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How to look like a badly-tied paper bag in one, easy step...
Seriously, we may not be fans of the high-waisted jeans look, but there are ways to do it right. We'd venture to suggest that this effort from Acne jeans is not one of those ways. Are you with us or against us?
We talked about the current trend for ankle length trousers last month and your reactions were mixed, with some of you loving them and some of you expressing the opinion that they just make you look like you've outgrown your pants. We ourselves actually quite like the look, but having just discovered the picture above on the Acne Jeans website, we feel we must qualify that statement with one small, but vitally important point: the jeans/pants in question must be straight cut. Absolutely no exceptions. Because ankle-length flares? Are just wrong. SO wrong. So very, very wrong.
Even being generous and assuming that these jeans are actually supposed to hit below the ankle, and the model who turned up for the shoot just happened to be a giantess, this is still a worrying development in the world of fashion, and one that The Fashion Police take very seriously indeed.
"The flare should lay on the shoe," states the Acne website. Acne? We think it's time to sack the stylist...
You see, folks, this is what happens when you complain about skinny jeans too much - someone has to take things way too far in the opposite direction, and often that "someone" will be Cheap Monday. Their Mega Bottom jeans are certainly an antidote to the skinny leg, and on the plus side, you'll be able to shelter your entire family under just one leg if you all happen to get caught out in the rain. We're pretty sure we'll be sticking to the skinnies, though, if it's all the same to you, Cheap Monday...
Behold, the bastard love-child of skinny jeans and jogging pants! Never should the two have been permitted to breed, but Dorothy Perkins have thrown them together as part of some vile experiment, and this is the outcome.
They call them "shirred skinny jeans". We call them, "denim jogging pants", and while they're far from being the worst fashion transgression we've seen this year, we're sad to say we don't have a lot of love for them. Let jeans be jeans and let jogging pants be jogging pants, we say. Never the twain should meet, because when they do, the result is the cuffed jean, and no good can come of the cuffed jean.
What do you think of these, readers? Would you wear them?
Black jeans or blue jeans, black jeans or blue jeans? It's a dilemma, for sure, but luckily for us, it's a dilemma we no longer have to face, thanks to Cheap Monday, who've discovered this, er, innovative way to allow us to wear both black jeans and blue jeans at the same time. Clever, no?
We're sure this probably seemed like a thigh-slimmingly good idea at the time, but we'd respectfully like to suggest Cheap Monday go back to the drawing board with this one. If these two-for-one denims are just what you've been looking for, though, you can buy yourself a pair here.
Oh Marc, Marc! Why'd you do it, MJ? You'd been doing so well recently: we'd been lovin' your work (well, most of it, anyway...) and then all of a sudden you have to pull these... these denim pantaloons out of the bag. With a little corset detail on the back. Why did you add the little corset detail to the back, MJ? Corset details on jeans make The Fashion Police cry, you know. As do - we can barely bring ourselves to type the words - cuffed ankles. Jersey cuffed ankles. They're like big ol' baby's bloomers, aren't they? £215 baby's bloomers. For adults.
We're disappointed, Marc. We really are. If you're not, though, readers, get your credit cards at the ready and buy these at Yoox.com.
There was a time when ripped jeans were seen on just about every second person. That time was called "the 80s". And, OK, a good part of the 90s, too. Actually, to be fair, ripped jeans have never really disappeared from the fashion radar, but as we policed the web this week, we noticed more of them than usual in stock at our usual retail haunts, which made us wonder: what do you think of them?
The ripped black skinnies in the picture above are £45 from Topshop while the blue boyfriend jeans are $215 and by What Comes Around Goes Around. Personally, if we were going to wear this look, we don't think we'd pay for a pair of pre-ripped jeans, because we think ripped jeans look better when they happen naturally, to a soft, worn old pair of faded Levi's, say, than they do when someone has clearly spent a lot of time creating that "I've had these forever" look. Not to mention the fact that it's just way cheaper to rip your own than to buy someone else's, no?
We also think the look is better on the jeans on the right of the picture than the ones on the left, which have been more shredded than ripped, and look a little (OK, a lot) too contrived for our tastes.
What do you think, though? Do you like ripped jeans, and if so, do you buy them pre-ripped, or do you just rip them yourself?
