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lol what a weird time

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link

This is awesome news for fashion.

how's life, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link

wait now I really want to know what you switched to sophomore year!

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 20 February 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link

damn i used to love jncos when i was 13-14. i so badly coveted this pair of cordoruoy jncos my friend had, they were brown and the cords were like half an inch thick

marcos, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link

Whether I was just too old for JNCOs or not in the right geographic location/groups, I was totally unaware of them until they were over. Content to remain unaware tbh.

Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 20 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link

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

wonder when those zipper ankles will come back and if they do, will do so with 35" inseam

― 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

ur old new ha burn

― 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

walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link

its cool man humor in the 90s is super random

lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:41 (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

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link

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

lag∞n, Friday, 20 February 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

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


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