Gen Z killed tight jeans?

Skinny jeans that were once popular with Generation Y are now shelved and mocked by Gen Z as outdated items, so they should be thrown away.
“Tight jeans are out of date,” American actor Luka Sabbat told Esquire in an interview in early February this year.

Sabbat (born 1997) speaks personally, but his answer reflects the thoughts of most people born after 1996, collectively known as Generation Z in the US. According to the The Guardian , the generation war between Gen Z and Gen Y (people born between 1982 – 1996) has not been strange for many years. However, the battle is becoming more and more direct thanks to the emergence of social networks and fashion items. The latest focus of the controversy is the skinny jeans (tight jeans) – an item that was once loved by Generation Y, has now been abandoned by Gen Z, derided as an outdated thing, should be thrown away. Generation Z declares that skinny jeans are out of fashion. Photo: Guess. Say no to tight jeans Earlier this year, Gen Z launched a movement to remove skinny jeans from the wardrobe. There are more than 274,000 videos tagged with the hashtag “no skinny jeans” on social media. A video sharing how to “recycle” outdated jeans has attracted more than 410,000 views. Not only calling for Gen Z to respond to the trend, the owner of this video also advised Generation Y to also stop wearing this tight-fitting item to look younger and more fashionable. Everywhere on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook…, young people are showing their hatred of tight pants by throwing, cutting or even burning them. The trend of Generation Z is making many people look back at the early years of the 21st century, when tight pants were once a prominent fashion trend of young people. Skinny jeans have been promoted by many famous stars. Photo: The List. Skinny jeans became widely popular in 2005 after appearing in the autumn-winter collection of the Dior Homme brand in collaboration with designer Hedi Slimane. Pants with 6-7 cm leg sections were sold for nearly 300 USD/piece. Emma McClendon, author of Denim: Fashion’s Frontier , said: “Slimane’s skinny jeans were worn by very thin male and female models. This changed the marketing and styling of jeans from a sexier look. It shifted the jeans market from straight, low-waisted silhouette to a more hermaphrodite and unbelievably skinny look”. Longing for diversity Fashion is cyclical so an item that goes from fad very quickly becomes out of fashion, but a few years later it can return to create a trend. Same goes for tight jeans. Generation Z’s hatred of skinny jeans at the moment cannot predict the future of this item. And as Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh says, these tights are falling out of favor, but certainly not dead and will always find a place in women’s fashion. However, what interests many people is not the future of jeans, but the somewhat extreme attitude of Gen Z to this type of clothing. What makes young people today hate skinny pants so much? According to Emma McClendon, the problem is not only in the fashion taste of each different generation, but also in expressing the new way of thinking of young people in dressing and expressing themselves. Gen Z hates tight pants because they are uncomfortable and restrict the wearer’s figure. Photo: Shutterstock. “Gen Z likes comfortable, looser things. They hate skinny pants because it’s tight, constricts the body. Also, tight pants almost only compliment the skinny body. This goes. contrary to the trend towards the diversity of forms of young people”, Ms. McClendon said. When tight jeans were forgotten, baggy or straight-leg pants took the throne again. At the same time, oversized models are also more known on magazine covers, fashion catwalks. Last September, Versace introduced three plus-size models for the first time. Earlier this year, oversized model Paloma Elsesser appeared on the cover of the magazine Vogue . “There is no doubt about the trend of loose, comfortable, suitable clothing for all body types. This also fits perfectly with Generation Z’s call to protect diversity,” Ms. McClendon said. know.