C/D: The boyfriend jean

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I think they look like absolute trash. I really hope they go away soon. Thanks a fucking ton, Katie Holmes.

SO CLASSIC IT HURTS

SO DUD ITS PAINFUL

Surm we are so alike yet so different

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this shit is heinous

Kill it, before it wears again.

do you think tom will be mad now that katie has a boyfriend

i mean way to be subtle right

i caN SEE HER FLY BUTTON!

wtf, why don't people like looking at women in comfortable-looking clothes

right

OMG they're loosefitting and she ROLLED THEM UP

!!!

i dont like anyone wearing comfortable looking clothes

i think they're very dumpy.

GOD JUST GET SOME SEARS TRACKIEDAKS ALREADY AND QUIT PRETENDING YOURE STYLIN

dem jeans have other non comfort related qualities as well

MY CAP LOCK THING IS STUCK. IMK NOT REALLY SHOUTING OR UPSET

dem jeans have other non comfort related qualities as well

Like what???? Crotch spikes?

haha. i think it's mostly the marketing that annoys people. it's like just wear his jeans then.

it annoys me cause chicks look dumb when they try this shit out

boyfriends-mom jeans are the wave of the future

bangin ur boyfriends mom is the new bangin ur boyfriend

so chicks can only wear tight jeans with a booty, max?

I MEAN REALLY IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? I'M A FEMINIST

Look, if you want to go run errands in comfy jeans--that's totally fine and admirable. I just wish people didn't go around heralding it as the newest fashion trend.

i would be totally uncomfortable in those jeans! too much fabric bunched up and getting in teh way of life

i am a fan of skinny-leg jeans tho

whoa sur i appreciate yr concern for teh ladies here but yr pov is missing one giant piece of the puzzle - me n max are just tryina keep chix from wearing our jeans - i mean get yr own jeans

I, for one, would like to go on record as saying yes, chicks can only wear tight jeans with a booty. If you are suffering from n'assatall, I don't want to know.

In terms of comfort, men's jeans wouldn't fit me in a million years, so these are totally out for me. For ease of motion, I wear yoga pants. At home. As pajamas.

In general, I think clothes should fit; if you have to roll them up and peg and ankles, you picked up the wrong pair of jeans from the floor this morning. Which is perhaps charming when you accidentally do it but less so if you crawled under the capitalist bootheel to pay $200 a pair for the privilege.

FYI the capitalist bootheel is a lucite wedge this season.

$200 for any pair of pants is the opposite of charming so I kind of don't get that argument.

i'm actually ready to start wearing some baggy stuff again but i need to figure out what belts to wear...

"Luxury denim brand Prps just launched its first-ever women's lifestyle collection in the States - and promptly sold out of one of their key looks. Thanks, Katie Holmes. Fans quickly took note after the "All My Sons" star was photographed wearing the brand's relaxed-fit Boyfriend jeans on a regular basis since relocating to New York in August for her Broadway debut."

Sorry, I misspoke: Prps jeans seem to run in the $300-500 range, based on a quick search.

wtf we deserve an economic crisis

hardly surprising prices

you are reinforcing my point here

fyi i have a lot of concerns about women wearing 'boyfriend jeans' including but not limited to

• get ur own jeans jerk--this is like how chicks always want to wear ur sweater--but they look cute my in sweaters--not in my jeans

• u look pretty damn stupid wearing those big ol jeans--what did stevie wonder dress u this morning--it seems like it cause hes blind and wouldnt know how to dress u

• jeans are for two things--showing off chikcs butts--and showing off burt_stantons package

whoa man... um ok but girlfriends look the best in the boyfriend buttondown, let's be real

having a substantial bosom pretty much kills that look.

xp My boyfriend would vouch for that, I'd say. Then, right after he said so, he told me to change into something else so I didn't get any Daisy May's BBQ on his good shirt.

"That looks nice; go find a Tshirt. In a dark color."

i dig on chicks wearing dude tops but big n-o to chicks wearing dude bottoms

having a substantial bosom pretty much kills that look.

you mean kill in a good way, right? killin' it?

man you guys are picky.

look just get yr mom's old 80s jeans out of the closet - ta da! free boyfriend jeans

are you guys debating the price point? because, yeah, $300 for this crap is crazy (i'd say that about any jeans tho). as a look in general i think it's fine for ladies to wear baggy pants though!

otm

http://www.denimblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/katie-holmes-baggy-jeans-again.jpg

like, i mean, maybe the cuffing/pegging isn't QUITE right here, or maybe she'd do better without the cardigan to show off the waist a bit more but overall i think this is a cute enough way to walk around.

pss make sure to scope out the latest styles in brooklyn for us

im going to special disco version most likely in my boyfriend's jeans

i think it's mostly the marketing that annoys people. it's like just wear his jeans then.

