We're deep into the baggy era mate

Except they're not baggy, they're just...wide. And short.

Things are getting a little JNCly.

Quick! Kill all the designers before it goes back!

Welp, I'm into neither stockings nor potato bags. Just plain straight preferably black jeans with deep pockets

Meanwhile I am eagerly awaiting the return of low-rise.

So I tried to apply Hegelian dialectic to this. Either style is the thesis and the opposite style is the antithesis. There's something about each style that isn't appealing to each generation and so they move away from it. There's a lack of synthesis so we never move past these two styles and never create a new one. We are locked in the vicious cycle. This suggests something inhuman is interfering with the process.

I wear what I like(I wear batman suite)

One leg baggy, other leg skinny

It's the ciiiiircle of pants

When can we be in the no pants era? 😩
- Anytime you wanna come over.
- Kilts never went out of style.
  
  I've worn a utila kilt several times. Let the balls hang low, let them Swing to and fro.
  I've lost it to a move, though. I need to get another one. They our comfy.
  Never understood why males couldn't wear skirts. This doesn't make sense.
- me and the boys entering our tunic era
- The first Friday of May (you just missed it)

One leg baggy, the other leg skinny
- I love this.
  If nothing else, as a statement
- Thighs baggy, calves skinny.
  
  Vomit on his sweater already
  
  This. I prefer a more slim fit, but I've got some cake to fit. Too many mens jeans are cut for guys with Hank Hill butts.
  
  Jodhpur pants?
  
  Hammer pants?

Skinny pants are a satanic device solely made to torture the inappropriately shaped
- I used to think that until I found drop crotch jogger jeans. Loose up top but skinny through the calves and cuffed to stay out of the mud. If I get extra longs I can wear them up over my bellybutton and the crotch is just normal. I looked for and found them when I found myself fantasizing about living life in my jogger scrub pants (where usually mud is the least worrisome thing that could wind up on my pants hems). Also they make my hips look huge in comparison to my tiny ankles and top so I get to look like a Pixar mom.
  
  The day I wear drop crotch is the day my GF dies laughing

I'm a relaxed-fit man. Occasionally the rest of society aligns with my taste.

One way to tell where we are on the cycle is check to see what people between the ages of 35-40 are wearing.
- What does that tell you, to do the opposite?
  
  Yes and no it depends on if you live in a small town or big city.
- I can't always buy my kind of stuff at cheap (enough) places. A few years back it was hella difficult to find straight fit jeans, and even now it's rare to find one in the right size and colour. Bootcut (?) jeans made a pretty belated comeback in my country back when I was in my mid 20s, and I don't think I can find them anymore. If I could, I would wear a not-too-wildly-bootcut one for summer.

- I remember in 8th grade, my buddy got the first pair of JNCOs in our friend group. He was so excited, he goes "AND JUST LOOK WHAT I CAN FIT IN THE POCKETS!" and proceeded to pull out an entire 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew.
  
  Similar story in my life but a 12-pack of Smirnoff Ice
- Unfortunately JNCO went out of business 7 years ago; shame, really - it could have made for a great moonshot stock bet! 😅
  
  funny how so many brands have tried to break into the denim market with $150+ jeans, yet levi's is still the go-to after 100 years. even more so now that they make the $20 levi's signature brand at walmart-- just as good as the "real" ones and even more comfortable

I don’t know if I was just too old when we switched to the skinny pants trend but I found them terrible on my balls
- The one time my girlfriend bought me a pair of skinny jeans I tried them on and couldn't bend at the knees, she burst out laughing immediately, firmly believe she bought them 100% as a prank
- That’s because they tried to mix them with low cut pants which was also popular in the 2000s. They are much better now.

I'm staying right between both and I'm not moving.
- 3 cheers for figuring out that being un-trendy means you’re in style twice as much as anyone shifting their wardrobe…
  But also 5 stars cause you never gave any fucks either way anyway.

I've been using baggy jeans for around 20 years now, I don't intend to stop. Fuck the fashion police!
- I wish I’d held onto all my JNCOs instead of donating them all 20 years ago ….
  My son also wishes I’d held onto all of em.

I'm totally cool with baggy fit coming back for a while, just please don't bring back the pre-distressed dirty washed jeans that look like you've been rolling around in a barn all day and also shit yourself.

I never thought that the absurd baggy pants I wore back in school would ever come back into style because they were truly awful.
But hey, what do I know - now they're back and so am I ... How do you do, fellow kids!?!
- I'm preparing to bust my kikwears out of storage, but it's not quite time yet.

At least we're out of the 'holes in jeans' timezone.
- I saw a woman with like 40% of her leg showing through holes in her fashion jeans yesteday.
  
  now for only 140% the price!

