how's life wrote this on thread why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk? on board I Love Everything on Jul 14, 2013When I took my backpacking trip to Europe in 1997, I just brought two pairs of JNCOs, which I thought would be ok, because "hey, it's Europe! Ravers, right?" I got sonned so many times over those pants, including the time I rolled up to my first coffee shop in Amsterdam and the bartenders just fell over themselves laughing. "Your DADDY bought those trousers! Your DADDY bought those trousers!" I was pretty indignant that, no, I swear I had bought those trousers myself with the money I saved up from my job at Sam Goody.
how's life wrote this on thread why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk? on board I Love Everything on Jul 14, 2013
When I took my backpacking trip to Europe in 1997, I just brought two pairs of JNCOs, which I thought would be ok, because "hey, it's Europe! Ravers, right?" I got sonned so many times over those pants, including the time I rolled up to my first coffee shop in Amsterdam and the bartenders just fell over themselves laughing. "Your DADDY bought those trousers! Your DADDY bought those trousers!" I was pretty indignant that, no, I swear I had bought those trousers myself with the money I saved up from my job at Sam Goody.
Also had drunken soccer fans on a train through northern England sing this at me:
http://youtu.be/XJOLwy7un3U?t=2m22s
― how's life, Friday, 20 February 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
i'm a just a few years older than enbb but it's enough to be a generational divide when it comes to pants like this
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I missed the boat for the most part--only even saw these one time in my life, which unfortunately was on a younger dude I had gone out with a couple of times. I had already decided to pull the plug on that, but seeing him in those pants--which I had never witnessed nor even heard of before--probably sealed the deal.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 20 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
massive trousers in the UK - people wore them circa 97/98 I think but no one knew them as JNCOs.
― I, (dog latin), Friday, 20 February 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
i had big pants but pre jncos i was a big pants og
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
I really liked the way they looked on women - they were kinda like antimatter daisy dukes or babydoll dress. "Does she have great legs?" Who even knows? It's a mystery. They were comfortable enough that you could just sleep in them if you were crashing on someone's floor or couch or whatever. They made big swooshing noises when you walked or played hackysack. They occasionally got caught in escalators.
― how's life, Friday, 20 February 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
i thought i was fighting the skinny orthodoxy but damn thats real commitment
― no (Lamp), Friday, 20 February 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
tbf i too wore oversized pants but they were not name brand
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i was never into the big pants w no break jincos style tbf
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
big pants OG! lol
Quincie - idk what I switched to really I think I just started wearing normal/old ripped jeans and/or skirts? The whole big pants skater look was really big on long island and with the kids I hung out with and I just kind of grew out of it. Following on from what OL said I think that at least for a while there I liked the fact that that wearing really baggy pants felt like hiding. I was very much a tomboy at that point and I think that baggy stuff just felt safer. If I did wear skirts I always had to like toughen them up with shitkickers or some ugly polyester. Also LL otm - I think I only owned one pair of actual JNCOs but it's easier just saying that then having to describe.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I wore baggy Levis but pretty much because I am so tall that I had to do dude Levis which aren't cut for hips (not that I had much of those at the time), but to accommodate hips waist pretty much had to cross my hipbones aka no where even close to my actual waist.
How I envied the girls in their Guess jeans with ankle zippers.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, I think my favorite big pants were actually kikwear.
― how's life, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
wonder when those zipper ankles will come back and if they do, will do so with 35" inseam
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
...which is also an extant company. O_O Don't call it a comeback, I guess.
http://www.kikwear.com/
― how's life, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
jnco revival is so-not-gonna-happen imo
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Obvs I'd never wear the kind of shit I did in HS again but I never hopped on the skinny jean bandwagon and I still think wide leg trousers with a slim fitting shirt is one of the chicest look for women.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, February 20, 2015 11:06 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh they're back! i've got some and they are my favorite jeans!
the big pants look was not a good one for me, although it did coincide with my first experience being real friends with boys so i guess some good came of it. i usually wore old men's boy-repellent cords from the thrift.
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
If I did wear skirts I always had to like toughen them up with shitkickers or some ugly polyester.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, February 20, 2015 12:02 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol 1990s
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
my waitress the other night was prob like 22 and dressed so 90s i was simultaneously attracted and then repulsed by my old man nostalgia attraction, i think she was stoned too
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
dressing 90s now is the saem thing as dressing 70s in the 90s was btw
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
that is old news amigo
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
ur old new ha burn
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
u know it
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
plz refer to me exclusivly as amigo from now on ty
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Yes amigo!
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
gracias
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, February 20, 2015 12:42 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LL is definitely old new, looks like you got a little blowback on that burn amigo
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
not actually sure what anything in that post meant
its cool man humor in the 90s is super random
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
It's weird to me that these are back
http://us.asos.com/ASOS-00s-Tattoo-Choker-Necklace/15a2xy/?iid=3859149&r=2&mporgp=L0FTT1MvQVNPUy05MHMtVGF0dG9vLUNob2tlci1OZWNrbGFjZS9Qcm9kLw..
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
I never had one though. No room cause I was wearing about 5 of these in various sizes at most times:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0sG8HkXbOFA/T0K-KTw6laI/AAAAAAAAAoI/I1ssAPr5lEg/s1600/lg-ball-chain.gif
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
oh dear god the cross I wore (goth not christian intent, natch) was no shit almost the size of my hand. And I have big hands.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
waitress was wearing a choker
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
obvs
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
how is it that I still have my notes from high school AP chem and all of my old genetics texts but did not save any of the many things I hung on my body? Not that it would much matter because I weighed like sub 120s because anorexia was also a 90s phase for me.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
interesting cause it was in a restaurant and u dont want anyone to choke i guess thats classic 90s irony tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
hippie equivalent to goth choker was the huge fucking HEMP NECKLACE that was like an industrial rope around my neck. i wore one with beads in it that were the size of grapes
― marcos, Friday, 20 February 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah those were terrible
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
I mean all of this was
lol i just saw that my dad commented on something one of the guys who used to work in our restaurant posted on FB so I followed some links and wound up on this daughter's page. She looks about 15ish and is totally wearing one of those tatoo chokers in her prof pic.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
wow erica stalking sexi teens online not cool
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
!!!!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
erica stop bullying teens online too
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
dont catfish teens its mean
totally unrelated but her dad and his brother worked at our restaurant on the beach for years and they were awesome. my childhood nickname for them was the doo doo brothers. kids, man.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/cool-guy-from-middle-school-still-sporting-phat-pa,34730/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:NA:InFocus
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
^ photo is amazing for catching the stares of the woman and kid
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
lol @ this $72 saggy dog teehttp://www.revolveclothing.com/wildfox-couture-the-hound-tee-in-warm-cement/dp/WILD-WS723/
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Sunday, 17 May 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Link broke
― Jeff, Sunday, 17 May 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link