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pegged-jeans hipster spotted on vandy park — Brooklynian

pegged-jeans hipster spotted on vandy park

alafairnadia
alafairnadia
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
at first I thought "where's your bicycle?" and then I realized ... the worst. thing. evar. they really are here. those hipsters. no. seriously.
this woman with the pegged WRANGLER jeans (pegged the old fashioned way - you remember, fold in, cuff twice) was attired in head-to-toe hipster gear, but the most offending aspect was the cuffs of her jeans.

of course, I reacted in a truly horrified manner on sunday afternoon when I glanced out the front windows of soda and saw a blonde guy in a busted fro wearing a wrinkled white suit and sneakers talking on his cell phone. I thought "wait, they dress that way during the day, too? can they be any more tacky?!"

finally, a band of 3 hipsters waiting for their slot to open up at the studio on st. marks came into soda on sunday (I really was only there a few hours - but the center of the universe is constantly active). their beverage request before they left the patio to make the best album evar: 3 buds, 1 bass, 1 stella, and FIVE IRISH CARBOMBS. good luck with that album, dudes. I'm sure you'll be opening for whatever band is cool right now in a few weeks. no, really. I have faith.
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  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    Ahhhh, pegged jeans.

    I tried that a couple of weeks ago (in fact, I was sitting out on the Soda patio), and it was so F'in uncomfortable.

    I couldn't believe I at one time refused to leave the house without my pants like that.
  • tk was me!
    tk was me!
    I had to google image "pegged jeans".
    Now I know what you are talking about..
    that does look very uncomfortable and since i have giant thighs,
    they will never look good on me. But it would be great for bike riding for sure.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    well, the whole trend started as being anti-hippy-bell-bottom wearers. so all the punks pegged their jeans to be as non-bell-bottom-y as possible. but now it's just stupid - it's not reactionary at all. it just looks DUMB! dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. etc.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave

    Subject: Re: pegged-jeans hipster spotted on vandy & park

    alafairnadia wrote: I thought "wait, they dress that way during the day, too?
    THAT was funny.

    Seriously, those pegged-jeans are A-Class Doushe. If I start seeing people doing that, I will not hesitate to tell them they look ra-tarded.
  • dan.h
    dan.h
    Too bad they sell pegged jeans around here now... they make my blood boil. Back when I was growing up here, all they had were super baggy ass-crack jeans.
  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    image
  • candicissima
    candicissima
    Oh man, that's painful. Damned hipsters. Sadly, it's only going to get worse when the you-know-what opens on Flatbush.
  • dan.h
    dan.h
    Im upset no one caught my Gentriconfrontation (TM)
  • candicissima
    candicissima
    Back in my day, we knew how the handle those hipsters. We would chase them to the bridges with brooms and bats. That's just how we used to roll.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    [hipsters'] world is entirely different from ours, a whole different set of rules apply, fierce, natural, savage -- [pegged jeans are] the only way they can survive in their world.
  • candicissima
    candicissima
    sweet tea wrote: [hipsters'] world is entirely different from ours, a whole different set of rules apply, fierce, natural, savage -- [pegged jeans are] the only way they can survive in their world.
    Haha, sweet tea wins! :lol:
  • pompei
    pompei
    im slightly perplexed, never heard of that term before.

    does pegged = tapered??
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    sweet tea wrote: [hipsters'] world is entirely different from ours, a whole different set of rules apply, fierce, natural, savage -- [pegged jeans are] the only way they can survive in their world.
    LIBEL!!!!!!!!
    LIBEL!!!!!!!!
    LIBEL!!!!!!!!
  • ar
    ar
    Candicissima wrote: [quote=sweet tea][hipsters'] world is entirely different from ours, a whole different set of rules apply, fierce, natural, savage -- [pegged jeans are] the only way they can survive in their world.
    Haha, sweet tea wins! :lol:

