evilbeefchan

I pretty much just wear fitted and slim pants now. I used to wear baggy pants and jeans all the time, but I was also 50+lbs heavier. Now they just feel uncomfortable and cumbersome, and don't create the most appealing silhouette. I've found there are varying degrees of skinny jeans. Some brands take skinny to mean spandex, while others make them slim-fitted. I've stuck with Levis 511s and 514s, it's just the right amount of fit without the junk crushing.

I'm think about trying the Levis "Shrink to Fit" 501s, anyone have experience with them?

Sensei Crap

My sis is into the 'scene' scene and consequently has guys hanging around her wearing skinny jeans and brightly coloured tops and scarfs. Apparently men and womens clothing is interchangeable, and also customary to do so. I think it says a lot when you start wearing increasingly androgonous clothing, and for what - to fit in? I personally don't get it - I wear baggy jeans and i'm comfortable.

Unless i'm cycling. Then those scene hipsters ain't got nothing.

biznatch

Oh, that pic looks that way, but I should really take a picture of my epic thighs and ass in them 501's. Seriously though, they don't really bunch up, if I am barefoot the back of them might touch the floor. Perfect length for me, since I'm tired of destroying them by walking on them.

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FuglyStick

Well, that ain't right. Not because the clothing is interchangeable, but 'cause women should have more hips than that. I'm 6 foot 210, and most high school girls have more butt than I do.

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Charlatan

I don't do boot cut. Too much flair for my taste. I prefer a button fly pair of 501s or something similar from the Gap. Nothing too tight.

That said, in the 80s I wore my jeans tight. Way too tight and tapered. But that was the 80s. This is now.

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snowy

I've seen way too many bad fashion trends from the 80s recently.

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nomcat

QFT!!

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Charlatan

What is up with that? I suppose it is true that pop will eat itself but really... I have been to and witnessed too many 80s themed parties and been into too many stores that are sporting the "new style" which is just the old style warmed over. Oddly it made me feel like John Spartan in Demolition Man. The general themes were right but the application was all wrong.

I suppose this is how my parent's felt when all that 50s stuff started bubbling back to the surface in the 70s and 80s.

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maribeth01

There's no problem if you're still wearing cargo pants and boot cut jeans. As long as you're comfortable wearing it nothing to worry about. Another thing it is nice to pair your boot cut jeans with a collared shirt. My dad used to wear a boot cut jeans and pair it up with a collared shirt. My mom uses this product so that there's no ring around the collar. Good for collared shirt as well.

Dammitall

Hey, now. You'll find yourself in one of those sooner or later.


We ended up discussing the reemergence of many of these trends during my birthday party last weekend. I said I was not-so-eagerly awaiting the return of the tightly rolled jean cuffs that I grew up trying to perfect so I could look cool like all the popular kids.

And oh, look, they're back too:

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thespian86

I wear what looks good. I have one pair of skinny cuts and they look great. It's all a matter of taste. I like boho sheik on me.

I'll post a picture in portraits sometime but my favorite outfit to wear out is the following:

- Black Wayfairers
- Modern Amusement Dark Blue Cardigan
- Light Blue w/Thin white stripes French Collar Ralph Lauren Button Up
- Blue and Grey skinny club tie (Urban Outfiters)
- Dark blue bootcuts from Lavish and Squalor in Toronto (great Queen West Shop)
- Grey and Plaid all stars
- Black/Grey Fossil square face
- Black fossil belt

Sometimes I'll lose the cardigan and wear my skinnys (and that is because they fit me properly; like will's example).

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FelixP

Skinny jeans are too ostentatious for me. That and they look stupid as fuck. If I wanted to dress like a chick, I'd put on a sports bra and short shorts. Personally, I prefer relatively close fitting shirts (not tight thought), and baggy pants. I like my pants to still be touching my shoes when I sit down. Loose fit all the way. I don't sag, but I do wear my pants at the hips, as opposed to the belly button. Fuck. That. Shit.

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This would make a good signature quote.

aberkok

Here's my take on skinny jeans:

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You can have it you want. Or not. But my point remains valid.

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FuglyStick

On a related note, dudes, don't wear white pants

Um, no. Nothing screams "Eurotrash" like a guy in white pants and pointy loafers.

