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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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was there really someone under the subway at times square (42nd) like half and hour ago?
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I like my jeans so you can't count the change in my pocket. Or see the vagina where my penis should be.
hahahahaha!
Bad idea jeans.
+1
Commence absurd judgments of a large group of people based on how they dress.
Do they all wear these when they all blow up all landmark buildings with firecrackers?
Well, accidental terrorist hipsters often wear handkerchiefs around their necks, I find.
The Wall Street Journal... oh, how you have fallen.
Great job, Jen!
I think that the tightness of the jeans make these guys feel all sexy like they are a hot woman or something. The sad truth is these spindly-legged men who are purchasing these pants look awful. Its the worst when you see that skinny leg out of the corner of your eye and you turn your lecherous salivating-wolf-from-the-cartoons face towards them to give them a full appraisal and you're slapped in the face by the realization that you're looking at a guy... Leaves one feeling insulted and in some way assaulted. Traitors to the gender, bastards!
-j
Does this comment satirize how a beefy, thick-necked, super-repressed hetero guy might feel or are you serious? And where do you stand on man-bags? How about man-jewelry?
Yes, I am a beefy super-repressed hetero, what of it? Man bags, eh, I have one to carry my sandwich to work in. Jewelry, I wear a silver bracelet. Look at that, commenting on a comment on comment.
These are probably the same sheep that were wearing oversized jeans in the mid 90s.
Are you kidding me? Wide-leg jeans were da bomb diggity! Comfortable as hell with deep pockets.
Bet you hated the fall-off-the-ass look. So did I. I kept my wide-legs up around my waste.
Have the hipsters noticed yet how old and fat they're getting? I swear I remember when I was in college and these people were in their twenties.
"I've been wearing skinny jeans my whole life."
Thanks, McDouche. I'll be quoting that one in the yearbook.
McDouche -- nice touch.
real men wear lady pants.
The only skinny jeans worth wearing are APC jeans.
They just look right.
I wonder how the crazy skinny jeans guy with the cane on 45th and Lex most mornings feels about this growing trend.
DUDE that guy is hilarious. I can't figure out what his deal is. He kinda looks like Anthony Bourdain.
yo that guy is awesome and totally out of his head. if you've got a couple of free minutes and want to amuse yourself for days, when he stops ranting, go start any old conversation with him. within 4 sentences, he will have commenced into a screaming tirade aimed at you. I asked him if he wanted my extra apple. he was fine at first and said thank you for offering, and then started screaming at me. too funny.
It's not a bad look. I lost a bunch of weight just to fit into them. It's been going on for awhile now though and will probably be completely mainstream in middle america in about 10 years.
I'm not entirely sure why I made the above post. I am having a case of the Mondays.
"will probably be completely mainstream"??
skinny jeans ARE mainstream. hipsters are about as counterculture as britney spears
I'm talking mall of america mainstream. oh wait, they probably have them at gadzooks or whatever they're called.
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.
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!
rock the jncos man, we all did. they were for aspiring skaters.
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.
Can you lose weight in your legs?
I can understand the desire to avoid the top heavy lollipop look.
bwahahahah
that video and everyone involved = atrocious
junk punches for ALL!
bwahahahah
that video and everyone involved = atrocious
junk punches for ALL!
Natural selection: wearing nut strangling jeans = infertility. A win for humanity.
+ bicycling, a double scrotal jammy whammy!
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.
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!
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?
let's dig up levi strauss and ask his dead body what he thinks about it.
You mostly sound like a bunch of excrutiatingly boring and bored squares.
i wear dockers and izod!!!!!
BITCHES
thankfully their sperm count lowers with every wearing.
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.
this guy is a douche canoe!
this guy is a douche canoe!
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.
I def. meant "shouldn't."