Your jncos may be frayed and soaked, but the Slim Shady LP just came out and youβre off to the theater with friends to see The Matrix.
We called it soggy bottoms! In the winter as it dried sometimes it would leave a salt line π€£
Mine got so raggedy that my toe caught in the hem. Fell down a hill and tore a tendon in my foot.
1999? Did bell-bottoms have a come-back in 99? I remember a brief spurt, but the heyday of bell bottoms was in the 70βs.
I donβt know that Iβd call them bell-bottoms like the ones in the 70s (with skinny/normal legs, then large at the bottom). Pants in this style in the 90s and early 00s were really baggy all over and frequently dragging on the ground.
Holy wow. They just took 70βs pants and turned the dial aaall the way up, didnβt they?
Itβs because theyβre for a niche now. I donβt remember them breaking the bank when I got them. More expensive than Leviβs sure but they definitely added a zero.
In the late 90βs, jeans with gigantic legs were in for both genders, IIRC jeans that were tight/normal down to the knee and then went completely conical down to a huge cuff were called βflares.β Or you had the JNCO style 'eight sizes too big" parachute pants look, which was somehow completely separate to the βhammer pantsβ thing.
The early 2000s had their own take on bell bottoms. Unlike 60βs70βs bell bottoms which were worn much higher up on the waist, were fairly baggy their entire length with kind of ruffled cuffs worn by both sexes, 21st century bell bottoms were pretty much only a female thing, they were worn much lower at the waist overlapping the βhip huggerβ trend, and were worn fairly tight down to lower calf and then had a significantly curved trumpet bell shaped cuff to cover the upper of the shoe but not sweep the floor like 90βs parachute pants. Meanwhile guys wore a lot of boot cut carpenter jeans that all had that pointless hammer loop on the left leg.
Itβs not pointless if you work in a trade, I used to hang paint brushes on them sometimes, but yeah, I donβt really wear them except a few times in the past I had manual labor jobs before I finished college.
I took carpentry in high school, and the school issued me a tool belt & tools. Iβm left handed, so I wore my hammer on the left side, and the bottom of the handle would catch in that loop and that would keep it parallel with my thigh, it didnβt bang around. It actually worked out fairly well; if I were to start wearing a full tool belt with a hammer again I might go back to carpenter jeans if they even still make them.
But, most people are right handed and wear their hammers on the right, and having tried it I can say hanging a hammer straight from that loop; itβll bash your knee out. Itβs too low.
We never referred to them as bell bottoms but by their brand name; Jncos. And they were rather popular for a subsect of teenage/young adult culture in the late 90s/early 2000s.
They did at my school, bell bottoms were huge in 99-2000 but died a quick death around 01.