Skinny Jeans Are In For Another Year and I couldn’t be grumpier about it! 
I don’t particularly mind the skinny jean look except for the single fact that I just can’t wear it! Now I am not particularly large but my thigh just won’t allow for it. And if a normal sized woman can’t wear these jeans how on earth is a trend like this going to survive in a country that boasts 62% of its citizens are overweight?
Perhaps this is just another case of Blue States Lose
“Every week a fresh crop of images of ridiculous-looking hipsters acting in a ridiculous fashion is made available on the Internet. Many of us are familiar with the photo galleries at The Cobrasnake (primarily Los Angeles), Last Night’s Party and Misshapes (both in New York). These sites, which aim to make wasted party-going retards look fabulous, are quite possibly the most infuriating thing in the world. But much like a gruesome car wreck or a Paris Hilton home movie, you just can’t turn away. Every Friday, we’ll steal a little from Vice magazine and post our choices for the Top 10 most ridiculous hipsters, complete with links to the photos and derogatory comments. They’ll make you – a young, liberal-leaning urbanite – suddenly hate everything about youth culture, your city and, probably, life. In other words: Blue States Lose.”
And thus while I love fashion this sort of trend makes me- a young, libertarian, urbanite- hate the fashion world. Blue States Lose because America is fat, most people can’t wear this shit, hell I can’t wear this shit, and thus fashion becomes even more the provence of the elite and everyone else stays ugly, boring, and poorly dressed because there are no reasonable trends or options for the rest of America. Sigh! And that is my Blue States Lose moment of the day.
Wait, so the ’80s are back? Does that mean I should anticipate the reintroduction of tapered acid wash denim?
Yes! fear for your life!
Let me see the media wants to “skinny jean” and “super size” society at the same time…”I’ll take some fries with those jeans…
I have a 15 year old daughter and a few years back I took her shopping for jeans, she is not a big girl but is not built for “low rise jeans”…we went to store after store searching for a non low rise ….
If 95% of America was too fat for this trend skinny jeans would just be that much stronger as a fashion. Scarcity breeds desire.
If what was desireable was what was most popular/accessible, than fatness would be a fashion trend. That’s not the way fashion works.
All that fat America has to do to kill this trend is to adopt it. Millions of unsexy, mainstream conservative fat people in skintight jeans would put the hipsterati in baggy sweatpants overnight. Is that what you want?
Danielle-YES that is exactly what I want! Hipsters in sweatpants would be awesome.
As Jay McCarroll would say -blobular popeple!
Then I am buying stock in Walmart right now!
Nothing’s worse then discovering that you’re near a perfect size medium and nothing fits -still-! My other pet peeve… Fashion lines where I’m a ‘large’. According to standard sizing my figure puts me into the mediums. But I’m anything from a small to an extra large depending on the catalogue.
Nor are big arms cared for. If it fits in the arm, it doesn’t fit in the torso. If it’s nicely tailored in the torso the seams burst in the arm. Some people lift weights to avoid pipe cleaner arms, I avoid hefty lifting even though I’m naturally gifted, for fear I never find a fitting shirt again. I’m already reduced to men’s dress shirts for blouses.
My sixteen-year-old daughter (a perfectly-proportioned size 6) is now going for men’s Levis, just to find jeans that fit.
But honestly Julie, if I can do skinny jeans, you can. (The only picture on my blog is me, sitting down, in skinny jeans.) Just make sure the overall silhouette is either a figure-eight or a pencil; I find the figure-eight much easier to achieve.
My fit pet peeve? The sizes keep getting bigger and bigger. One more size-shift and Ann Taylor will be a plus-size store!
One thing that has been is to fudge the sizes that is you will find
size 36 in a mens that is measured out as a size 38..makes you
feel better…
Hmmmm, I don’t think I can do skinney jeans. The trick to skinny is to be skinny. I am a 36-27-36 which means I have some build to my figure. I would need to whittle away the thighst to do it properly. As a size six (whatever that used to mean), 5′3″ 125-130 pound woman skinny just ain’t my thing.
