why so many of us hate the fashion industry, reason too-high-to-count

[lagilman]

So, there's this entire article in the New York Times about the new trend in menswear being skiny, skinny jeans. Really skinny, so much so that you have to make like a greased acrobat to slide into them.

They claim it's a reaction away from the preponderance of boot-cut styles over the past few years.

Uh-huh.

Fashion Industry Guys? Here's a clue. Design jeans that fit, are comfortable, that give you enough room to walk without chafing but don't slide off your ass or flap around the ankles, that hug the form but don't divulge what you had for lunch, and we will buy them, male and female. Maybe not at the $500-700 price tags you were quoting or these uber-punk style jeans, no, but we'll buy them in quantity, oh yeah.

Oh, and make them available in basic black, and a couple of shades of blue, and maybe a nice weathered gray or brown, and we'll buy one of each. Maybe two. I have no interest in acid-washed, pre-ripped, ultra-faded or pre-stained. I can do all those things myself -- that's what jeans are for!

Comments

[leethomas.livejournal.com]

AMEN! "Fashion" has been scamming the world long enough, playing on people's fears of inadequacy and longing for acceptance.

They're clothes people. They're just clothes.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to discover the farm-supply catalogues. Now there is basic dressing, built around jeans and Carhartts.

[lagilman]

My last jeans were ordered from, of all places, Chadwicks. They have a little more stretch in them than I prefer, but the price and the curt were basic, and they've worn extremely well.

But I still miss my Gap straight-legs. Basic blues and blacks, fit at the waist, curved at the hip and rear, and didn't flare anywhere. My last pairs are in the 'don't wear in public' stages, alas...

[otherdeb.livejournal.com]

And make 'em in sizes that reflect the various shapes real people come in.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I'll stick with my Lands End "relaxed fit", thanks. And, like you, I can "distress" them myself. Once they reach the fashionably-tattered stage, Wife throws them out or makes me wear them for painting jobs.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Love Chadwicks!

[damascene.livejournal.com]

Best I've found are the Lee jeans in the JC Penney catalog and web site. Basic cut, basic colors, a little stretch in the blend; I get the side-elastics 'cause that gives me the waist:hips ratio I need.

Good hunting.

[dochyel.livejournal.com]

No matter what the Fashion Industry does, I'm going to stick with my Wrangler Cowboy Cut Slim Fit jeans. In blue and black, mostly. I like them, they fit me well, they look good on stage.

That's all I need.

[dochyel.livejournal.com]

I usually order my jeans out of the same catalogue I order my boots from, Just Justins. I get a few other western wear catalogues, too, but look at them more for stage stuff than for anything else.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Some of the Western bling is...interesting.

Just today I got a special sale offering: an entire line of leather goods in colors not known in nature. All thrown together. Any old how. On the same piece of leather. Even my Fat White Guys couldn't carry that off (she said, having tacked one up this morning in a bridle with Swarovski crystals in the browband--complete with swan logo--purple saddle pad with gold piping, and purple whip to match).

I didn't know you had an lj. New? Does Alex have one, too? Wonderful to see you here!

[dochyel.livejournal.com]

There's WAY too much cowboy bling for me. I do stop in at a great place in Central PA called Back to Basics every time I'm driving to Pittsburgh. I always get at least one new shirt there. A lot of my stage wear comes from them, these days.

My lj isn't new. It's just that I haven't been keeping up with it all that much, but want to start doing so. Alex doesn't have one. One thing at a time. First, this summer, I need to finally give her a web site. Then, maybe, she'll try an lj (but I doubt it).

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I draw the line at ugly colors. And Barbie pink.

You don't know who I am, do you? ;>

[dochyel.livejournal.com]

I do know, actually. I looked at your profile page and it was easy to figure it out. So there. Hah!

[lagilman]

You don't know who I am, do you? ;>

If the LJ handle, icon, and reference to the white'uns didn't do it, I will mock him for a week. Maybe even a month. :-D


And dare I ask who got be-crystaled?

[lagilman]

careful there, Lee. People will start to whisper that you're, y'know... straight.

[dochyel.livejournal.com]

The LJ icon didn't do it. But that bit about the "Life Among the Lipizzans" was a give-away.

So I avoid being mocked, which is always a Good Thing.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Mock him anyway, just on principle. ;>

Amazing how many GEnie-ites have surfaced here. It's Old Home Week every week.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

:)

[dochyel.livejournal.com]

If she's going to mock me, at least let her wait until my final papers are all finished, ok? Give a guy a break.

Oh...and, in case you're interested, I have a new CD out. Info on how to give it a listen is on my own lj.

[wyldflamingo.livejournal.com]

I vote we make Fashion Industry Guys wear the jeans they design for us. In a size down from what might actually fit them.
Then we surround them with whatever food they prefer most, and make them try and sit down while we hold it just out of reach.

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

Backlash to the whole guys wearing pants big enough for two or three guys a pair trend maybe?

Way to lay the smackdown, suri!