Tight, acid washed black denim makes me think of a lot of things: the ’80s, the movie Clerks, the jacket my friend Sam wore in Italy when a pigeon pooped on the shoulder and he refused to wash it and wore it every day for the rest of the trip anyway… But it made me smile to be going through the last of the offerings from Australia Fashion Week, without much popping out to me until I came to Romance Was Born, specifically their use of tight, acid washed black denim. I wouldn’t say I’m necessarily condoning this, and the ugly-hot thing is more than a little schticky, but the sort of contrarian attitude demonstrated here does help make the world go round. Anyway, my point is that minus the everything they’re worn with here I actually kind of like them. Kind of.