Fashion styles recycle every few decades. Unfortunately, one skeleton pulled out of style's closet is skinny jeans on men. Although the style may vary from its past counterparts, skinny jeans are here, but hopefully not to stay.
"Those shouldn't be made for boys," commented Cynthia Zeinali, nursing major.
While some fads, like the ‘Hammer Pants,' never resurfaced from bygone decades, this is round number four for the skinny jeans. They had their hay-day in the ‘50s with the greasers, and were even sported by Elvis. The second revival was in the ‘70s and short-lived until the ‘80s where generation X teens made them funky, rad and fresh all at once. Now like a bad penny, they have made their way back into yet another decade.
"Yeah, it's really not a style I can get into. I think they just look painful," said Valley student Omero Ramirez. "How do they sit? Is that why they sag them?"
If the tight, brightly colored shirts over the tight and bright skinny jeans with neon hi-top tennis shoe aren't enough to throw one's brain into a color seizure, the boxer-briefs hanging out of the sagging snug jeans should do the trick. Perhaps the wearers suffer from Skittle envy. Perhaps they are torn between the choices of wearing the jeans, or not, so sagging is an agreeable medium.
"It's a nation-wide epidemic of bad style," commented psychology major Tenisha Young. "It's really not okay for boys' jeans to be tighter than mine."
The brightly colored masses continue to sport the skinny jean with gusto, and stores continue to mass-produce the jeans in every color, fashion, and style possible, yet I can only hope that the skinny jean will soon be a passing fad. The days before men proudly exhibited chicken legs, adorned with ankle strangling over-tight pants, are sorely missed.
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