I always have a issue with my length, I’m 6′2″ and need a 33 length, 32 is short and I step over 34’s…with a 36 inseam the standard is 32….but hey my brother is 6′8″ but we will not go there…I feel for you girls..my college job was the GAP and I used to work the dressing room..oh the stories I have ……
So really what your objecting to is the fact that “skinny” is in again, not the skinny jeans per se. I suspect you are not alone in your antipathy towards them. I think the idea behind the pants is to make you feel skinny when you wear them. Or if not, to make you feel fat, and thus the need to go out and buy lots and lots of products to make yourself feel better. But that’s advertising/marketing, and perhaps more your domain?
Skinny jeans are very mainstream here in Melbourne, and yes I’ve seen all sorts of shapes and sizes wearing them.
That’s why I’m looking for some extra wide tailored baggy pants. I don’t want to look like a mall rat! Packs of teenage girls wander the streets in this uniform, it’s such a no brainer if the other 15 friends in your group are all wearing them, and you’re all sporting some ironic ’80’s’ gold belt over a Sass and Bide ripped off draped jersey singlet! Girls get your own identity!
I hate prescribed style, but that’s how all the magazines and stores seem to be selling clothing these days.Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire etc all make list’s of “must haves” and this seasons ‘essentials’. Just makes me wanna do the opposite.
K mart even stock them for 6 year olds! Now that’s a sign a trends coming to an end if ever there was one! They’ll be stocking them in ‘my size plus’ before you know it!
So I’m with you on this Julie, not because of fat arse issues (even though I do have one) but more because were told they are essential. Stick em !
skinny jeans are on the out already. i’m now looking for baggy pants….
May I suggest a trip to Queens? They must have a Wal-Mart there! We can make it a day trip, be scared by the rest of America, eat some hamburgers, you know know do normal things!
Ketchup- It contains natural mellowing agents that make the rest of our country more or less bearable.
Jingle: These are the good times, just you and your country
Cultivating hobbies and saving your money
Practical as ketchup on eggs that are runny
VO: Ketchup. It makes America almost bearable.
From The Ketchup Advisory Board: Ketchup-It makes you normal
you think queens is the rest of america? when’s the last time you went out there?
actually I haven’t been in ages but my aunt runs a restaurant there. But yeah it isn’t the rest of America. Maybe Scranton?
Ohhhh the poignant horror!
This is one of the more palatable trends, but, of course it’s become an eye-sore by now…
Julie, you left a comment on my blog yesterday. I included my email in this reply, please email me, so we can talk further. Thanks.
Actually, high-rise, skinny tapered jeans with 3/4 height cowboy boots are just right. It’s not a Platonic “Idea”, but I’m pretty sure Alcibiades wore them. It’s in a recently found dialogue by Xenophon. He couldn’t stand them, and apparently neither could the Athenians. Something Xenophon and the democrats agreed on. Hm.
Skinny jeans – who dictates this absurd style? It sounds very much like a conspiracy by the Fashion Illuminati!
I enjoy the skinny jeans. Herion chic and deathly-appearing skinny is an art and beautiful to stare at. I am only 118 (height 5′4) pounds, though I wish I were down to their sizes so I could portray such beauty, until then Ill be a size three. Though to those who can actually have will power to abstain from food and get off their asses and excersise; BRAVO, you are abolishing the obesity epeidemic and celebrating it with a beautiful look!
I like skinny jeans. I’m 5′5, 125-130 lbs., 36-27-37, size 4-6, and I’m lazy as hell when it comes to exercise, but I still wear them. I’m not thin, I know that. But who cares? If you feel good wearing ‘em, go ahead. Skinny jeans can make some people look skinnier than they really are. You don’t have to be a 5′9, 115 lbs., 34-24-34, size 2 supermodel. I think curvier women can pull them off too.
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I’m not a thin girl. In fact I am a bit overweight for my age and height. But I find that skinny jeans make my legs look longer paired with some cute flats or heels. They also make your legs look slimmer if you wear heels. I own 3 pairs. And I look just fine. And I’m big. So skinny jeans arnt just for the hollywood thin. Anyone can pull the look off. It all depends on how you wear then. Its either trashy or classy.
Just because skinny jeans are a fad doesn’t mean they are a must. set your own trends
Anyone of normal size who thinks they look good in a pair of skinny jeans is seriously confused! The only ones who can fit into the crappy fit are anorexic’s and even they look disgusting in them. The only reason you saw people wearing them in the 80’s is because variety was lacking in the 80’s. Some things just shouldn’t come back into style!
