We Two
Issue #28
These lovebirds conquer all with their band and their “loose moves” style
By Marisa Meltzer
Published: June 1st, 2006 | 12:00am
When two people fall in love and decide to broadcast their love to the world, it’s a very fine line between charming and annoying. For Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans, the chips are stacked against them: they refer to each other as “The Homie”; they have matching side-swept hair; they shop together and wear each other’s clothes; they have a concept band, We Two — which will be touring the west coast this summer — about their relationship; and even their Web site, famousforlikingeachother.com, has a countdown to the very second of their one-year anniversary. And yet despite — or maybe because — of their high concept love, they somehow manage to not be annoying in the least.
“I think our fashion spirit was alike before we started dating, for sure, as was our general aesthetic,” Evans says. Bechtolt even prefers wearing Evans’ jeans — a pair of Built By Wendy Wranglers — because “they smell like “The Homie,” but also they fit amazingly well. I've had trouble finding jeans I love for the past four years. I only have one pair and they don't have knees.” The kneeless grunge jeans are what he’s wearing here, along with a knit Garfield sweater. Evans sports a matching Odi sweater with a pair of ripped stonewash shorts that she bought as jeans at H&M six year ago. “I have deep feelings for them. I will wear them until they are dust and then mourn the dust,” she says. “They're also the most grunge thing I have.”
Together they share not only a highly developed love of grunge but a far-reaching and specific aesthetic that Bechtolt describes alternately as “tender laser eagle baby colors and jeans” and “cool dudes with loose moods.” When asked to describe a few of the objects of their collective obsession, Evans says, “You know, Garfield, Freddy vs. Jason, normal stuff.” She loves they way her neighbors in Los Angeles dress. “They are two blond brothers from some mythic Santa Barbara hippie childhood who dress like hobo shamans,” she says. “They do something which I really admire and have always done myself, which is to wear certain articles of clothing purely because they like them conceptually, like weird shorts, flip-flops with socks, ponchos, crazy colors.”
Evans gets a little shamed admitting that she wore the combo of leggings and Keds until she was 16. “No, that sounds really cute!” Bechtolt says, because even through awkward outfits, love conquers all.
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