OK, Fashion Police Cadets, we need to talk about carrot leg jeans. In fact, we need to talk about the so-called "carrot leg" trend in general, because it's everywhere right now, but that's another post for another day. Right now we want to concentrate on the important issue of the carrot leg, as applied to jeans, such as these ones from Miss Selfridge.
We're just going to come right out and say it: we think this is probably a Crime of Fashion. Let's see: the tapered leg (yes, you can call it "carrot" all you like, but that there is a tapered leg if ever we seen one), the slightly baggy hips, the pleated front....
They're Mom Jeans, aren't they? They've just given them a new name and thought we'd be fooled. Is the "carrot" leg fooling you, though, readers? Or are you seeing a Mom Jean, and a Crime of Fashion here, like we are?
Oh, here we go... When Katie Holmes jumps into the fire, the fashion world has to follow, and Dressed and Pressed have managed to uncover these Acne jeans which will help you create that "pegged jean" look at home, should you wish to.
Now, we actually didn't hate this look on Katie, but we qualified that opinion by saying we wouldn't wear it ourselves, and we stand by that. On Ms Holmes we think this looks kinda cute n' casual, but for some reason, on the legs of the Acne model, it just looks like someone tried their best to roll their jeans, but failed. Maybe they should've taken note from Jennifer Aniston, seen rolling her jeans the right way earlier this week?
Still, if you like this look, go for it: the jeans in question are £150, but the Acne website advises buying them a size or two smaller than you'd usually wear so if you have a 26" waist, which is the smallest size available, then you're screwed...
So, Topshop, in their infinite wisdom, have decided it's about time we all sprayed our jeans and, er, hotpants, silver and gold. Just in case we can't be bothered with that, they've helpfully provided these pre-sprayed ones for us, which cost £60 for the jeans and £30 for the hotpants.
What we want to know is this: have Topshop taken leave of their senses? Again.
The gold jeans clearly represent an excellent opportunity to dress up like C3P0. The hotpants, meanwhile... are obviously aimed at people who actually wear hotpants, which makes our opinions redundant here, so we're going to leave it up to you to tell us what you think of them, readers. A good buy, do you think? Or £30 which would end up just hanging in the closet and never seeing the light of day?
This past weekend, your Chief of Police had the misfortune of having to sit through a home video of herself from the 90s. And she was wearing high waisted jeans in it. Trust us when we tell you that's not a sight anyone should ever have to see again, which is why we have redoubled our fight against the high waisted jeans - and why we were horrified to find this pair new in at ShopBop this week.
Has this trend not died, yet? Seriously, these things tortured us all of last winter: are they really back to plague us all again? It would seem so.
Of course, the high waists are a love/hate thing, and we know some of you - maybe even a lot of you - are firmly in favour of them. We're sure those people will make them work, and will even look good in them.
Us? Not if you paid us, thanks very much ...
We have a shocking confession to make. While most of the fashion blogosphere have been rolling their eyes and exclaiming in horror at the sight of Katie Holmes in rolled up jeans that may or may not belong to Tom, we... haven't.
Don't get us wrong, it's not exactly her best look. It's definitely not a look we're going to be emulating any time soon, unless, of course, we find ourselves suddenly and dramatically transported back to the early nineties, and even then... no, probably not.
But is it really so bad?
She looks comfortable. She looks casual. And yes, she also looks like she's wearing her husband's jeans - which she possibly is - but for some reason we just can't find it in ourselves to get worked up about it. Maybe we're getting more tolerant in our old age or something, but let's put it this way: we've seen worse.
We don't think we're going to be placing Katie under Fashion Police arrest for this one. A warning, maybe, but not the full fashion-jail treatment. What do you think, though? Are Katie's pegged jeans really the fashion crime they're being made out to be?
Still wearing jeans made the old fashioned way - with thread? Well now, that's just so last week according to Dutch denim manufacturers Gluejeans, who've started making jeans held together with - yes, you guessed it - glue.
Now, we know what you're thinking, but apparently they've been testing these for two years now and are sure the glue is durable and will hold your jeans together. They also think the contrast of the thick, coloured glue against denim is what will make these a fashion winner, but we think we'd need to see them in the flesh (or "in the denim", rather) to be able to make any kind of judgment on that.
