Skinny jeans are canceled, Gen-Z says. But is the skintight trend really dead? (cut, legs)
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The negativity toward the trend of skintight denim isn’t new to the short form video app, as its young users have been encouraging people to get rid of their skinny jeans in favor of baggy jeans since the summer of 2020. More recently, however, older generations have been fighting back.
The hostility seemingly began when one user, who goes by momokhd, instructed viewers to throw out their skinny jeans, to burn them or to cut them up to create something entirely new. “Skinny jeans just aren’t for me but to each their own,” she captioned the video. And while not everybody followed suit, the conversation around skinny jeans being a thing of the past certainly caught on.
What I want to know is this - when will men's suits stop being made to look like last year's Easter suit on a preteen boy? BRING BACK CARY GRANT SUITS!!!!!!!!
At least none of the jeans pictured look like the overpriced rags that I see everyone wearing around here. I didn't like ripped/torn jeans the first time 'round--adding more tears to the point that the jeans are barely held together by the remaining strips of denim doesn't make the style any better.
That being said, I remember jeans that were baggier from the last time around, too.
My daughter and I were rather surprised last year when my grandaughters were buying/wearing these high-waisted, baggy jeans that didn't reach the ankles. All I could think was.. holy crap... that is EVERYTHING we avoided like the plague when I was a teenager!
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It's all part of a plot by the manufacturers to make sure you are having to buy new jeans. With their durability, you could buy a few and keep wearing them for 10+ years without a problem, but that would devastate them economically. Before my time in the late 1800s they were strictly used as work pants, for people in construction and mining. Later in the 1950s they became fashionable very loose, too long and rolled up at the bottom. Then when I was a teen (1960s) it was the light blue stretch Levis. Later that decade and into the 70s the hippy movement made it popular to decorate them with colorful patches and even embroidery, then wide flared bottoms and hip huggers became popular. Then in the 80s the "Daisy Dukes" cutoffs became popular, which still are today to a certain extent, along with the worn/torn look. The worst to me was the 90s when some favored really baggy jeans, falling off, and exposing their underwear or even their crack. Now we have the skinny jeans, grandpa jeans, and even more of the torn jeans. Those that keep up with the latest fashions have to buy new jeans often, but I read recently that the yoga pants trend for women has hurt the jeans industry significantly.
Levi’s skinny jeans, the 311 and 711’s are cut comfy, although they have more than ample room in the rear. A trend that should go away is the high waisted, shorter length grandpa jeans. A recent picture of Tom Cruise’s ex, Katie Holmes, showed her out and about in New York wearing a pair. They looked awful, Katie is a pretty lady, there is no reason for someone like her to wear such unflattering jeans. Those grandpa jeans would awful on anyone.
I like them because they look so good with Manolos or my Golden Goose.
FWIW Cary Grant's suits always looked so good because they were custom made and hand stitched for him. A gorilla would have looked good in those suits. A little trivia, Cary Grant always wore his own clothes in his movies because his stuff was far superior to the wardrobes the studios offered.
Well, I can tell you that for men with a full complement of manly equipment, those skin tight pants are terribly uncomfortable. I had to put with that nonsense back in the 70s and I'm not going to put up with it again. Maybe if you're a modern millennial hipster with etiolated little legs like pipe cleaners, but if you ever actually use your body for any kind of strenuous activity and build some thigh muscles, plus your man bits, there just isn't enough space there, flannel shirt and bushy beard notwithstanding.
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