Skinny jeans?

Baggy clothes look sh!te so I only buy stuff that's slim fitting so it fits me properly. Boot cut trousers with a wide leg make you look sloppy imo. The really skinny ones that are skin tight look silly imo though but who really cares?

Saw a lad last night in a pair of skinny jeans, also wearing those plimsoll slippers things and no socks. He had a cool haircut too. I wanted to say him "lad, in a few years you'll think back to when you wore this stuff and get very embarrassed". Like I do when I think of when I was 13 - 15 going around in Petro Motion jeans and a Joe Bloggs stripey top. Cringe.
It's a fad, it'll pass, hopefully.

Didactic Ninja wrote: »

Normally people who haven’t the physique to fit in them are the ones casting the most aspersions.

Yeah because we are all nine stone men

Was in my sisters house a few weeks back and my nephew was wearin a pair of these skinny jeans and i commented sayin that they're for girls and he laughed at me. I says where'd ye buy them things? Penneys he said. Prob in the girls section, yeah he replies. Jesus christ i thought.
Then theres a knock at the door and its a few of his mates all dressed the same as him, boy band rejects. I knew one of em and i got into him too about his jeans, suppose u got them in penneys too ay? No he said, theyre me mothers!!!
For cryin out loud lads

There seems to be different fits.
Skinny fit, Super Skinny and Spray on.

I'm 6'3 with quads and calfs only the first gets on.
The second won't get passed the calfs and the third I've only seen recently.
The wife wants me to try them for lolz but I'm afraid I'll have to get cut out of them.

Once in a few years I might get a trip to the U.S.

I always stock up on jeans there. You get good Wrangler range in any old Walmart.

They are a generous fit with full movement in crotch area, also available in odd number waists 31,33,35 etc., and they are a fraction (sic) of the prices charged by Irish shops - circa $12 or so.

These threads come up regularly. Older, tubbier men complaining that fashion has changed in the time while they were getting old.

Don't worry about young fellas. They're made of the exact same stuff as you. The only difference between them and you is that they grew up on a world shaped by the older people.

There's nothing interesting about old people grumbling about young people's fashion. The interesting thing is why the older people haven't figured out they need to start shopping in older people shops like M&S for example.

topper75 wrote: »

Don't know Duderino.

When something changes - it ought to be for the better, right?

If you can explain how skinny jeans are somehow better, I and all the other 'oldies' are paying attention to you... you have the floor.

If you can't, and it is merely some kind of whimsical imposition by some less-than-virile fashionista, then the complaint can't be dismissed just because they are older than the skinny jeans purchasers.

When things of consequences change, the ought to change for the better. Fashion is (notionally) a matter of style and expression. It would be wrong for fashion to stay so similar that the old folks approve it.
You’re saying fashion changes ought to be better than what preceded them? That’s not something I would argue. Do you think fashion changes ought to be for the ‘better’?

I think that when old people resort to calling young people ‘less-than-virile’ or not ‘real men’ then you’re hearing the old boy’s swan song.

Could all the old boys think back to when they were young and skinny and tell me if the old folks back then thought the new fashions were a good thing? Is anyone going to tell me that 60 year old people were sitting around complementing punks on their fashion when it was new?

The old boys probably need to start shopping in old boy shops, cos Top Man ain’t making jeans for you.