These aren't stocked in stores as yet (although they will be soon), so if you're desperate to get your hands on a pair, you're going to have to visit the company's showroom in Amsterdam - you'll find details on their website.
So, glued-together jeans: the fashion of the future, do you think?
With skinnies now apparently settled in for the long-haul, and high waists on the way out, it's time for denim designers to come up with a new style of jean to plague us all with. We just really, really hope this isn't it. As far as we're concerned, fringes are largely the preserve of frustrated cowgirls and country line dancers. That's not to say they can't look good on the rest of us, too, because we're sure we can, on the right piece. All we're saying is that we don't think these black skinnies are the right piece. Why would you want your legs to look like they had beards, after all? And what kind of occasion demands fringed jeans, we wonder?
What do you think? Is this is the fringed shape of things to come, or will they be going straight to Fashion Police jail?
We bet some of you would have come leaping to the defense of this particular Crime of Fashion, and would have kept on arguing their corner right up to the point where we reveal that these are not cropped jeans worn with a pair of "quirky" leg-warmers, as you were probably thinking, but are, in fact the secret lovechild of jeans, leg warmers and stirrup pants. Yes, we know that doesn't even make sense, but then, neither do these, and what we're trying to tell you here is that the jeans are attached to the leg warmers, which are attached to the stirrups, and that's just all kinds of wrong. In fact, we wouldn't even be surprised to find out that the whole lot is attached to the shoes...
The anonymous Fashion Police cadet who sent this in didn't tell us where these were from, sadly, but if you've seen them on your travels through t'interweb, feel free to drop us a comment. Then we'll know which store to avoid.
Just to prove that we women aren't the only ones susceptible to making the odd crime of fashion, check out these babies. Now, either the guy wearing them is making a really, erm, huge statement about what's in his pants, or he's a fashion criminal. We think we're probably going to go with "fashion criminal", all things considered. What do you reckon?
They appear in the stores every summer, but most of the women we know approach white jeans with caution - either because they're worried about getting them stained, they're worried they'll be less than flattering on, or they're just worried they'll look like Liz Hurley. All are valid concerns, and yet there's still something about white jeans that makes us wonder if we should really be wearing them.
Well, The Fashion Police HQ is home to a small, but very muddy police dog (We use him to sniff out the Crocs...) so white jeans wouldn't last more than a few minutes round these here parts. Despite this, we think they can look fabulous worn with a nautical style stripy t-shirt and some bright sandals. In fact, we reckon they can be surprisingly versatile, for those who can get away with them. What do you think? Do you/would you wear white jeans?
[All jeans in the image above are from River Island]
The return of washed-out denim to the stores (and, indeed, to our homes) isn't exactly a new thing.... bleached jeans have been fighting their way back for some time now, and we're going to guess that more than a few of us already have a pair tucked away somewhere, although they're probably faded by time, rather than by design.
Faded denim is a bit of a 90s look, but of course, so are floral mini dresses, and we've been seeing a lot of them around too, which makes us feel a little like it's the summer of '94, all over again. Do you want to go back to the 90s, though? We're not sure we do. While old jeans that have faded all by themselves can look - and feel - absolutely fantastic, we're not so sold on pre-bleached ones, like the Raven denim jeans on the right of the picture above (the other pair are by GoldSign), mostly because we spend far too much time trying to stop our jeans from fading to want to buy ones that are almost white with bleach.
That said, faded denim can be a great, summery look, and works well with the ubiquitous florals. What do you think of it?
Jeans that squeeze your thigh flesh out through holes in the denim: how have we never realised we needed these?
Continuing with yesterday's theme of "cutting holes in your jeans is both clever AND stylish!", we can only assume that the designer of these Criss Cross Jeans must have studied under The Master himself: Mr Eric Glennie. The boutique selling these says that the criss cross design will "let the air flow through" (At last! Our problems with zero-air-flow jeans are solved!) and "keep you cool on warm summer nights." The Fashion Police say, "Yes, but if you try to wear them on warm summer days, better make sure you have your SPF 50 with you, or those'll be some interesting tan lines you'll end up with there..."
