I have a confession to make: I only stopped wearing skinny jeans quite recently. There, I said it. I remember getting my first pair about 15 years ago.
I had hair that reached my shoulders and a sweeping fringe that covered about 60 per cent of my face. I had the tendency to type “rawr” after every single Tumblr post, and I remember religiously listening to My Chemical Romance's Danger Days album. What a time to be alive.
Skinny jeans then became part of my daily uniform. Gap hoodie ? Skinny jeans. Check shirt ? Skinny jeans.
Everything else? Skinny jeans. In fact, if you were born in the ‘90s, chances are they played a leading role in your fits, too. But, before we knew it, with their GRWMs, Gen Z-ers killed them in one fell swoop.
The second skin look was no longer a vibe. The dream was dead. Mr Porter “Cast your mind back to circa 2010 and almost everyone owned a pair; often, the tighter the better,” says Nick Drewe, trends expert and founder of online discount platform Wethrift .
“Over recent years, society collectively agreed that men’s skinny jeans were a big no-no in the fashion world, with many sticking to this consensus and staying loyal to an ‘anti-skinny jeans’ agenda.” By Samuel Hine According to market research firm Edited , sales of men's relaxed-fit jeans increased by 15 per cent around this time, but women's wide-legged jeans skyrocketed by a massive 97 per cent. All of a sudden, everyone was looking for roomier alternatives.
And with the r.