    And on that we agree!
    I think that could be the funniest adaptation of a quote ever!
  • liftandcut
    liftandcut
    No, pegged means folded over and rolled once or twice. Although the Korean kids back in the mid-eighties used to do the trifold and get them so ridiculously tight. Tapered is tapered. Then there are the skin-tight tapered jeans ala '84-'87 that all of the chix are starting to rock again now. Next they're gonna put the flower prints on the skin-tights, the ankle zippers, and side slits. Yo, bust out the pliers!
  • liftandcut
    liftandcut
    The thing that these chix don't understand is that those jeans only look good on about 2% of all women. Yo, and if dudes start rocking those again I'm hitting the streets naked. Anyone for socks on their cocks?
  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    liftandcut wrote: No, pegged means folded over and rolled once or twice. Although the Korean kids back in the mid-eighties used to do the trifold and get them so ridiculously tight. Tapered is tapered. Then there are the skin-tight tapered jeans ala '84-'87 that all of the chix are starting to rock again now. Next they're gonna put the flower prints on the skin-tights, the ankle zippers, and side slits. Yo, bust out the pliers!
    I saw zippered jeans the other day, but I don't think the person was being ironic. They were just out of style.
  • liftandcut
    liftandcut
    Hah. The ONLY person I know who can rock those jeans is Casey Court. She's got the style, the flair, and the bod. They actually look natural on her and she wasn't even a teen in the '80s! Holey moley. AND, she's my friend.
  • emily
    emily
    I am going to out myself here as total yuppie scum, but my parents took me on a trip to Europe* back when pegged jeans were de rigueur at my middle school. As soon as we got off the plane, my parents noticed people staring at my ankles and told me to stop rolling up my pants, because it looked stupid. Also, they were annoyed that I continually had to stop walking to re-roll the cuffs when they got loose. Eventually I caved in and stopped, but felt ill at ease, as though some girl from my school was going to pop out from behind Notre Dame and mock me for not doing my pants up right. On the upside, we stopped at a store in Heathrow Airport that sold novelty socks, and they let me buy a pair, because of course it's very important to have cool socks when you have so much ankle exposed. :roll:

    *We were visiting their haunts from when my dad was in the Army.

    ETA: Did this start as a punk thing, really? Because by the time I ever saw it, it was lame preppy. Like raincoats with whales on them lame.
  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    Did anyone ever experience the pinning of pants? This was basically the first step in the pegged pants then pinned.

    Yikes.

    The midwest was a fashion black hole.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    wait, raincoats with whales aren't punk?

    crap.
  • liftandcut
    liftandcut
    Yeah, I remember pinning. I think that shoelacing pants even predated the pinning, although they could have been contemporary styles.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    BrookFetish wrote: Did anyone ever experience the pinning of pants? This was basically the first step in the pegged pants then pinned.

    Yikes.

    The midwest was a fashion black hole.
    My brother went so far as to break out the mom's sewing machine to take the slack out of his pant legs... well, when he wasn't wearing Z Cavaricci (sp?)!




    BWA HA HA HA!
  • metulj
    metulj
    My jeans are pants, but the waffles are warm so shorts are pancakes.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    EmilyM wrote: ETA: Did this start as a punk thing, really? Because by the time I ever saw it, it was lame preppy. Like raincoats with whales on them lame.
    you're probably *cough* too young. :)

    see: http://www.powerhousebooks.com/inthepress/we'redesperatepr.html

    basically, it was the 70's punk response to bell bottoms. to be totally counter-popular-culture, among other things, the bottoms of your pants had to be the complete opposite of a hippy's. hence pegging. so culturally, it was relevenat in the 70s. obviously, pop culture adopted it in the 80s - I, too, was a victim of making my calves look gigantor. I refuse to do it again - I've got my punk cred, no need to relive the pegged jeans/zipped ankle guess jeans/z-cav pleated tapered pants EVER AGAIN.

    so when's the slayer reunion tour? I hear cannibal corpse is touring the UK.
  • drano
    drano
    Eh, I miss the cardboard straightleg jeans you had to break in yourself. Most of the stuff you can find easily is distressed - it looks okay, but on principle I am opposed to paying more for something that will wear out faster.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave
    liftandcut wrote: Anyone for socks on their cocks?
    An excuse to go around with no pants on, count me IN!
  • 11238
    11238
    If Champion sweatshirts and EG socks come back, I'm moving to Canada! :twisted:
  • stacey
    stacey
    liftandcut wrote: Yeah, I remember pinning. I think that shoelacing pants even predated the pinning, although they could have been contemporary styles.
    I remember putting permanent creases in my Lee Jeans and then making sure I had the fattest laces and of course, they could not be tied :)
    11238 wrote: If Champion sweatshirts and EG socks come back, I'm moving to Canada! :twisted:
    Im with you if what I called coming and going pants ever come back (dark denim on the front, acid wash on the back)
  • meganlibrarian
    meganlibrarian
    Candicissima wrote: Oh man, that's painful. Damned hipsters. Sadly, it's only going to get worse when the you-know-what opens on Flatbush.
    Er... no, I don't know what. What's opening on Flatbush?

    (me = oblivious, in need of MORE CAFFEINE.)
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