We need an overlay also of the amount of rips in jeans
- That one spins in the opposite direction

And by era I mean 6 fucking months

Ive been wearing loose fit Dickies and Vans checkerboard slip ons for about 25 years now.
Being cool as fuck has never gone out of style.
- Vans Slip-On Pros are basically the sharks of the shoe world: They hit optimal design a very long time ago, have barely changed since, and continue to remain one of the most effective species out there. They don't seem to make as many color variant runs as they used to though, I used to have the Lizzie Amano editions in lavender / black and they looked awesome, I ran them ragged as cycling shoes.
  
  Damn right.

The skinny jeans era was a nightmare of elasticated crap that died on contact with a washing machine. We’d better not have to go back to seeing everyone’s pants over their low waistline though.
- I don't wanna see no buttcracks peaking at me

Now that I appreciate a Guy's butt in slim jeans they're gone :(
- My butt makes baggy jeans look slim.

Someday we'll return to better times

When's bell bottoms?
- Hopefully never again
- I found one during winter and have been wearing it as much as possible.
  I love the freedom of movement and "airiness".
  
  Cool nuggets

It's always been baggy for me, I like the swishing around my ankles XD
- Yeah i grew up in the 90s. The skinny jean crazy didn't land with me. I wore baggy carpenters until they died, then the widest bootcut I could find.
  Now I am in heaven, my favorite aesthetic is everywhere, baggy jeans, shirt sleeves over long sleeves, hell yes let's skate

I've always rocked regular or baggy. It's a comfort and practicality thing. Having skinny jeans takes away the point of denim being durable and warm, something it needs to be loose for.
- I feel colder in loose jeans. air gets in.
  
  Aye, but in colder temperatures tight denim cools over leaving no air pocket to trap body heat or improve wind resistance. There's no one on this planet that can generate body heat on such a level it can counters the atmosphere, so creating a little atmosphere inside the denim with loose jeans is the next best thing. It's the same concept as single vs double glazed windows.
  If you want tight pants in cold climate, need to use high textured material likecorduroy or fleece, otherwise add a thermal base layer under the denim.

We’re already moving onto skinnier but flared styles. Skinny skinny is next.

So this is what people mean when they say that the pendulum has swung too far

Are the steps in between filled with bootcut jeans and flared pants?
- It gets weird in the gaps; kilts, parachute pants, togas
- At no point will it be at the actual best point: straight cut. They're perfect. They show off ripped leg muscles without ripping or looking painted on.

Clothing and other things trend about every 30 years. And it's driven by nostalgia. As you approach your 40s you'll start seeing things that were popular when you were 10 and it makes you want to buy it, even if it's a dumb nik-nak.
Resist nostalgia purchases, folks.
- I never stopped playing Mortal Kombat 1-3. It’s hard to get someone nostalgic for a time they never left haha.
  I do have the arcade machine now though. My wife spoils me.
  As for my clothes, I’ve smoked, drank, and done way too many drugs to actually look youthful. When old folks tell me that I look younger than I am, I tell them it’s because I’m wearing the same clothes I bought 20 years ago and I look like a college age millennial because of that, and their sense of time is off.
- I just buy what's comfy. And cheap. Most of all, I buy the first pair that fits. Who has time to worry about style, really?

I hate the feel of loose fabric on me. If I wasn't born male, I'd wear leggings.
- I hate the feel of loose fabric on me. If I wasn't born male, I'd wear leggings.
  Just wear leggings with shorts over them, that’s what I do when working out outdoors in the colder months. It’s a perfectly acceptable look.
  
  Yes
- Being born male isn't an impediment. Make a statement, wear yoga leggings everywhere!
  
  I feel like I’d be too…exposed

Joggers broke me out of the cycle, free your mind
- I've been sceptical of joggers at first, but now I cannot imagine wearing or buying anything else. a string instead of a button is such a quality of life improvement on its own.
  
  They're like modern day utility pants! Plus you can get them with fleece lining which is god tier for winter
- The droopy crotch on most joggers is really annoying for me. I like a more loose fit around the thighs but not MC Hammer levels of loose.
  
  My gf says the same thing. She thinks they're comfy but she cant wear them as part of an outfit. I'm sure if someone made joggers without the hang they'd get plenty of customers. I'm surprised nobody has tried yet, its like the only legitimate complaint I hear from people about them lol

I went baggy back in the 00s and I'm NEVER going back. 'Straight cut' is as baggy as I'll wear em. Love those baggy pants on my SO though 😍

We are all dependent on Mr. Mugato’s choices

We are in the "fashion just makes it harder to move", era

I’m looking forward for the baggy jeans trend. I don’t want to see the outline of anyone’s dick.
- Is there some emo enclave of washed up millennials in your area or something?

Finally

LET'S GO!!