Just a few short years ago, I showed my teenage daughter a pair of skinny jeans I had worn in the 80’s. She swore she would never wear anything like that, and that they would never be in fashion again. How wrong my young fashion-ista was! Skinny Jeans are very in! I’ve recently had the pleasure of travelling across Canada, and had an opportunity to see what was in style up north. Canada and US Fashion is pretty much the same..including skinny Jeans!

About Skinny Jeans… from wikipedia

Skinny jeans have a snug fit through the legs and end in a small leg opening. 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. Skinny jeans are worn by both males and females, and since 2005 has become increasingly popular with the emo and scene styles.

In the early 2000s, skinny jeans became favored by garage rock revival bands and musicians, such as The Strokes. Model Kate Moss has been credited with reintroducing the jeans to women. Among women, skinny jeans are most often worn tucked into boots or scrunched up over the wearer’s footwear. Skinny jeans are also often paired with ballerina shoes, another trend that supermodel Kate Moss has been credited with. The Libertines(particularly Carl Barat and Pete Doherty) used skinny jeans as part of their image. This was later adopted by more mainstream indie pop and indie rock 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. Some skateboarders prefer to wear the jeans because of their ability to stretch, thus making it easier to move around whilst skating. Skinny jeans are also now very prominent in the Bmx scene rendering greater maneuverability and less instances in which the pants are caught in the bikes moving parts. They have grown in the latter half of the 2000’s to become associated with a Grebo trend.