ShimyMisha
11-11-2009, 12:14 PM
The 1980s are making a comeback with the recent resurrection of skinny jeans. You may be cringing right now if you remember the horrific bubblegum jeans of one of the tackiest decades of fashion, but don't worry, this season's incarnation of the skinny jean is much more tasteful.
Styles of Skinny Jeans:
* Straight Jeans: The skinny-jean-shy can ease into the trend with the widely appealing and most universally flattering cigarette or straight leg cut. This slim style closely grazes your curves without clinging to them as much as other skinny cuts.
* Skinny Jeans: These are the middle-of-the-road: stretchy, tapered (ankle-hugging) skinny jeans.
* Super-Skinny Jeans: Super-skinny jeans have the highest percentage of stretch fiber and deliver a sprayed-on look (without the ribs of the 1980s bubble-gum jeans).
What to Wear with Skinny Jeans
In an interview with ElleCanada.com, Holt Renfrew's Erica Yeu advises that a long, lean top that hits at hip level (or below) is the perfect top for skinny jeans. She says that an empire waist top that billows out over the hips flatters wider hips and an ample bottom. For boyish silhouettes, Yeu suggests wearing skinny jeans with leaner, body-skimming jersey tops.
Skinny Jean Buying Tips
* The key to finding the perfect pair of jeans is in the fitting room, and this is even more true for skinny jeans. You’ve got to try on every pair of skinny jeans you can get your hands on until you find the right fit.
* Buy dark washes – indigo, dark grey or black – to create a lean silhouette and minimize your wider parts.
Read more: http://womensfashion.suite101.com/article.cfm/skinny_jeans#ixzz0WZWsoFOv
Styles of Skinny Jeans:
* Straight Jeans: The skinny-jean-shy can ease into the trend with the widely appealing and most universally flattering cigarette or straight leg cut. This slim style closely grazes your curves without clinging to them as much as other skinny cuts.
* Skinny Jeans: These are the middle-of-the-road: stretchy, tapered (ankle-hugging) skinny jeans.
* Super-Skinny Jeans: Super-skinny jeans have the highest percentage of stretch fiber and deliver a sprayed-on look (without the ribs of the 1980s bubble-gum jeans).
What to Wear with Skinny Jeans
In an interview with ElleCanada.com, Holt Renfrew's Erica Yeu advises that a long, lean top that hits at hip level (or below) is the perfect top for skinny jeans. She says that an empire waist top that billows out over the hips flatters wider hips and an ample bottom. For boyish silhouettes, Yeu suggests wearing skinny jeans with leaner, body-skimming jersey tops.
Skinny Jean Buying Tips
* The key to finding the perfect pair of jeans is in the fitting room, and this is even more true for skinny jeans. You’ve got to try on every pair of skinny jeans you can get your hands on until you find the right fit.
* Buy dark washes – indigo, dark grey or black – to create a lean silhouette and minimize your wider parts.
Read more: http://womensfashion.suite101.com/article.cfm/skinny_jeans#ixzz0WZWsoFOv