I think skinny jeans will become just another jean type, flared/bootcut etc, i personally like skinny jeans, they spice up an outfit and despite what people say they work on non-skinny girls as well
It’s just going to solicit an onslaught of “I can’t believe she’s wearing those”… because without doubt, those whose legs aren’t the circumference of a pencil, will indeed be sporting the “skinny jean” look. Why does the fashion market insist on torturing us! Not only can the majority of the population NOT wear them… when the ones who think they can do, it’s damn near blinding! I for one am revolting against the “Skinny Jean” movement!
I absolutely hate skinny jeans!!! I always have, it is ironic because I remember even in the 90’s I hated tapered pants! I am built like a pear and in the last year I gained 70 pounds due to a thyroid disorder. It doesn’t even make a difference! I wouldn’t be caught dead in skinny jeans even when I was skinny!! Don’t people realize that they look retarded!? Who else here looks at pictures from the 90’s and 80’s and groans??? Skinny jeans are the worst thing that I have seen so far this decade. I am with you Holly on revolting!!!
So, if a non skinny girl with fabulously thick thighs and bubble butt wanted a nice pair of straight legged jeans that could be tucked into boots without a struggle….does anyone have any brands they could recommend to accomodate that?
Thanks,
Jessica
I don’t care how out “skinny” jeans are getting. I don’t see the advantage in extra material around my ankles. Im wearing “skinny”(or “narmal” jeansin my opinion) from now on. I have been wearing stupid flares scince second grade, and I cannot look at them any more. Please stop wearing the silly seventies throw backs.
btw it is 3 am so forgive the odd typing, please.
Skinny jeans..hmmmm
Well skinny jeans are for skinny people or at least small framed or very young or unless you are naturally built thin.
But trying to fit into a pair of jeans just for fashion’s sake well that is the mistake in itself.
If the fashion doesn’t either look good or make you feel good then it’s not really for you.
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Skinny Jeans are HOT and us naturally skinny girls look really stupid in the flare bottom jeans. You should be happy we are not be left out anymore. We have been left out since the 80s. Everyone has promoted that a bigger bum and hips is sexy. We look really dumb in those styles, perhaps as silly as bigger girls look in skinny jeans. So dont cry about how it is bad or not fair. Its actually fair that skinny is back and we can find some clothes we look good in for once. Your style of jeans are still everywhere to be found and stop acting like no one but nyc and la models can fit the skinny look. Not true — there are natually skinny and lanky women and teens everywhere that now can feel they are not less than a j-lo size bum.
Skinny jeans, aren’t the only jean around. A truely knowledge woman will wear what makes her body look the best. I should know I have a boutique that sells more than one kind of jean style.
Now there’s also the type that will wear what’s fashionable and not worry about what others think, this too can be attractive. A woman with a bit of attitude. Very sexy!
I thought that I couldn’t wear skinny jeans but I was wrong! I’ve got large thighs and a sizable rear…that puts me somewhere in the 8-10 size depending on the store.
The trick is to find a pair that breaks at the right place below your knee.
If it’s too tapered, it just won’t work, but if it breaks a bit higher – maybe mid to upper calf – then it tends to balance out the shapeliness of my thighs.
Also…It helps to wear longer looser tops to balance the close fit of the jeans.
It was impossible for me to find the right skinny jean during year 1 of the trend, but now that it’s everywhere the manufacturers are starting to catch on to different ways they can make it work for more people.
I’m not saying that anyone could pull it off, but it’s not JUST for the skinny people anymore.
I need some suggestions as to what jeans to buy. I’m only 5′1″ but i have a rather large bum and big thighs. Are skinny jeans for me? I’ve heard that they don’t work on people like me and that they do work. What should I do?
You know, until today I would’ve agreed with you…
I just tried on a pair of wide-ish legged skinny jeans, and I’ll be damned- they actually look really good. Size 32. 34inches long so they bunch up a bit at the ankle… I’m 5′8″ and 150 pounds. Super hourglass figure. Almost Marilyn Monroe measurements exactly.