Over the weekend I decided to reorganise my wardrobe a little, and in doing so I realised that I am the proud owner of eight pairs of jeans - not counting the ones I have stored in the attic, "just in case" I decide I ever want to wear them again.
Actually, of these eight pairs, only about three of them are regularly worn, with the others falling into the category of "old, but I can still wear them around the house" or "I don't like this cut any more, but I might like it again someday". Still, I have to admit that, because I work from home, I have become a bit of a lazy dresser, and jeans have become something of a default "uniform", it being so easy just to throw a pair on in the morning and forget about them.
I'm in the process of trying to wean myself away from jeans, slowly, but in the meantime, you'll find a poll after the jump, so do tell: how many pairs do you have?
Do not adjust your screens: this is not an illustrated guide to what happens if your jeans meet the lawnmower - these jeans are actually supposed to look like that. Yes.
They're the creation of designer Eric Glennie, who says he has "a complete line of revolutionary designs for men and women," many of which seem to involve taking scissors to denim, closing your eyes and just seeing what happens. We're still wincing at the third picture in the middle, in which the middle seam of the jean appears to be intact, and winding its way, thong-like, around the crotch (ouch!), but if you think you can stand to see some more, read on...
Arrr, me hearties! Here be wooden legs! Two of 'em! Yo ho ho and a bottle o'rum!
Er, sorry about that. These aren't actual wooden legs, of course, but Cheap Monday have tried to make them look like they are, and you have to give them some credit for sheer imagination at least, no? Think about it: as well as dressing up as a pirate and scaring all your friends, you'll also be able to stand around in the woods, disguised as a tree. Seriously, who wouldn't want to do that?
This photo also demonstrates what we believe is another fashion crime, namely the wearing of skinny jeans with sneakers. Then again, of course, what kind of footwear would you wear when you found yourself with a pair of tree trunks for legs? Your input here would be most welcome...
Before we go any further here, we should probably make it clear that not all of Cheap Monday's jeans are currently spending time in Fashion Police custody. Just... a lot of them. Cheap Monday, you see, are like the little girl with the little curl: when they're good, they're very, very good. But when they're bad, they make jeans in leopard print, gold spray-paint, and weird, lightning bolt cut-outs. And that's saying nothing of the "crime of the century" drop-crotch-high-waist-combo. Actually, the "lightning bolt jeans" require further interrogation, so step with us into the interview room so we can take a closer look at these suspects...
The attractive picture above? Oh, that's just the water in my bath after I washed my black skinny jeans in it last week. Yes, I wash my jeans in the bath. Well, the sinks at Fashion Police HQ are tiny, and the jeans, they are long, so the bath seems to be the best option.
I mean, clearly the washing machine would be the absolute best option. I can't stand having to hand wash denim: it gets so heavy when it's wet, and it really hurts my back having to bend over the bath to wring them out, but it has to be done. And why does it have to be done? Because every time I've tried to wash my black or indigo coloured jeans in the washing machine recently, they've come out grey. Even when I wash them on the lowest possible temperature, on the delicate cycle. Hand washing in cold water, then, seems to be the only way to keep denim looking its best. And that kinda sucks.
The Fashion Police have been monitoring the situation with acid wash jeans for a while now, and it is with heavy hearts that we can confirm to you today that yes: they're back.
These ones are by Lux at Urban Outfitters, and if time travellers from the 80s were to arrive at a branch of UO right now, let's just say they'd feel totally at home.
Now, it's just possible that the 80s themselves ruined acid wash for us. We can't help but remember how our much younger selves would have tried to wear these with neon socks and "crazy" laces, and these dark thoughts make us instantly distrust anything that came out of that decade.
So tell us: is it just our natural aversion to all things 80s that's making us want to file acid wash jeans under "crimes of fashion we'd rather forget"? Can you see any merit in bringing back the acid wash?
Related: 80's fashion | 80's fashion accessories
From the front, just an ordinary,innocuous pair of grey skinny jeans. From the back, a crime of fashion that involves running zips from the ankle to just underneath the butt. Such is the sordid double life of these jeans by Sienna and Savannah Miller's fashion label, Twenty8Twelve. They've just been reduced by almost £100 at ASOS.com - we can't think why - so if you want to be able to unzip your jeans all the way up to your butt, go for your life. (And then run for your life because The Fashion Police will be after you...)
