For years, there was a running joke among my colleagues, at both the store I worked at and the denim-focused website I wrote for, that I didn’t wear jeans. They weren’t entirely wrong. I respected the ...

A little over a decade ago, I got a job as a sales associate at Unionmade Goods, a now-defunct clothing store in San Francisco. As far as retail gigs went, it wasn’t bad: enthusiastic customers, ...