Yeah, I get irrationally peeved by the semantics of it. I hear the phrase "boyfriend jean" and I think one of the following three things:

- "get your own damn jeans"
- "if they're your boyfriend's, why are they $69.95 at the gap"
- "stop trying to use jeans to make people think you have a boyfriend"

There are all irrational knee-jerks but STILL

Actually I think the more rational fourth reaction is "let's just call them what they are, which is comfy baggy slob jeans, and quit pretending that we're so awesome that we can't mentally admit to purchasing and wearing such things, so we have think of them as 'boyfriend jeans' as if we're just casually borrowed them and are cherished free spirits instead of just chicks who want to wear something loose and comfortable for a while"

I mean, be slobby if you want, don't drag some possibly imaginary boyfriend into it

i don't have enough pairs of jeans to start lending them out

http://www.missxpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/da-brat.jpg

boyfriend jeanz

anyway girls can wear comfy boyfriend jeans if they want of course, but they won't be as hot as girl jeans

not a lot of boyfriend jeans at the hinder concert--will keep u all posted

I think they should just be called baggy jeans. I like the first picture of Katie--it reminds me of high school, and cuffed Levis.

lotsa wholesome otm-ness around here

My boyfriend's jeans would not fit me.

kinda gross
http://www.chicintuition.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/boyfriend-jeans.JPG

u know i was full of hyperbole on this thread, katie doesnt look half bad

she slammin tho

i just don't know why that's like the only jean she wears. maybe it isn't but it's all i see. it gets so boring.

i just wish she'd quit looking stylecloning victoria beckham

-looking duh

JEANS

how tall are you schef? im 5'7 and need a 30" inseam because torso is too lonng

y'all's a bunch of michael phelps-ian folx.

y'all got some of them there webbed toes too don'tcha?

its a genetic defect that i suspect originated in scotland

and yeah i can swim really fast

I read in a magazine that the proper way to way the boyfriend jean is to peg it just above the ankles, which shows of the comely thinness of that part of the body, thereby counterbalancing the balloon quality of the jean. Without this track, they maintain, the jean would be overpowering. This is ridiculous--showing off your ankles doesn't hide the fact that you are wearing baggy jeans. I think if you are going to wear baggy jeans you should just go for it--and not try to have it both ways by highlighting your thin ankles. That says, it does look fine on Katie and you may well be seeing my ankles peaking out of billowy jeans this time, say, next year.

thin ankles are a rarity though. most girls have legs then feet

That's ridiculous, the thin ankles thing. Some people ARE more fine-boned than others but look at KH above -- those aren't particularly "thin" looking ankles from that view, they look NORMAL and STRONG and obv she is a very fit person with every economic advantage, but even HER ankles aren't preternaturally slender!

guys, after all of this talk, i think have a pair of jeans that qualify as "boyfriend." a tailoring mishap was involved.

cankles~~

i have very slim wrists

I mean, fashion hates us enough as it is. Let's not make an even SMALLER percentage of the general population the only ones who are "good enough" ie thin enough, lucky enough, whatever, to adopt this style. Even though I don't like it.

Oh shit, am I posting from a different species than everyone else?

I'm really sorry for having intruded on your message board for animals who have legs then feet, I didn't know

btw im into this type of jean coming back in style for men

thin ankles don't really correlate to a thin person, though, i've noticed. mine are kind of skinny/knobby, for instance, while a good friend who's like a size 4-6 is basically the same width from her knees down to her feet.

the jeans in the first pic look good - not so baggy, but not skin tight either - but kh's are too sloppy for a shorty/tubby like me. i feel like only slender-babes can even remotely pull that shit off.

anyway, i wear cords! finding 'bottoms' is always a shopping nightmare for me :/

I think the article meant that your ankles didn't have to be particularly thin, but that perhaps they would appear so in opposition to the jeans. Also, I think technique was to show off the thinnest part of the lower body, as the empire waist shows off thinnest part of the upper body. I don't think the article advocated for anorexic ankles.

anyway, i wear cords! finding 'bottoms' is always a shopping nightmare for me :/

id like to kill the person who invented stretch cords.

as for ankles one of my fathers favorite things to say about me used to be 'my god she has ankles like a racehorse. thats good breeding!!'

unfortunately thats where the good breeding started and ended

yah i have terrible ankles: not cankles (thank god) but i sure don't put them on display unless the weather requires me to.

i would really love to find some pants that don't make me feel dumpy and unfeminine.

i'm 5'8 and i have to buy 34" inseams! i'm actually 33" but i mean that's just like asking for someone to hand deliver me a white whale.

yeah i have to buy 34" to wear with flats until this awesome slightly cropped/cuffed trend showed up, now i can wear heels w/pants, yay. i am 5'9" though, i thought you were taller than me schef.

i really think most people can pull off the boyfriend type of jeans it's just a matter of.. how soon is everyone going to get used to the look without automatically having it register as difficult to wear/unflattering, because we're still used to seeing superskinny jeans.

i basically am always wearing some kind of small heel so i seem taller than i am.

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i guess the effect is to suggest coyly that you have nice legs underneath? but it seems to depend on the public already knowing that.

+ i have probs with something being called "boyfriend," politically.

these are my ignant opinions on fashion for the day.

i have long torso; 6'2" with a 32 inseam.

katie holmes looks hot in them but that has nothing to do w/ the jeans

otherwise this shit looks repulsive imo

i guess the effect is to suggest coyly that you have nice legs underneath?

My probl is they would have to be parachute pants to be that roomy on me. Not dissing my legs necessarily, I'm happy to put them in tight jeans, but if something was supposed to be "baggy" it would have to be quite big. The difference between my thigh and my ankle is like

http://www.gama-go.com/images/D/1160_med.jpg

Katie Holmes looks like she's trying out for a Dexy's Midnight Runners video.

longer torso even moreso

6'2" & the jeans i am wearing are 30" inseam

wow!

lol susan