Who said skinny jeans were dead? Well, um, quite a few people, actually: the demise of the drainpipe has been predicted for some time now on Planet Fashion, but most of the UK high street seems to have missed the memo on that one, because there are still plenty of pairs of skinny jeans to be found, and there are still plenty of people buying them.
As if to prove their popularity, Topshop have just stocked up on their ever-popular Baxter style, which were first issued a couple of years ago, but haven't been seen now for months (although old pairs still sell on eBay for close to the original price). These are super-skinny skinnies, which makes them great for layering, and Topshop have re-issued them in black, navy, bleached denim and even white.
We're heaving a sigh of relief here at Fashion Police towers, because we don't think the skinny jean is going anywhere just yet: sure, the wide-leg styles are currently taking over, but skinnies are sticking it out, and are becoming just one more style of jeans, rather than "the" style of jeans, as they were a couple of years back.
What do you think? Are you still wearing skiny jeans?
Cheap Monday never fail to amaze us with the sheer... creativity....they put into their jeans. They're responsible for some of the biggest fashion crimes on these pages, and yet, undaunted, they carry on churning out the kind of denim that leaves us scratching our heads in horror and wondering "who the hell dresses like this?" (In fairness to Cheap Monday, they also make some fantastic regular jeans, too. You know, ones that don't have waists up to the nipples, crotches down to the knees or strange bits that appear to be designed to lash your legs together).
Take these Accordion Pants, for instance. The straps tying the legs together clearly serve no aesthetic purpose, so we're going to have to assume that they serve a practical one. Which leaves us wondering: what could it be? Under what bizarre set of circumstances would you require clothing that lashed your legs together? To help prevent Lindsay and Paris flashing their crotches at every opportunity, perhaps? To put on your other half, to stop them running away? To...nope, we're all out of ideas with this one.
Why would Cheap Monday want us to tie our legs together, folks? Answers in the comments box...
Dear Fashion Police,
I was given some money for Christmas and I want to use it to buy some new jeans. My friend suggested skinny jeans, but I've always assumed they were only for skinny people, which I'm definitely not! Can they suit anyone? (I'm a classic pear shape, with short legs, if it helps.) ~ Amanda
Skinny jeans are actually much more versatile than people tend to think, and can be worn by lots of different shapes and sizes - not just skinny people! In answer to your question, though: no, they don't suit everyone. Like any item of clothing, they'll be less flattering on some shapes than they will on others (although this has nothing to do with weight), and the only way to find out is to try them on.
If you do decide you want to wear them, my suggestion would be to wear them with long line tops or tunics, wear leg-lengthening heels rather than flats if you're self-conscious about your legs, and finally: if you're at all unsure, go for a straight legged style instead - they give a similarly "skinny" silhouette, but are a little more forgiving on the leg!
What does everyone else think? Do skinny jeans suit everyone?
Brightly coloured skinny jeans were everywhere last summer, with red being the predominant colour, and now it looks like the trend is being reprised for 2008, with flared jeans being the next style of denim to undergo a colour makeover. These ones are Ditto's Classic Flare Jeans, which are £175 at ASOS, but what do you think of them?
Personally, I loved the bright-red-skinnies look, and I'm still liking the bright colours as applied to flares, although I like the look on the right, with the pussy bow blouse, better than the one on the left - that denim waistcoat is just a little bit too Status Quo for me. One thing I'm sure of, though, is that I love the big hat! Your thoughts?
Call me fussy, but if I was going to consider wearing a pair of pre-stained jeans, that's not where I'd choose to have the stain. You can just imagine the questions now, can't you? "Had a little accident, dear?" Um, no thanks, Cheap Monday, I'd rather not wear pants that call my level of bladder control into question if it's all the same to you...
Where I come, you can't get away with wearing over-the-knee boots unless you really are a hooker with a heart of gold. Mind you, saying that, where I come from sportswear is considered appropriate attire for everything from your child's christening to his first court appearance, so that's not really saying much. Still, as we know all too well, where Kate Moss leads, the Fashion Victims are sure to follow, so maybe it's just a matter of time before this look catches on.
