Skinny Jeans or Baggy Jeans?

[Fe 26]

And yet you don't know the very basics of one of the best recognized American icons of fashion.

They're fucking work pants. They were invented in 19th century for sailors and later riveted in the US for miners. It wasn't until the 1950s that it became popular to wear them for anything other than work.

Holy fuck, how do you not know this? How could you even form the thought that skinny jeans are the original intent of jeans?

How in the holy burning double hells, did you conceive of that?


Seriously, how did you go from this:



to this:

[Razor Ramon]

Denim has been used outside of blue-collar jobs, too, but when they were used as more of a fashion staple they were tapered to the body.

[Fe 26]

Denim has been used outside of blue-collar jobs, too, but when they were used as more of a fashion staple they were tapered to the body.

But that didn't happen until around the 50s and doesn't translate into "They're how jeans were always intended to be."

They were intended to be straight leg work pants.

And if we use James Dean as an example, for helping to popularize blue jeans as casual wear with "Rebel Without a Cause" we still don't get anything that verifies your claim. The man wore whatever style jeans he wanted. Anything from loose all the way to the waist to tight across the whole leg.

[mollipen]

Thankfully, the flare jeans fad has come and gone.

...I love flare jeans.

[ElCapichan]

Skinny Jeans are pretty damn lame.

[Nash]

Skinny Jeans are the effeminization of men.

[ElCapichan]

Well put sir.

[jyoung]

It's true: guys these days all want to be girls.

[Josh]

Says the "man" with long hair.

[ElCapichan]

It's true: guys these days all want to be girls.

Not exactly a new trend (Read: 80's Glam Rock)