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Finally Skinny Jeans Get WSJ Treatment

skinnyjeansz.jpg Did the Wall Street Journal post an Onion News Network video by accident? Nope, they actually went to Williamsburg to "get the skinny on skinny jeans for men" (their words). The video is after the jump, and at 48 seconds in you'll meet the guy who started it all (how exciting!), he says he's been wearing skinny jeans "forever," but he adds that it only became a trend in 2003ish, after it was already a trend in the '60s, or sometime before Uniqulo started carrying them. But he was born in them. He also gives a big "WTF?!" look to the camera later on when discussing the charlatans who wear their skinny jeans with sneakers. Well, with a little help from Darwinism, the skinny jean set won't make it through the century, doctors have repeatedly warned against how they cause tingling thigh syndrome (especially when worn with uncomfortable shoes).

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  • BrooklynBredTom

    What a douche that guy is. Honestly. People have been wearing slim jeans with sneakers since I don't even know... have you seen early skate photos, Your Royal Doucheness? The Dogtown dudes and such.

    But my whole thing about skinny jeans is this: they should be painted on.

    It's called "tailored" fit, where it's slim but not b/c it was a struggle to get on.

    But I agree, it's become too affordable, haha.

  • BrooklynBredTom

    I def. meant "shouldn't."

  • daddy

    this guy is a douche canoe!

  • daddy

    this guy is a douche canoe!

  • snessnyc

    Not sure what's so new here - I was wearing skinny jeans from Fiorucci and Trash & Vaudeville on St. Mark's back in the late 70's. It was punk fashion then. So then it became New Wave fashion. Then it went on a few more fashion cycles before diving below the radar for a while, then re-surfaced as hipster fashion. And before it was punk fashion, the hippies and freaks wore their bell bottoms super-skinny through the butt and thighs. The point is, skinny jeans have been worn by generation of kids - preferably when they're skinny enough to look good in them. In fact, I'm now in my 50's and the only generation that didn't wear skinny jeans in my memory were the kids in the 90's. They missed out on a sexy and fun look.

  • mrouge

    thankfully their sperm count lowers with every wearing.

  • kcin122

    i wear dockers and izod!!!!!

    BITCHES

  • slappy

    You mostly sound like a bunch of excrutiatingly boring and bored squares.

  • firewire

    let's dig up levi strauss and ask his dead body what he thinks about it.

  • Pålægpåtoppenafsmørrebrød

    I wear skinny jeans because baggy jeans are really uncomfortable. excruciatingly uncomfortable. They give me rashes and skin irritation at my upper calves near my crotch.

    Plus who gives a flying fuck what anybody wears. and since when did WSJ start focusing on fashion. Your name is Wall Street Journal, you wear suits!

  • NannyState

    Your crotch is "just above your upper calves"? Are you with that Little People group in town? Do you remember to zip up before tying your shoelaces?

  • w0wzers

    First people I started wearing their sisters jeans were gay emo guys. Now it's hipsters with skinny jeans and keds, or ghetto kids who dont even bother to wear them above their ass. At least hipsters wearthem at the waist. I don't understand how having to hold up your pants when you walk can be a good thing.

  • Clarice City

    Natural selection: wearing nut strangling jeans = infertility. A win for humanity.

  • NannyState

    + bicycling, a double scrotal jammy whammy!

  • iamdmg

    bwahahahah

    that video and everyone involved = atrocious

    junk punches for ALL!

  • iamdmg

    bwahahahah

    that video and everyone involved = atrocious

    junk punches for ALL!

  • Think2wice

    They encourage eating disorders in men. Just ask the boys of "Kings of Leon".

    I prefer seening guys with cute butts in a nice pair of boot-cut jeans, but I miss wearing wide-leg jeans (à la JNCO) most of all. I loved all the roominess and those deep pockets.

  • KiljoyWasHere

    Can you lose weight in your legs?

    I can understand the desire to avoid the top heavy lollipop look.

  • matty

    omg jncos...the ghetto bastard pants of girbaud.

    In fact, I wore my girbaud's real tight but below my butt...with an extra large girbaud long sleeved tee shirt and addidas shell toes.

    Ah, the early 90s!

  • Think2wice

    Never got into the fall-off-the-ass look. In high school I wore over-sized polo shirts with faux-Timberlands, then in college with bowling shirts and a pair of Durango campus boots.

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