Talk:Slim-fit pants

This article(the old one) was really excellent. Im sure it broke all sorts of protocol, but it really gave an excellent and concise explanation of what this is besides just a certain cut of pants. Don't you all think an article should tell something more then what one knows by reading the title? Sales strategies for global top 100 companies have been made over the silhouette of these pants versus the older more bulky jeans. I don't know enough about or i would fix the article myself. Guess I won't know more now. Are we supposed to read Wiki articles quickly now before someone fixes them? Im very disappointed. Please leave a little information in wiki before people simply stop using it.

And please, put in one of the other pictures. That picture isn't even of skiny cut jeans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.228.218 (talk) 05:16, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The jeans in the picture on this page definately aren't what I consider "skinny." They don't have a taper at all. Can we change it?

Yes, those darlings aint skinny at all.

Punkers

That sounds fucking retarded. That's a term 60 year old women use to describe punks. Changing to "punks". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.21.12 (talk) 10:10, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

NPOV

This article is tagged because its neutrality is disputed. I can't tell what exactly is being disputed, though. Anyone want to clue me in or can we take the tag off? AliaGemma 03:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Someone put the term queers all throughout this article, saying queer stars, pants for queers, and queer bands. I removed most of these references.

Come on....

This article seems like it was written by a moronic 15 year old "scene kid." First of all, skinny jeans are simply straight leg pants. I used to wear the "classic fit" jeans from The Limited Too when I was a little kid. They were skinny jeans. Skinny jeans are pretty much two parallel lines. Now, tapered jeans, also known as cigarette pants, drainpipes, and whatnot, actually hug the leg all the way down to the ankle. This creates a "V" shape to the leg. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spuddy 17 (talk • contribs) 02:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

I believe you removed too much content in your edits. I don't necessarily agree with some of the content, but to have an article about a style, you have to describe the style in some way. Simply saying the style exists is not acceptable and could lead to the article getting tagged further than it was. --Mattarata 03:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. I can agree that the style should be described. Someone think of something else to add to the article that is accurate. But just because an article needs a description doesn't mean that any ole description, accurate or not, should be applied to it. Spuddy 17 09:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Well i took out the emo reference, but i put back the general description, it is not horrible, rather it needs cleanup. If you disagree with it, please make an attempt to edit, rather than simply removing the content. --Mattarata 14:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. The jeans being marketed nowadays as "skinny jeans" are definitely not just straight leg jeans. Skinny jeans do hug the leg all the way down. Some confusion might be do to the picture shown on the article page. I do not believe that it is a good representation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AliaGemma (talk • contribs) 06:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

I think the neutrality problems with this article have been resolved, so I am removing the tag. Calliopejen 01:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Pants

In Britain, the term "Pants" commonly refers to undergarments, and I have never heard it being used to refer to trousers, in the UK. Shouldn't the article's name use a more widely accepted term, such as "Jeans"? Daisy-berkowitz 15:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the title should be changed to "jeans," because the style is about more than just jeans. I don't know about the trousers vs. pants debate... Trousers is understood but infrequently used in the U.S (and sounds stilted to my ears). A google search has 64 million pants results and 12 million trousers results. Calliopejen1 19:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Link problems

This corroborates a couple of requested cites, but currently a URL added earlier is hitting the spamfilter. Will (hopefully) come back to this later.... Nick Cooper 22:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Men's Skinny Jeans

I read the article looking for information about men's skinny or slim-fit jeans, and I was surprised to not find them mentioned as a current fashion. These have become a mainstream style for men now, for example Levi 511 jeans which are readily available at many retailers and online sites. Another example is the men's jean selection at urbanoutfitters.com which includes skinny as one the fits. I don't consider myself qualified to update the article to include men's skinny jeans, but I think it would be an appropriate addition in order to make the article more complete. Dougaa 06:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Reply to 'Men's Skinny Jeans' by Dougaa
by matthk a.k.a BFB "Will it to be and you have of it" (talk)
Good point Dougaa, but I'm not sure if Wikipedia is the place to note that this is a 'current' trend.
Especially since it's only fairly recent, and references the embarrassing part of the late '80s where
no-one looked good, and, after everyone's testicles start to ache, I'm sure it'll be a short-lived
trend at that. :-)

I lived through the drain-pipe era of the late '70s and the stretch-jeans era of the '80s and I can
tell you that:
(a) No-one except The Ramones, super-models and under-fed punk-rockers ever looked good in them
- even then. And...
(b) Many guys really DID damage their special bits and some even became infertile due to tight jeans.

Side note:
Talking about 'the look' I find it very funny that solid, stocky, muscle-bound and chubby guys are
wearing skinny jeans at the moment. The PRIMARY, visual thing that they do to the average body is
that they make your bum look HUGE and your ankles look tiny.

Neither of these things makes a guy attractive. You have to be BONE THIN to get away with them.
I kind of suspect that the skinny-jeans revival is actually a plot by neo-cons to stop kids having sex.
If you can't get them off, and if most guys look like fat-girls in them, then the result is: less sex! ;-).

So if you've got a real bum and don't have twig-thin long legs, and you want girls to look at you in
a "nice" way, them get some cool bootcut flares. They'll give you length AND shape.
And no, before you ask, I'm not someone's fuddy-duddy dad, I'm a designer. :-)

PS: If they're 'mainstream' now, then they're certainly no longer 'fashionable'.
It's like the wonky 'Sharon Osbourne' haircut on guys. Once the bank-tellers have it, then it's over. :-)
cheers, matt BFB "Will it to be and you have of it" (talk)

Terminology has our panties in a knot. (And the Elvis photo is wrong too)

Quick one kids. (or a quick three actually)

(1) STAY ON TARGET!
Carrot-Leg, Tapered, Ice-Cream Cone, Peg-Leg etc. have been removed as they are not, and never have
been, "slim-fit pants".

See this link for an example of Peg-Leg and you'll know how MUCH they don't fit (ah, a pun!) here.
Fashion Trends - Peg Leg trousers

(2) PANTS ARE SO PANTS?
As for the terminology frustrations, i.e. In England 'pants' = 'underpants'.
Well, tough. The British use of 'pants' as reference to 'underpants' is a 20th century British aberration.
They've changed, the rest of the world hasn't. It's not just an American thing (although we all love to
blame our American cousins for ruining good English words!) Everyone in the English speaking world
outside of Great Britain says pants/trousers/jeans/slacks etc. for the the outer-garment and under-pants
for the UNDER-garment.

The word pants (related to pantaloons etc) was ALWAYS the British term for the outer-garment, and
it is the British that coined UNDER-pants for the garment worn, "under" ones pants.

(3) ELVIS AINT GOT NO DRAIN-PIPES!
We need to find another photo of Elvis, as in this shot he's NOT wearing 1950's Drain-Pipe jeans,
he's wearing Straight-Leg Levis. The Drain-Pipe jeans in the '50s hugged the thigh. These don't.

Right, that's me.
I'm off for a proper Melbourne coffee
_{(i.e. not the watery muck I drank while living in the UK or holidaying in the US).}
Hey let's meet over at the coffee thread and duke it out there! ;-)
Over and out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthk (talk • contribs) 04:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC)