Young people change fashion trends so fast nowadays that they leave older people like me in the dust. I bought skinny jeans when they were the fashion trend. Skinny jeans are no longer fashionable among Gen Z people.
They prefer baggy (loose) pants. I stopped wearing skinny jeans a few years ago. They are uncomfortable and I don’t look good in them because I have very thin legs.
I now wear regular, not baggy, jeans. The word “trend” has several meanings, but a fashion trend is the latest style of clothing, shoes, or other things that many people wear. To leave someone in the dust used this way means to leave that person far behind because fashion is changing too quickly for them to keep up.
Skinny jeans are very tight jeans. Gen Z, an American term, is short for Generation Z, which means people born between 1995 and 2012. These young Americans are called Zoomers.
Their latest fashion trend is wearing long socks, often with short pants. They say only old people wear very short socks completely hidden by shoes or sneakers. A Wall Street Journal article said some Zoomers wear socks that reach halfway to the knees or even higher.
I think Zoomers are too young to know long socks were fashionable many years ago. Policemen in Hong Kong during the early colonial days wore short khaki pants and long socks. Japanese schoolgirls wear long socks as part of their uniform.
I have always worn regular socks that reach a little above my ankles. Such socks go well with suits. Long socks .