Lately Kate's been seen on a few occasions wearing super-tight skinny jeans and equally tight over-the-knee boots. Now, personally I reckon you'd need to have legs like... well, like Kate Moss, basically... to be able to get away with this look, but I'm wondering what everyone thinks of it? With the white jeans I think Kate looks like she's off to dressage (who knows, maybe she's channeling Tatum O'Neal in International Velvet? God, I loved that film), but there's something quite sharp about the look that I like. Loving the ubiquitous tuxedo jacket, too. In the first picture, she's working another current trend - the checked shirt - for a more casual look.
[via Denimology]
Enough about Kate Moss, though: what I want to know is would you wear this look?
Cheap Monday have been troubling us for some time now. From mom jeans to crazy, high waisted creations, they can be Fashion Criminals par excellence when they really put their minds to it - so much so that we're soon going to be forced to create a Fashion Police Special Force just for them if they don't pull their crotch socks up. But just say you had to wear a pair of Cheap Monday's less aesthetically pleasing creations - or die. And, just to add to your dilemma, just say the only two pairs of Cheap Monday jeans available to you were the pairs shown above. Which would you choose?
I have to say, the jeans on the left of this picture make me wriggle with discomfort every time I look at them, but then, I'm not so keen on the "I spilled two different colours of paint on my white skinny jeans, but I'm wearing them anyway" look, either. You could hide the Crotch From Hell under a longline sweater, but you'd never be able to hide those Jester Legs... but then again, at least you'd be able to sit down in them.
No, it's just too hard to decide, so I'm turning it over to you, Fashion Police readers. Which pair would you wear, if you had to wear one... or die?
Jeremy loves these Ksubi skinny overalls, apparently. From this, we can only deduce that "Jeremy's" work frequently takes him back to Tudor England, where he acts as court jester to Henry VIII or something, because these do have an almost "comedy" look to them, don't they? As in, you'd like at them and think, "Oh my good God, you must be joking!"
Of course, Tudor England would be mighty confused by the telephone print on these (for yes, those are old fashion phones printed all over these jeans) but then, we're pretty confused by them too. Have you always dreamed of walking around with phones on your legs, belly and even on your butt? Well opportunity knocks! It costs £189 to look like this. Remember, though, kids, style is free!*
*Well, almost.
I'm guessing Cabin Creek probably decided to call these "leggings" as part of some misguided attempt to appeal to "the young ones", because these aren't "leggings" at all, are they? No, they're Mom Jeans, plain and simple - and what a pair of Mom Jeans they are!
Now, I hesitated to include these amongst our Crimes of Fashion, because they're clearly destined for the wardrobes of old people, but then I thought: why should old people be let off the hook? We all know they can dress perfectly stylishly if they want to, and while I'd be very surprised to see a pair of elastic-waist jeans on a person under the age of 70, well, I'd be surprised to see them on any of the over-70s I know too. There is no excuse, people! Rise up against the Mom Jeans -ugly at every age!
Given that they're such a popular denim brand, it's almost a relief to know that sometimes even the likes of Cheap Monday can get it horribly, horribly wrong.
Actually no, wait - it's not a relief at all, is it? No, it's like some horrible nightmare, in which everyone's walking around in Mom Jeans, with high waists, low crotch (WHY?!) and that super-stylish tapered leg. And don't forget the white sneakers - gotta have those white sneakers, which, we trust, are paired with white socks, too.
Of course, if you want to draw attention to your abdominal area in the same way that Oli dress we featured last week draws attention to your boobs, I guess you're onto a winner.
[via Fashion Binge]
Now, I'll be honest: I found this picture posted on an ugly jeans forum thread last night (and almost choked on my coffee when I did) so I have no idea who these guys are or why the hell they look like some giant came along and scrunched their legs down from above, but all I want to say is: dudes? A good fit will never go out of fashion. That is all.
