jeans-y

jeans-y (comparative more jeans-y, superlative most jeans-y)

1. Alternative form of jeansy.
   • 2001 December 14, Rose Aiden, Maggie Davis, Sarah Donaldson, Dominic Lutyens, Neil McLennan, Anna Pursglove, Ian Tucker, Polly Vernon, Charlotte Williamson, “The taste dictators”, in Mimi Spencer, editor, ES Magazine, London, →OCLC, page 22, column 1:

     Perhaps more importantly, she [Rikke Korff]’s widely recognised as having reconfirmed Levi’s once-flagging status as a design innovator. Korff says that her job involves ‘directing and shaping ideas so that they’re on message. Tough and sexy and jeans-y. Authentic and simple.’

   • 2008 July 6, Constance Harris, “All’s sweet in the garden of Eden”, in Sunday Independent, volume 103, number 27, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Living section, page 9, column 2:

     A jeans-y casual element is also very important and labels such as See by Chloe, Citizens of Humanity and Tocca fill those gaps.

   • 2014 April 11, Alison Rosen, “I destroyed my perfect black jeans”, in Lisa Wall, editor, The News Herald, volume 129, number 87, Morganton, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C2, columns 1–2:

     But back to the jeans. They were perfect, but then I essentially suffered Munchausen by proxy with them. “They smell funny,” I thought. “Jeans-y. And they’re getting stretched out.” […] I’m now the owner of a pair of very tight, fuzzy looking dark grey jeans that, if possible, smell even more “jeans-y” than before.