Denim Day - Friday, October 7 - am I the only participant on DU?

[bertha katzenengel]

I'm running the show for my floor here. Anyone else participating at all?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4075593&mesg_id=4075593

edited: sorry for shouting

[bertha katzenengel]

1. perplexed kick

:kick:

[DS1]

2. I'm wearing denim

[no name no slogan]

3. I won't be at work that day...

I'll be off visiting my sweetie-pie. But I imagine we'll both be wearing denim that day, anyway! :hi:

[cfield]

4. We're doing it here at the bank

...wearing demin that is. Then the March of Dimes day is November 4th so jeans again!!

[Shell Beau]

5. I wear jeans about every day! So there you go!

[auntAgonist]

6. I'm wearing denim!

yup, I'm buying new jeans just for the occassion. We have a LOT of participation at work.

I'd sure like to know the results of your tally :)

:hi:

[rbnyc]

7. All the football players at my college used to wear suits on Denim Day!

:grr:

Used to piss me off so much!

[El Fuego]

8. Friday is Casual Day at the office.

So I probably will wear denim. But what is Denim Day????

[kick-ass-bob]

9. I have no idea why I haven't heard of this before.

And I should have (for reasons I can't go into)

[rbnyc]

10. Denim Day is not what I thought it was.

I guess Denim Day is a concept that's been used for many different things.

Looks like this October Denim Day is for Breast Cancer awareness. I actually am a fundraising executive for a breast cancer non-profit, so I can get behind that.

But the first time I was exposed to Denim Day was in college. It was to show support for LGBT rights. The idea was that if you were a college student, you'd have to go pretty far out of your way not to wear denim--so who was going to show themselves to be that much of a bigot? It helped to illuminate how much prejudice was still out there.

Anyone have any other experiences with Denim Day?