Now, we know y'all are down with your wide leg pants, and we're cool with that, we really are. But there has to be limits to any fashion trend, and with these Elephant Bells Jeans, I think Judi Rosen has well and truly reached that limit. Pairing hems that are almost as wide as they're long (wand which appear to have been ironed width-wise, to create the illusion of even more width) the type of high waist that I still think flatters no one (and I don't care how many comments you leave telling me I'm wrong!), they also have that weird "floating in mid air" look that happens when your jeans are wide and don't quite reach the floor. See, you could get away with that length if you were wearing skinnnies - BRING BACK THE SKINNIES, I say! Bring them back!
If you disagree, by all means head over to Shop Bop , where you can buy these for $226. But don't say we didn't warm you...
A few weeks ago, I threw a jacket on to pop round to visit family. It was only when I arrived that I realised the horrible truth: the jacket was a denim one... and I was wearing black skinny jeans with it. Yes, I had committed the ultimate fashion crime - double denim. And even although the jeans were black, and could easily have passed for trousers, I couldn't get that jacket off quick enough. I felt like I was auditioning for Status Quo and, needless to say, I kept the jacket in my bag for the car ride home.
I had never worn double denim since I was a child in the eighties (and in those days it was acid-wash denim, just to make matters worse), and I swear to you all now that, as God is my witness, I will never do it again.
What about you, though? Would you ever wear double denim? Do you think it's really all that bad?
I've tried to ignore them, but they're just not going away, and when a mainstream store like Dorothy Perkins starts stocking them, you know the situation's getting pretty serious...
By "They", I am, of course referring to wet look/metallic skinny jeans. They were a big look on the catwalks not so long ago, but are they wearing them in your home town? Are you wearing them yourself, even? I know I'm not, and I have absolutely no intention of ever wearing them, because while I can see that the black ones just might work under a chiffon dress, or longline sweater, I'm afraid I just can't think of a single situation in my life where a pair of gold skinny jeans would start to kook like suitable attire to me. Can you?
Earlier this week we brought you news of the most unflattering pants in the world, today it's the turn of what has to be the most unflattering jeans. This image was sent in by Fashion Police reader Jannet (thanks, Jannet!), and as soon as I opened it I started squirming in horror at the very sight of these. Now, I don't care what kind of fashion statement they're trying to make - all I can think about is how totally uncomfortable they look, with the the crotch hanging way the hell down like that. They remind me of tights that don't fit too well, and which start to creep down as you walk, until you're waddling along like Daffy Duck. Also: they look like all kinds of crap. Spotted at MyCatwalk.com.
I love my skinny jeans, and hope they never go out of style completely, but my answer to the question in the title of this post would have to be "oh hell, yes!" Skinny jeans can reach a point where they're just too damn skinny for my liking, and when they look like they've literally been sprayed on? That point has been reached.
Denimology has just printed this picture, which is of jeans from Mary-Kate and Ashely Olsen's The Row. My first impression was that you'd need legs like... well, like MK and Ashley, basically... to get away with these, but then again, lots of people these days wear skinny jeans under dresses or tunics, in much the same way as you'd wear leggings or thick tights, so perhaps these could come in useful if that's the way you want to wear 'em. Opinions?
We've already seen some rather frightening platform soled shoes today, so I thought it was only fair to feature a pair of massive flares, too, in keeping with the 70s vibe... I found the perfect pair this morning, while flicking through the latest copy of the Next Directory. These are their 1970s cut kickflare jeans, selling for a mere £22 in three different fabrics (cord, denim and cotton) and a total of 8 different colours.
Being a shortass, I've long since learned that that amount of fabric flapping around my ankles just isn't for me, although I do like a slightly narrower flare on a jean. What do you think?
OK, this is getting scary now. It was bad enough when it was just stirrup tights we had to contend with, but when a respected denim designer like 7 for all Mankind start putting stirrups on their jeans, you know we're in trouble. Now, I can't conceive of a single reason why you'd need stirrups on the bottoms of your jeans. Sure, you could argue that it makes them easier to tuck into your boots, but I'd answer that my skinnies go into my boots just fine, thanks very much - no stirrups required. And this model is wearing them with shoes. Shoes, I tells ya. The stirrup is very much on show, and I have just one question: why?
(Get them at Scoop NYC if you absolutely must. )
Dear Fashion Police,
I just bought a pair of skinny jeans, and am wondering what to wear with them. Can I wear trainers with them, and if so, what style would you recommend?
Thanks!
Allison, Wales
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