Unless, of course, that's what you're going for.

Hot chicks in white pants, however, are delicious.

Just be careful when your choosing your drawers. There are perverts about.

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Terrell

I don't wear skinny jeans myself. I like them loose fitting. On a lady, it really depends on the lady in question, on some ladies I like them, on others I don't.

Xerxys

Fugly, drawers or no, I will still degrade in my head ...

FuglyStick

(me too )

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IdeoFunk

Personally my favs are multiple and symetrically ripped from-the-top-down jeans. But thats just me.

MSD

I've seen plenty of guys wear white pants without looking like Eurotrash. I even own a couple of pairs of white linen pants. It's all about overall presentation.

Plan9

Oh... OH... fuckin' prove it.

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Roark

I myself am not a fan of the second skin type jeans I see guys wearing. Granted for the most part it's on young guys with sticks for legs. I'd like to see them on a typical American male with a beer gut LOL Except then i'd have to point and laugh so.... I could see sporting some skinnier cuts but the super tight leggings I just can't appreciate.

What's next the reemergence of tight rolled pants?

Iliftrocks

Nope, he's just happy to see you

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Walt

From what I understand of it (admittedly, not much), fashion is something that is supposed to be a functional expression of your personality and lifestyle. One of those "this, above all; to thy own self be true" kinda things. That being said, I've never understood the whole "guys wearing girls jeans" thing. Is it supposed to be non-conformist? An edgy statement about gender roles? Or is it just is it just another silly trend for the masses? Someone please explain the rationale to me. IMHO, it just looks douchey.

Example:

These guys have followed all of the hipster, cleverly ironic, cut-and-paste fashion rules. They look like they desperately want people to think they're cool.


This guy knows he is.

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noodle

This weekend at the movies there were four teenage boys... maybe 18 or 19... wearing skinny jeans.

Hanging 8 inches below where they were supposed to be. How in the hell do you walk around baggin' your skinny jeans? And they all had a little ass. I kinda wondered if the jeans were just so skinny that they couldn't actually pull them up over the ghetto booty. It was really annoying and looked worse than the whole jeans-seven-waist-sizes-too-big-and-belted-below-the-butt look.

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Savinkov

To hell with the jeans, tight or otherwise -- I covet that doublet. Oh man, that is cool. Want, want, want.

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smithrussell

Guys in skinny jeans = gay looking.

Goldie Wilson

The skinny jeans look is the best fashion trend in at least a decade, no question. Yes, like any other good thing, it can be taken to extremes (see hipsters trying a bit too hard a few posts above) but those guys are outliers found in Williamsburg and Silverlake.

I went to high school during the late-90s...does anyone remember that fashion-wasteland? Baggy pants, TRL/N'Sync inspired nightmares, mall-goth run amuck. I embrace this generation's trends--the kids are alright for the first time in a long time. These trends aren't anything new, anyway. It's all a branch off of what Jagger or Bowie were doing in the 60s and 70s, and I have a feeling we'll be looking back fondly at these styles in a few decades when they're recycled all over again.

canuckguy

I think they look ridiculous. Like the dude is trying way to hard to look like they live in the east village or something yet they live in Iowa. Just screams trying to hard IMO.

Now if you see ARTelevision in the members gallery, now he looks fucking cool.

MSD

Missed this one back in May. Come summer when I bust out the tropical summertime wardrobe, I'll be glad to prove it.

chigusa

Totally not into loose fitting jeans. =] Slim/skinny/pipeleg/whatever you want to call them look great and show that you're not fat. ♥

Lindy

Unless you ARE fat. And there are always plenty of us humans who equate stylish with attractive, regardless of what the mirror says.

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MSD

There's a difference between slim fit and skinny fit. Of 5 pairs of jeans I wear regularly, 4 are slim fit, but not skinny, the others are baggy and I don't tend to wear them unless I need durable pants. Well fitting slim jeans hug your legs, skinny jeans strangle them.

Xerxys

Y'know, I think this would help a lot of people. If I could go back in time and make it such that men could wear skirts and dresses I would. They look comfy!!

Plan9

Wow, I'm going to need years of therapy to get over that.

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