Joy Bryant has been wearing her new Stitch “Cherokee” jeans for two days straight, which would be insignificant had it been two ordinary days. But the 29-year-old actress has spent them doing a flurry of press for 50 Cent’s big-screen biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin’, in which she plays Charlene, the rapper’s girlfriend and baby mama.

While she wears her older pair of Stitch jeans in the movie and in a photo with 50 Cent for GQ, she’s worn the spankin’ new baby blues to a shoot for the cover of Paper Magazine, and to do two hours of talk radio for Eminem’s station Shade 45. She chose these jeans the way she chooses all her clothes: “It’s all about how I’m feeling…just easygoing,” she explains with a shrug. “Not like a big to-do. Your style should suit your personality.”

Whether it’s jeans, jewelry from Urban Outfitters (“everyone always thinks it’s from somewhere else,” she admits) or the YSL dress she’s wearing to the film’s L.A. premiere, Bryant has the true gift for making it all -- whether high-style or low -- look effortless.

Since moving to L.A. from New York four years ago, her style has become more about being comfortable with herself: “Some days I want to look like a Keebler elf. I don’t care.”

Elf look aside, today she’s wearing the Stitch jeans with a Vivienne Westwood coat, a Mossimo T-shirt from Target, a wrap cardigan from Urban Outfitters, Michael Kors wedge loafers, and argyle socks. Her day-to-day look is mostly jeans with flats or moccasin boots, and basics from one of her favorite stores, American Apparel: “I love it for cotton pieces. I’ll take a wife beater dress and trick it out. Or the henley T-shirt dress with a belt and leggings, or over jeans.” For night she usually wears a jacket or drapey top from a favorite L.A. designer Karen Zambos: “Her stuff is awesome. She uses vintage fabrics. If it’s not one-of-a-kind then there are only a few of them.”

Of her new Stitch jeans: she likes ‘em. “The cut is perfect. I like the slouchy look: a little bit wider then the boot cut, low in the hips, saggy in the butt. The length is super-long so I can wear them with a heel or platform. And the denim is soft. They’re aged in redwood barrels. And they use buttons that are modeled after antique coins,” explains the actress, who’s actually found the time to do some investigative work. And she’s donned a big customized “Joy” belt buckle – tying it all together effortlessly, as we’ve come to expect.

~Sara Costello

Get Yours:

Stitch’s “Cherokee” low-rise with a slight flare and flap back pockets, $300, available at Barneys and Atrium in New York; Kitson and Ron Herman in L.A. For more info, stitchjeans.com

For more info on Karen Zambos vintage couture: karenzambos.com.

See Joy in Get Rich or Die Tryin’, which hits theaters November 9th.