You could go so far as to say no great menswear wardrobe is complete without perhaps one of the all-time men's style classics: the blue jean. Or rather, a pair of the best men's jeans, period.

Regardless of how you wear them, what those items all have in common is that they have a long history in the United States, helping to shape what we think about when we think of American style.

American Eagle shoppers, including a number of celebrities and beauty queens, trooped to the branch at SM Aura recently to get their favorite pair of AE jeans customized with chains, charms and ...