Munich - Dressing in denim from head to toe can be too much of a good thing. A pair of jeans topped with a denim shirt is already overdoing it, according to Munich style consultant Georg Stiels. Add a jeans jacket and you have double trouble.

"No more than one denim article should be worn at a time," pronounced Stiels. "Or at least the cloth should be confined to one part of the body" - wear either a denim top or a denim bottom, in other words.

"An all-denim outfit always seems rather coarse. It awakens associations of cowboys and construction workers," Stiels remarked. While this was not necessarily a bad thing, he said, it looked out of place on occasion.

As far as women's denim trousers suits are concerned, Stiels said the cloth and wash should be absolutely identical. If the washes are different, distressed, brushed, sprayed or embroidered, he said, then the articles should be considered individual items and not worn together. (dpa)