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http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/71062/

You guys, the colored pants are making me nervous. Same with all of the neon stuff that's starting to show up and the girl I saw in stirrup pants a couple of years ago. The colored pants themselves are fine. But they make me nervous because I'm starting to think that the 80s are coming back. I realize that a lot of you probably weren't even born in the 80s, but they were a scary time for fashion. They were an excellent time for music and TV sit-coms and movies, but a very scary time for clothes. I just feel like the colored pants are the top of a slippery slope that ends in a fiery pit of neon spandex, shirts with one sleeve, glasses that come down past your chin, and navy blue mascara.

At least I will be able to take comfort in the fact that my fluffy hair will become very fashionable again.

We always had decade day at my high school during school spirit weeks. Most kids chose eighties. Most kids looked fairly normal. Most kids had 80s-esque clothing in their closets at home.

Yep, it's coming.

I hated skinny jeans and colored pants, but then a few weeks ago I was desperate for some new pants and couldn't find anything besides either skinny jeans or colored pants. I finally gave in and bought a pair of dark red skinny jeans one size too big and they are perfect. They don't look like skinny jeans because they are the wrong size, they fit perfectly, and the color is nice and dark. Apparently serendipity and I are on the same page.

In sum: colored pants can be okay sometimes. That said, a girl in one of my classes sometimes wears pants with crazy leopard print or something. That's a little too 80s, IMO. NerdGirl, so glad to hear your fluffy hair will be fashionable!

I still don't like guys wearing skinny jeans. The color doesn't bug me- I don't particularly like it, but whatever.

I have a list of things I hope will no longer be trendy in 18 months, and coloured pants are on the list.

Zedability wrote:I have a list of things I hope will no longer be trendy in 18 months, and coloured pants are on the list.

Amen. I mean, I don't actually have a list, but I certainly hope colored pants and skinny jeans of all sorts will be gone before long.

I actually kind of like colored pants and skinny jeans...

Emiliana wrote:

Zedability wrote:I have a list of things I hope will no longer be trendy in 18 months, and coloured pants are on the list.

Amen. I mean, I don't actually have a list, but I certainly hope colored pants and skinny jeans of all sorts will be gone before long.

I actually like skinny jeans. I know all the reasons why people dislike them and I hate all the style atrocities committed by skinny-jean-wearers, but the fact remains that I have a great figure for skinny jeans, and so I like them.

I really don't mind the simple colored pants and skinny jeans if we can just leave it at that and be done with it. But I was at The Gap on Saturday and there was a whole display of skinny jeans with flowers and polka dots that looked like they were made out of dead couches. If that is where we are headed, I'm out.

I hope that ankle-length kilts become business casual. What passes for baggy jeans these days chafes me, especially with the whole low waste thing which I have to compensate for by hiking my pants up. Sadly, shorts are forbidden in the lab for safety reasons, which is why the kilts would need to go to my ankles.

Also, I'm out of the loop a bit, is this what is meant? http://0.tqn.com/d/jeans/1/0/k/-/-/-/me ... -jeans.png
I don't see anything wrong with them.

I have a pair of green jeans my wife encouraged me to buy. At $50, they were an expensive whim, but it made her happy to see me wear them and look all hip for a change. I have worn them once more after that, but I've thought about wearing them countless times. It's nice to have the option, even if I know I'll never choose it.

The whole colored jeans trend has really not caught on in the (Midwestern) city where I live. I've heard about how they're such a hot trend everywhere else, and my sisters-in-law almost convinced me to buy a pair over Christmas, but...it's just not a thing here. Everyone wears skinnies, but even the most fashion-forward people are only wearing black, grey, and dark blue denim. I wonder if we're behind the times and it'll eventually catch on here too, or if it's just not going to work here.

Eirene wrote:The whole colored jeans trend has really not caught on in the (Midwestern) city where I live. I've heard about how they're such a hot trend everywhere else, and my sisters-in-law almost convinced me to buy a pair over Christmas, but...it's just not a thing here. Everyone wears skinnies, but even the most fashion-forward people are only wearing black, grey, and dark blue denim. I wonder if we're behind the times and it'll eventually catch on here too, or if it's just not going to work here.

This explains why I was confused by the question, then. I wondered what the asker was talking about...

Talons wrote: Also, I'm out of the loop a bit, is this what is meant? http://0.tqn.com/d/jeans/1/0/k/-/-/-/me ... -jeans.png
I don't see anything wrong with them.

Yeah, I think those are what the questioner was talking about. And I'm fine with those. Some of the colors a bit ugly, but whatever. This is what I'm terrified of: http://www.gapcanada.ca/browse/subDivis ... nk=6085807

It's already at BYU. I didn't know exactly what they were called until now, but I've seen men and women wearing high water skinny jeans. It looks really silly.

squirrel wrote:It's already at BYU. I didn't know exactly what they were called until now, but I've seen men and women wearing high water skinny jeans. It looks really silly.

On the plus side, I can buy regular-length jeans and look "trendy" now.

NerdGirl wrote:This is what I'm terrified of: http://www.gapcanada.ca/browse/subDivis ... nk=6085807

Black people? #sarcasm

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:

NerdGirl wrote:This is what I'm terrified of: http://www.gapcanada.ca/browse/subDivis ... nk=6085807

Black people? #sarcasm

I was thinking it was the stack of folded clothes. That gives me the shivers.

I am scared of anyone who wears pants made out of a dead couch regardless of race. If someone will kill a couch, what's next? You can't tell me this isn't made from a dead couch: http://www.gapcanada.ca/browse/product. ... =351538003 Those are the pants that I'm the most afraid of.

And on a completely unrelated note, but I'm too lazy to go over to the random thread: Why the $(@*$# won't my Tamagotchis go to sleep?!

Dude, NerdGirl, those pants are S^EXY. If I saw a girl wearing them, I would definitely want to sit on her lap.