Where Pants Go To Die...

Where Pants Go To Die...

(bad ideas for your posterior)

It's hard to know exactly what one should write about after the biggest holiday of the year, but I guess the topic of bad fashion is as good of a discussion as any. I have been wanting to examine the topic of 'meggings' since Anderson Cooper did a segment on it four days ago and, yet, was unsure what to pair it with until hit me...investigate some of those 'other' ugly pants that we have been guilty of wearing.

Just in case you don't know what 'meggings' are they are, specifically, really tight pants for men. Now I would be fine with a man wanting to wear some britches that were androgynous and comfy--the problem is it is based on the leggings which truly doesn't need or deserve a doppelgänger. The meggings do for the male form what they do for the feminine: accentuate the butt and thighs. If you have a nice butt and thighs I guess this is fine, but for the most part it makes a man look like, well, the picture to the right. Thank you Conan! 

What Conan is actually donning is the jeggings, but the male meggings looks very similar. Actually, Conan looks a little bit better than a trained model in the actual thing. 

Now that I am on the subject of leggings I would like to do a little 1980's hail to the legging with stirrups. If you lived during this decade and were a girl/woman you owned a pair of these. They slipped over your sock, allowing a nice little pooch to happen behind the knee while accentuating the buttocks. These were perfectly acceptable to wear with slouch socks or stilettos, as seen...hmmm...so versatile.

In this day and age we have taken the traditional and always flattering denim jean into new and terrifying places. One such place is the 'Pajama Jean,' which promises to look just like jeans but feel like comfy sweatpants. The problem with this theory is that the 'Pajama Jean' is made out of cotton spandex and it tends to cling like jeggings--not at all flattering for any "baby got back" girl. 

Jeans With Denim Lining

Another phenomenon is the jean that has flannel material inside. I'm guessing this is either for warmth, or for people, like myself, who find denim itchy. However, they are ugly. With all these attempts to trade comfy for fashion, and vice versa, I say life is pain. Wear your sweatpants at home, unless you don't give a crap, then shake your comfy a** around town with no worries. Or just wear the uncomfortable crap outside the house and deal with it. This attempt to turn the attractive into laid-back just isn't working and it's time to just call a spade a spade: enough with the lazy pants.