Today is National Denim Day. Celebrated on the last Wednesday of April, Denim Day started as a campaign against sexual assault apologists. In the summer of 1998, an 18-year-old Italian girl was raped by her 45-year-old driving instructor. One year later, the perpetrator was released after the court overturned his sentence. He argued (successfully) that the girl had engaged in consensual sex with him because she was wearing tight jeans that could only have been taken off with her help. The decision sparked worldwide outrage and, the next day, Italian women showed up in jeans at their workplace to protest the absurdity of the overturned sentence.
Today, CGG joins an estimated 11 million people worldwide, including our friends at Shelter House, wearing denim against victim-blaming attitudes in sexual assault cases.