Trends

Fashion trends confuse me. Take jeans. When I was a teen rib cords were the thing, really – unless you were a soul boy, cause then you wore soul pants. Whatever you were, flared legs were it. That was the 70s, baby. Then came the 80s and really, you’d rather be dead than be seen in anything else but straight legs. You had to wear 501′s. And really, I couldn’t imagine wearing anything else – just the hint of flare would give me the hives. Now flares are back, and have been for a while. And I hated it, and hated the return of ugly brown rib cords and orange T’s and I resisted it all and kept wearing my 501′s through every little fad. Until one day I looked down and thought – yikes, that looks stupid.

Now where did I go from ‘straight legs gooood’ to ‘oh-mi-god straight legs ugly pants from HELL’? How does that happen? Are drugs involved? Do shops employ aromatherapy? In any case, am now owner of brand new pair of slighly flared jeans.

25. May 2003 von Caroline
Categories: Various | 3 comments

Comments (3)

  1. ijsbrand says May 25, 2003 at 3:18 pm

    When the beautiful people always wear something else than you do, and only scruffy hardrockers seem to hold on to your favourite dress code, you might subconsciously get ready to accept sometimes changed.

    But curious minds want to know: you haven’t suddenly accepted the low rider fashion as well, have you?

    I shouldn’t complain though; I can wear ten year old suits, and still look quite dressed. Boringly dressed, but still.

  2. Caroline says May 25, 2003 at 3:26 pm

    I’m not sure if they’re ‘low rider’. They are cut quite low, I suppose, but I find that’s helpful with regard to the 40+ waistline.

  3. ModSue says May 28, 2003 at 2:06 am

    Hi C. perhaps you’ve noticed the times we’ve met, I wear almost nothing BUT vintage flared jeans these past few years… a return to my youth… but I find the lowrider aspect to be a pain– too much flab hanging over the sides, needing to be covered by large vintage shirts.

    I too remember when the straight legs first came into style. I left L.A. in May 1976 for a trip to Paris when I was 13. Everyone in L.A. wore flares, w/ giant platform shoes. In Paris, everyone was wearing straight leg Levis. It looked so “foreign” to me… but I bought a pair and bravely wore them to school upon my return. I was laughed at by the snobs… but by September, that’s all they were wearing too. I’ll never forget it. So soon thereafter, came punk and new wave, so I stopped caring what those girls thought.

    thanks for bringing that memory back to the forefront…
    -S-