The bright skinny fad
March 10th, 2008High fashion retailers in the USA are selling brightly coloured, ultra skinny jeans and my Euro sources tell me that this style is all over London, Paris and Germany too. I saw glimpses of this denim movement last season and also when I was recently in Spain. It’s a scream. I owned red, turquoise and fuchsia pairs with ankle zips 25 years ago.
Apparently the idea is to treat this silhouette more like leggings than pants this time around. So you’re supposed to wear these lurid skinnies under tunics and dresses instead of tops. Either way I’m bypassing this trend; but I’ll admit that I’m strangely attracted to the look because it’s a hilarious blast from my ‘80’s past.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this trend appeals to today’s teenyboppers and youngsters because it’s so different to most of the silhouettes they’ve been exposed to for the last two decades. I wonder what’s next. Home perm kits and crimping curlers perhaps?
My prediction: this look is a fad that’s going to disappear after one season.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:39 am
You’re right! A blast from my past, too. I had bright blue ones. I wore it under my huge, long sweater with the shoulder pads. Although mine had a much higher waist than these one do.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am
No thanks. The closest I’ve gotten to skinny pants are dark jeans in straight legs I bought by accident…..
March 10th, 2008 at 8:20 am
I had green Esprit pants just like these!
March 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am
No thanks! Yikes, I love color but not this way…it attracts attention to the wrong places if you are bottom heavy. I will definitely leave this trend for the teens.
But maybe it won’t be as bad as I am imagining it…I will wait and see how people interpret it on the streets, but I am definitely bypassing this one. It is just not me.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:00 am
For most of us, or at least myself - this is a very unbecoming trend that I will stay far, far away from.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:05 am
This type of thing looks really cute on very young girls. I remember the skinnie jeans of the eighties with the high waists and zipper at the ankle. I remember wearing them with a tucked in large T shirt. That’s a very hard thing to wear, specially after you eat a meal!
March 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I really *hope* it’s a fad that disappears quickly - they are so not attractive! Not attractive now, and not attractive when I wore them in grade 8 (lemon yellow and hot pink!).
March 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Those are a little scary…
March 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I think I’ll pass on this one. Superskinny jeans in whatever color make even the thinnest girls look and feel like a sausage in a casing. Looking like a sausage in a BRIGHTLY COLORED casing does not make things any better. And anyway at 30, I have no ambition to be the next Oscar Mayer poster girl.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Ugh! No thanks. They don’t even look good on the models.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Somehow I find these a lot more unflattering than skinny jeans, possibly because the dark denim is more flattering and classy. The last pair aren’t so bad to me for some reason, but the rest are–and I’m probably going to give my age away here–fugly.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I wouldn’t wear them, but agree on the comedy factor–although to get the whole effect you probably need some really BIG hair to go with
March 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Mine were higher in the rise too Marlene.
Looks like the feeling is unanimous! Everyone is bypassing this trend. No one has commented on the “re-newed” way of wearing this item. The pictures do not show this look but it’s interesting. I don’t mind the light blue pair on the far right and can see that style working with a black tunic and black shoes on the right body type.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I think they would look fine with a tunic, but in that case I’d rather just go for leggings. They’re far more comfortable and it seems rather tragic to me to spend $78 on a trend that is obviously passing. I could get 7 or 8 pairs of leggings for that much!
March 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Indeed. Or we could stick to our dark wash denim skinnies and wear those with tunics and dresses.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hee hee! I was a teen in the 1980’s, but I was punk so never wore these
March 11th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Ha Lisa! So you wore these in black and red and black checks perhaps?
March 11th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I saw a 10 year old girl in some teal skinnys last night and they looked cute on her. I think I’ll bypass them though, as I still haven’t gotten myself even a dark pair of skinnys.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
The kids love it, as you suggested. I think this trend will be around longer than one season, at least with the bubble-gum set
August 30th, 2008 at 10:49 am
OMG!! love those colours…i got the red and green skinny jeans thought der hot ayes
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