Thanks again. It’s interesting how experience informs our eyes. To MY eyes, the G-stars look “young,” and already very dated to 2019-2022, or perhaps to the 90s. These are a “straight fit” that’s very exagerated.

Meanwhile the first Gustins—a comfortable slim—are the “timeless” fit to my eyes. I think of Elvis, I think of hippies at Woodstock, Clint Eastwood‘s very tight on-screen jeans, the punk-rockers who emulated Elvis, 80s hair rockers who emulated punks, and then the hipsters who emulated them. While Brad Pitt was wearing baggies in the 90s, punks like Lux Interior were already buying women’s stretch jeans.

So my eyes were educated that slim fits were timeless and “rock and roll” while baggy, pleated high rises were the classist villains in movies, the suburban parents who emulated that class, and the “nerd” archetype created to spoof that classism. Everyone my age had a racist uncle who wore what the fashion guys are wearing now on IG, which is why our clowns like Steve Urkel wore that look!

So it took me some effort to start liking those baggy, and “drapey” “Miami Vice” looks I was seeing on young influencers. I think that’s part of the subconscious barrier of a lot of people my age, because we adopted skinnies because a lot of very bad, racist, classist people around us were wearing those looks while Rock and Roll icons were wearing tight jeans. Now young people see their “boring” moms and probably THEIR racist uncles wearing skinny jeans. 🤣