Those were the days.
Now I couldn't fit one leg through the waist.
Posted on 07/06/2009 6:23:59 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Doug Black has found himself in a tight squeeze more times than he cares to remember. One day, he got caught in the rain without an umbrella and was unable to run. When his colleagues sat in a circle, the 23-year-old English teacher from Portland, Ore., couldn't cross his legs. And when he tried to jaywalk, while in Beijing for work, he couldn't hop the median divider with his friends.
"I had to walk half a mile down the street on my own to use the crosswalk," he says.
His jeans were too tight. But he has no plans to buy a looser style. "Discomfort comes with the territory," he says.
Skinny jeans, with tapered legs and narrow-peg ankles, seemed like a flash in the pan when they appeared in stores a few years ago. They seemed more suited to women. Today, though, sales of men's skinny jeans are going strong, and mass brands Gap and Levi's are getting in on the action.
Explanations abound for why men would want to wear jeans that look so uncomfortable and impractical. Some fashion observers say skinny jeans' tight hold on certain men stems in part from the wearers' desire to show off their gym-sculpted bodies. Then, too, denim brands, retailers and men's fashion magazines have relentlessly promoted skinny jeans. And pop stars like Justin Timberlake and Kanye West, by wearing skinny jeans, have given something resembling permission for style-conscious young men to wear them.
But men are discovering, as women have long known, that the style can be unforgiving. One sometimes must diet and wiggle, tug and stretch to squeeze into a pair of tight jeans.
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Huh? “Skinny jeans”?
Aren't these the same straight leg jeans we wore in the 80’s? The Levis you could barely get you foot through?
Those were the days.
Now I couldn't fit one leg through the waist.
The men wearing them in the video were wearing Gang of Four and Siousxe and the Banshees T-shirts. Was this story really from 1983?
I have Skinny Jeans, but women still aren't coming around.
G...g....g...g....g..a...a...a....y...y.........y!
Those must be awful uncomfortable on the privates. And the coprporals too.
I can too spell. I just can’t type.
I assumed wearing these pants was an attribute of the gay subculture.
Men in women’s pants.
Not only the 80's in the U.S., but also the 70's 60's 50's, and probably earlier ... also in the late Renaissance of Europe (correct me if wrong, FReepers) ... there is nothing new about tight pants on men
Sorry but the Romones wore pretty loose jeans compared to some of the jeans I’ve seen teenagers (boys) where these days.
Probably so, and being a woman that’s why I chose the photo I did, lol. Silly people who have to follow bad fads!
That’s a joke, right? Nobody would be dumb enough to wear pants that tight, would they?
Maybe it’ll screw up heir testicles to the point where they can’t procreate.
Look for the silver lining.
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