'It's the kind of jean Marilyn Monroe wore, with a white shirt and a megawatt smile, in the 1950s: womanly at the waist, but rugged and cowgirl-ish round the legs'
I'm not even going to try to argue that skinny jeans are over. That would be pointless, because you'd only have to look around you, or quite possibly just down at your own legs, to know I was talking rubbish. Skinny jeans have put down roots that go deeper than fashion; something about the narrow neatness of the silhouette has become a shorthand squiggle for modern life. But the skinny stopped being at the cutting edge of fashion a long time ago, and now and again a new jean shape breaks out of hipsterville and tempts us to try it.
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