I'm trying to talk about blue jeans. Am I doing it right?

Question

For this sentence, I’m trying to write a description of blue jeans without revealing exactly what I’m talking about. I’m trying to refer to them as “An article of clothing,” but I’m having a hard time with this.

My description should roughly translate to:

My favorite article of clothing is blue. I can buy it in the clothing store. The brand of the article of clothing is Levi and it’s very fashionable. It can appear nice when it’s old, also.

Here’s what I have:

Mi una ropa favorita es azul. Puedo comprar en la tienda de ropa. La marca de una ropa es Levi y es muy de moda. La puede bonita cuando es viejo, también.

"Ropa" is a general term. If you need to talk about just one article of clothing in order to describe it, you can use the word "prenda": "Mi prenda (de vestir) favorita es azul". - Cordobesa, Nov 21, 2014

Answer 1

Mi ropa favorita es la azul. Puedo comprarla en la tienda de ropa. La marca de ropa es Levi y está muy de moda. Puede parecer ¿bonita? incluso siendo vieja.

This is the correct translation as you tried, but for me this looks like a children text (both english and spanish)

I am not sure that "la" is needed before azul. " Mi ropa favorita es azul." - lebysaul, Nov 21, 2014

For me "Mi ropa favorita es azul" have no sense. Example: Mi comida favorita son LOS macarrones. If you say it without LA, it looks like that of all of your clothes you prefer one which is blue. If you put la you talk in general - txustaboy, Nov 21, 2014

How about "es de color azul" ? That version gets rid of the problem. To say"mi ropa favorta es azul" you are saying my favorite clothing is blue- the color. If you say " mi ropa favorita es la azul" you are saying " the blue one" Azul can be an adjectiv - Daniela2041, Nov 22, 2014

an adjective or a noun "los macarrones" can only be a noun. Cordobesa said it best of all when she said "prenda" which means "article of clothig." - Daniela2041, Nov 22, 2014

I should have looked more carefully at Cordobesa's answer. It's great! Wow! - Daniela2041, Nov 22, 2014