While getting my Carmen Sandiego on these past two weeks, I noticed a fashion trend that seems to be gaining an alarming amount of traction: harem pants. Not familiar? Perhaps you remember ‘Hammer’ or ‘Parachute’ pants? Yeah, now you remember. Here’s a shot from AA just to jazz up your morning.
seriously people?
Of course, late to fashion as I am, AA has been selling these diaper-pants for a few months now. Ok Fine, but I have only recently seen them out and about. But they are out in force: Naxos, Santorini, Athens, Barcelona, and Paris. Imagine squads of saggy butted chicks rolling around in these, all talking about their new Prada bags, going out for drinks later, and strapping on some gladiator sandals to boot. Sometimes the fabric is so thin that I can actually tell when offender is farting! (it totally billows out a bit) And the colors. Usually pink, white, or black. Occasionally blue, and they fall anywhere from knee to ankle.
Please, I implore you blogosphere, what is the appeal of these pants? How is this sexy? I was under the impression that the world universally hated these, burned all the patterns, and refused to ever make more (like candy corn). Is it the extra room in the back? Are those without junk in the trunk trying to make some sort of statement? Are ladies digging the ability to channel their inner Hammer/Vanilla Ice extempore? I just don’t get it.
Gross. Gross. Gross. None of you are Princess Jasmine, and even if you were – would you really be wearing garbage like this? Seriously ladies, lay off the harem pants.
If you only saw them in Greece, then it’s probably just a Eurotrash thing. I haven’t seen it here yet, but then again Chicago’s always a little bit behind on the trends.
As of present all of Europe seems to be aflame in haremity. I blame the French, Dov Charney, and all the other usual suspects.
Also – I think a lot of U.S. tourists are picking up on it this month as they see others rocking them around the islands. Prepare for a hammer pants invasion later this month when they return.
let it be known – i predicted this hammer pants thing. however, i may have seen it starting a few months earlier.
http://nickmarino.blogspot.com/2007/07/future-predictions-2008.html
EDIT: ANNNDDD speaking of predicting the future, i’m also doing pretty well so far with my 2009 predictions from last year:
http://nickmarino.blogspot.com/2008/12/future-predictions-2009.html
cowboy boot styles have actually been embraced by urban fashion (SouthPole has a ton of hip hop cowboy boot looking shoes out). brazilian food is really popular as trendy dining goes. and supervillains have been all the rage lately – just look at Marvel’s Dark Reign, Joker getting an academy award, and tons more.
wow. i totally forgot about that post. nick… nostradamus… nickstradamus? I smell a new feature.
mmmm, candy corn…(*sound of homer drooling*) – but I digress…
Hip hop people cannot sport cowboy boots or even anything vaguely resembling them. This is a well known and established fact. The shitkickers will just jump right off their feet and kick them in their crotch/ass for trying it. You have to SING (and I mean sing, not rap) either country OR western to wear cowboy boots. Otherwise you are just an idiot trying to look fashion-trendy by wearing footwear that saw its heyday in the late 1800’s. Don’t get me wrong, the cowboy boot is great. It is venerable piece of footwear that should be limited to those that can appreciate their comfort and not care how out of style they look.
oh tom… were i not in excruciating pain from having my wisdom teeth ripped out of my face this morning, i’d argue that cowboy boots – much like large clocks – do not belong to a particular culture genre – but are more like memes that may be adopted by anyone.
however, given that i am in excruciating pain, i’m going to hunt down some vicodin.