Business casual choice for ‘Bachelor’

New York Who Aaron Buerge ends up with on ABC’s “The Bachelor” remains to be seen, but we already know what he’ll be wearing on his dates.

“On a date, if we’re having drinks and getting something to eat, I’d probably go business casual. I probably wouldn’t wear a tie,” says Buerge, 28.

It’s the same uniform that the senior vice president of a bank in Springfield, Mo., wears most days. “I don’t wear a suit to work regularly but I like to get dressed up,” he says. “On the weekends, I’m trendier, maybe in camper shoes and dark- blue jeans and a nice shirt untucked. I like form-fitting clothes.”

Before he began on his televised “Bachelor” journey, Buerge spent a full day sorting through his Alfani wardrobe choices. He ended up with several blue and green shirts and lighter suits in gray and steel blue.

While he’s not a clotheshorse, Buerge says he enjoys shopping, “but I’d rather pick stuff for other people.”

Men known to collect 5 to 10 pairs of jeans

New York Women are known to collect shoes. Men, it seems, collect jeans. More than half of jeans-wearing men own between five and 10 pairs, with Generation Xers owning the most, according to the retailer Old Navy, which recently conducted a survey of 500 men with the market research company RoperASW.

The jeans aren’t collecting dust in the closet, either.

Most of the men said they wear jeans an average of four days a week. Favorite features of jeans include pockets, price, ruggedness and the machine-washable label.

“Denim is easy to take care of which is important when you’re in them four days a week,” says Jonathan Finn, Old Navy’s director of public relations and field marketing.