Slim-fit pants
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Slim-fit pants (US) or Trousers (UK) have a snug fit through the legs and end in a small leg opening. Jeans may be cut in this style, and then are often called skinny jeans. Other names for this style include carrot leg pants, cigarette pants, drainpipes, peg leg pants, pencil pants, skinny pants, slimjims, tapered pants, old-school hood jeans or ice-cream cone pants. In some styles, zippers are needed at the bottom of the leg to facilitate pulling them over the feet. Stretch denim, with anywhere from 2% to 4% spandex, may be used to allow jeans to have a super-slim fit.
The style of pants for men originated in the 1950s with popular male stars such as Roy Rogers, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Zorro and Gene Autry,[1] Marilyn Monroe, and Sandra Dee wearing their pants very slim to the ankle. Skinny jeans became most notable with country music stars and with the birth of rock 'n' roll in the ’50s, when Elvis donned slim-fitting jeans and shocked the country with his gyrating dance moves. Skinny jeans and rock 'n' roll were inextricably linked to create the “bad boy” image that remains today. Skinny jeans were also worn by numerous rock bands, including the The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and others.
Drainpipe jeans (as they were then called) were also extremely popular in the punk movement of the late 1970s, worn by many bands and scene leaders such as The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols and were sold by the revolutionary shop Sex, run by Vivienne Westwood. The tight fit trousers were often customised with bondage-style zips or patches of other material, and were often worn tucked into industrial-style boots such as Dr Martens.
Skinny jeans were also very popular in the 1980s, with most heavy metal bands in particular those in the thrash scene such as Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer. This was the trend for those who didn't wear spandex, which was popular with the dominant glam metal scene at the time. They were usually often worn with white high-top sneakers or basket-ball shoes. By the late 80's and early 90's, many hard rock bands such as Poison, Guns N' Roses and Mötley Crüe to Kiss, Bon Jovi and Slaughter, ditched the spandex and wore the form fitted jeans. However with the rise of grunge and hip-hop music in the early nineties and the post thrash movement, skinny jeans quickly went out of favour.
Early 2000s as they became favored by Garage revival bands and musicians, such as The Strokes. After the Indie Subculture started purchasing the now desired trousers,they began to be frequently stocked in U.S. stores in 2006. Kate Moss has been credited with inspiring the trend to women, and Dior designer Hedi Slimane credited for inspiring it for the men, although falsely. Among women, skinny jeans are most often worn tucked into boots or scrunched up over the wearer's footwear.[2] Skinny jeans worn with flats are popular. In the early '00s The Libertines (particularly Carl Barat and Peter Doherty) used skinny jeans as part of their image (itself inspired by The Strokes' revival of drainpipes.) This was later adopted by more mainstream indie-pop / indie-rock and acts such as Test Icicles, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, The Kooks and The Horrors, as well as comedians Russell Brand and Noel Fielding, increasing the popularity of skinny jeans amongst men.Now in the year 2007-2008 skinny jeans have been more popular than ever.
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- ^ "And where would any list of the sartorially savvy be without a mention of Audrey Hepburn, her little black dress and her little slim pants, now interpreted for a new generation by the Gap?" Shattuck, Kathryn. "What's On Tonight." New York Times (Feb. 23, 2007).
- ^ How to do skinny - Telegraph
