Waking The Dead: Vintage fashions pervading current culture

Tight Man Pants

The current trend of tight man pants that may have been seen as a shallow copy of women's skinny jeans, has a deeper history that shares the blame with the misappropriation of safety pins. That's right, the punks. To the hardcore dispossessed teens that didn't stop sneering even to brush their teeth, skinny man jeans were the appropriately uncomfortable accessory to angry thrashing and homemade tattoos.

So the question is, do your tight pants cause pain, and if so, do you like it?

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, Grand Rapids Vintage Style Examiner

Cristina O'Brien is a fiction writer who wishes to trespass through the ages to amass bits of style and custom. She has found that what time travel cannot yet accomplish, a strand of pearls, a batch of cupcakes and a willing imagination are sufficient tools to uncover the vestiges of the past.

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