be a stealth campaign meant as a “Gotcha! You do so agree with us!” but word of this skulduggery got out a day or so before, so we were prepared with non-sneaker footwear as a “fuck you” to the organizers of this event. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-denim-day/580846.md?page=2)