Pinstriped Jeans

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On the tube yesterday a very cute girl got off at Bank wearing... pinstriped jeans. And I thought -- "Wow! Those suddenly look really good!"

Which is odd, since they were the most ubiquitous denim trouser of 1980, (preparing the way for the burgundy sta-prest debacle of the following year) and within 6 months the most "pikey" unfashionable item you could possibly wear.

Today I notice my hipster colleague Celia wearing a pair.

This is thread where you can add your surprising fashion development observations.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

turn-up's on jeans

― Michael B, Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

Mmmm, dubious. Pin stripe jeans and those coloured/patterned shirts with white collar and cuffs.... No no no!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

That whole '80s thing is awful imo: lime green stripes, pictures of ladies sipping cocktails etc....it's not far enough back in history yet for a revival. So were these denim jeans? I used to have some striped, overdyed jeans, which I wore with jazz shoes and leg warmers. I looked a right bugger in retrospect.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

oh jesus, I remember my pair of pinstriped baggies. Looking back, I must have looked a proper nana

― chris (chris), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't seen many in the shopz0r recently - the ranges in the high street at the moment are the cropped faded denim pant look (ie RUBBIDGE) and still, trackie bottoms with either a stripe down the leg or "GUNT" written across the arse.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

At the Mary Timony show last night, there was a couple where the dude was wearing a suit and tie, and the woman was wearing a huge (hopefully fake) fur coat. Regardless of your feelings about fur, I think we can all agree that anyone under the age of 50 who wears a fur coat should be decapitated and peed on.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

I thoroughly agree. Fur coats are NOT chic. Unless you are a Parisian grandmother with hooker red lipstick and a smelly french cigarette. Now THAT is chic.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

do mark c's jeans that i got in the clothes swap count as pinstriped? they're stripey, at least...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

The horror, the horror.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Genius!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

Odd. My research suggests that 1983 rather than 1980 was the year of the pinstripe, but I'm sure I wore them when I was at primary school, ie before 1981.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

I wore them in 1984... pink and green stripes. Hurt me.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, after reading that website I now know for sure I'm living in the 80's.

I have pinstriped jeans, they're my favourites. I never had any in the 80's though, but I don't think I wore jeans as a kid, I was more a skirt and wellies girl. I did get a pair of pinstriped jeans in about '98 though and I've been looking for another pair since then.
I love my plastic bracelets, I've wanted some red Peter Pan boots for years, and I still wear my Pop-Swatch. I did make the wise decision of throwing away my Polaroid Glasses (with palm tree images on them) last week.
I daren't read past "P".

― celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

I remember really really really wanting this pair of Jordache jeans that had lemon yellow pinstripes on them, I thought they were so lovely. But my mom thought they were a waste of money so I just had to make do with my plain old jeans. If they come back into style I am afraid I will have to buy a pair, just to make up for not having them before.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

I wore pleated pinstriped jeans (dark blue with thin pink and aqua lines) with hot-pink and hot-green chunky knit acrylic sweaters when I was in 2nd grade...7 years old maybe?

That link above reminded me also of my Guess jeans with the zippers at the ankles, worn ages 8-9. Bought too long so they bunched at the knees and I could grow into them. Man, I loved those jeans. They weren't pinstriped though.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

And Colette, I wouldn't call those trousers pinstriped. They've got mroe of a herringbone thing going on.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

MORE.

n.b. I was 7 in 1985. Looks like I was already passe even then.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

my Guess jeans with the zippers at the ankles

Oooo, those are sooo 7th grade. That and folding and rolling the bottoms of your jeans. I think my current like for bootcuts and flares is a total backlash against junior high style.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

As is mine. I well remember the pleat-and-fold. That shit had to be TIGHT at the ankles or you couldn't show your face in homeroom ever.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

My not-so-secret wardrobe shame: I wore a sweater something like this when I was in 7th grade... except it was purple and had hearts and unicorns knitted across the top.
http://www.rustyzipper.com/pics/53444-M22427L.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

Luna those jumpers were a key part of my campaign to look like Nick Heyward over several years of the early eighties. Of course they had to be TUCKED INTO YOUR TROUSERS for full effect.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

Smoove De'Nimes to thread.

― hstencil, Friday, 27 February 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

I'm waiting for paisley shirts and drainpipe jeans to come back in.

Wait, maybe that isnt a good idea.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link

it's a terrible idea! how will i ever find clothes again if everybody buys them all :(

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago) link

Nicole, your vendor awaits.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

Black and white polkadots! Now that was the shit. I miss my polkadotted be-ribboned finery.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

I misread this thread title initially as Pinstriped Jesus.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 February 2004 05:15 (twenty years ago) link

I bought a pair of tailored pinstriped jeans at a market in Dublin about 2 years ago. The pinstripes have faded nicely, proving their eighties authenticity and my style credentials.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

I used to love my velvet pinstriped trousers I wore around 1999 or thereabouts. I wore them to my first meeting with an Interweb mentalist so they'd recognise me. I also thought they'd make me look indie and idiosyncratic and cool - I was wrong.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 February 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

You wore them with a satin blouse, right?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, a pink one. With a flower in the lapel, and a copy of A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu under one arm. Sadly, as I wasn't meeting Momus it failed to have the desired effect.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

A description of your footwear is imperative.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

eleven months pass...

I have a (baggy) pair of Diesel ones, but the waist is too big (Diesel runs everything large, I should have known a 29" waist would be more like 32") which for some reason makes the crotch bulge out. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link

When will pants manufacturers learn to make the rises on these things shorter? I know that sounds bad but believe me I put as much in there as most guys; it's just that I don't feel any particularly pressing need to store canned hams in my crotch. It's like they're trying to make my legs look even shorter than they are.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link

from http://www.rmbowman.com/catholic/s971129h.htm

"Are we looking for a mogul messiah, a pinstripe Jesus who will guarantee our financial success if we join the club?"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Spiked heels and pinstripe jeans...

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i had the raddest pinstriped jeans when i was a kid, kind of greyish denim with a tiny silver unicorn embroidered on one pocket. worn together with a lavender sweatshirt and purple-accented white reebok hightops... look out, world.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Wah? Now, I *know* I'm fat. :-( I cant seem to find any baggy Diesel jeans (for women that is). Grrrr. I know they make'em but the shops never seem to stock'em.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

hmm. i think it's the opposite with diesel for women. i'm one size bigger than in other brands, which is yet another reason i don't like their jeansl.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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