And, honestly, I am CONSTANTLY beating myself up over my big butt- and am paranoid about looking fat in public- so I can really honestly tell you that these jeans look decent. I am super self concious! But I feel like they actually look MORE slimming than my flares, which kind of accentuate my wide hips by overtly making the effort to “balance” them out with wide ankles. Compared to the slick straight look of these skinny jeans, my flares make me look like… a wine glass or something. Idunno. It’s kind of fun as a very curvy girl to have a sort of straighter, boyish look.
Plus, they’re really slick dark denim, and look really classy with a wool peacoat and some little black flats. I don’t feel like a hipster at all (believe me, I’m not haha)
Idunno… just give em a chance. Maybe you didn’t find the right fit? I tried on 3 styles- two were HORRID (like, can’t come out of the fitting room horrid) but the third… well, I like em.
Ok, personally, I see no arguement here. I’m a big girl. I’m a teen too. I know first hand how hard it is to walk into a store and not see your size, to try tons of things and have nothing fit. I excercise to no avail. I wear skinny jeans and almost every person in school has told me they look amazing and that they love them on me. I’m very proud of how I look and who I am. Everyone can wear anything if they know how to make it fit them right. Jeans, skirts, shirts, belts, shoes. Everything needs to fit YOU not you fit it. Why should we bend our morals just for fashion? It should accomodate you in every way. I hate seeing bigger girls in frumpy clothes when there’s so many wonderful and colorful things out there for big girls too. I think skinny jeans even make you look slimmer, unless you have extremely big hips, in which case you could add a flowy tunic and BAM instant sexyness. I don’t see any use in crying about not fitting into the standards society sets. It’s ridiculous.
ok guys. lets stop complaining about skinny jeans. They are GREAT! I think you should all stop complaining about how you look in them and go out and do something like excersise. I was overweight. I was in a size 14 pants and it sucked. I am 5′6 and now a 120lb. size 2. I actually exercised and went out and did something with my life instead of sit around “enjoying america” and all the junk i used to eat. Skinny jeans are in and fashionable because skinny is in. People are constantly being encouraged to be thin. Also. The majority of teens in america are not incredibly overweight. That statistic is for adults and also it includes men who are much more likely to be overweight than a woman. So guys go out and change your bodies change your lives because fat will never be in. Now on the other hand, you need to be comfertable in your own skin. If you are gonna be overweight, own it, make it you. Dont complain about it, unless you plan to take action to become healthier. So either own it and make it your personal style. or change the way you live.
My, you guys are grumpy. Just put on some sweats,turn on the TV, and relax. I wear nothing but skinny jeans. they are just like regular jeans, without the crazy excess fabric around the ankle. Just as easy to sit in, depending on the rise. If you hate your body, don’t blame the outfit. its like being mad at the hairstylist because your face is ugly.
seriously, get over it.
i LIVE in skinny jeans.
i don’t own any other type of pants,
yes, they’re hard to wear.
but if your too conceited to buy the next size up, that’s your own fault.
skinny jeans are a fashion statement.
something someone can like and anyone can wear.
you just have to know how to work it for your body type.
don’t complain because you hate yourself too much to wear a bigger size.
get over yourself.
no one’s happy about there body.
some of us just don’t blab online about it.
Although they are hard to find…i still think they’re really cute… Im not small…but i dont think you have to say people look retarded…because i look at me in my skinny jeans && i see a masterpiece…lol
They look good with all types of shoes, whereas flare and sometimes bootcut can look a little sloppy with a pair of flats sometimes…
where can you find nice skinny jeans for people of different sizes….&& that are long enough!!
Well, really I don’t think that people can be too fat for skinny jeans as long as the jeans aren’t too tight. (Sounded stupid, but it’s possible!) I’m fat and I think that I look WAY better with skinny jeans than flares. Especially since I love ballet flats so much!
im not the skinnyestt chickk aroundd & i wear skinny jeanss . simplyy because they aree cutee. & i love the wayy i can wear them w. flipflopss flatsss bootss & sneakerss .
& i agreee w. most of youu ; shoppingg hass turned into a nightmareee . & i findd more girls my agee getting the bigger sizess than smaller . becausee havingg a nicee bodyy & fitting into a doublezero just aint workinggg .