Skinny jeans have been making a craze in the fashion world for the last couple of years. I’ve noticed almost everyone I know owns a couple of those jeans. I don’t. And I don’t think I’ll ever buy one. I move around too much, and I don’t think wearing tight-fitting jeans would do me good. And I’ve never really been a slave for the latest fashion trends, or obsessed about what to wear to work the next morning so it doesn’t really bother me if I don’t own skinny jeans.
What bothers me however, are the men I see who wear skinny jeans. And I mean real men (or at least they claim to be), and not men pretending to be women. Skinny jeans look good on most women—emphasis on the word women. It’s a disaster to see it on men. But there is a certain group I’ve noticed nowadays that is spreading the disease of skinny-jeans-wearing men.
Clothed in the tightest pants they can find (probably their younger sibling’s), tiniest black shirt, plus THE hairstyle where they comb their hair all the way on only one side of their head, these men call themselves EMO.
I often see most of them during gigs. Every year when my friends and I attend Fete de la Musique, the Rock Stage houses all kinds of men wearing tight pants. They might think the tighter, the better. They don’t notice that they look absolutely hideous. I think their point is to match their outfit with the kind of music they listen to, which is totally what a poseur would say. Personally, I listen to all kinds of music, just with different intensity. Mostly I listen to a lot of OPM rock and alternative, 70s rock, and 90s alternative, but I don’t dress up like a hippie. The worst part for these men is they parade their crazy asses in front of other people, probably thinking how unique and stylish they look, mistaking the smirks on people’s faces as looks of admiration.
For my part, I would prefer someone wearing normal-sized jeans matched with maybe a cool shirt, like maybe from 3 Stars and a Sun or American Blvd. It might look too simple for some but it gives off some kind of mystery because you can’t immediately tell the man’s personality based on his clothes. The problem with some men is that they underestimate the women. They think women are attracted to men who wear exaggerate pieces of clothing, but can any man out there tell me honestly if you know a woman who prefers a man who dresses up more outrageously than her? Seriously.