# Are Pants So Big Again? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416 "2024-03-03T21:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/1 "2024-03-03T21:59:03Z")
I tend to favour slightly tight cotton jeans, preferably with a dollop of elasticity. But this article says people are trending wide. I don’t follow fashion trends, and this one does not yet seem to have taken hold in Canada (which is up to a year behind the States). Is this what you see? (Gift link; warning:longish.) > **[Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/magazine/big-pants-style.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z00.Zz24.7-v69P7CJg8i&smid=url-share)** > > And what the latest swing from skinny to wide tells us about ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/2 "2024-03-03T22:04:36Z")
Lil’wrekker has stated baggy is back. And loose, longish dresses. The baggier jeans started with boyfriend jeans. I think. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/3 "2024-03-03T22:26:18Z")
I’m sticking with my straight-legged denim jeans. I don’t care if they are out of style. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/4 "2024-03-03T22:26:39Z")
I don’t notice myself but the why is obvious. To get people to buy new clothes and retire their current still good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/5 "2024-03-03T22:47:20Z")
People who look good in skinny pants are at best 10% of the population. People who look good in fat-person pants are 90+% of the population. Which fraction would you target as a clothing manufacturer? As the prototype body for super-skinny jeans, I hate the fact I’m quickly running out of places to find them and I’ll be dead before they become the trendy style again. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/6 "2024-03-03T23:16:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > People who look good in skinny pants are at best 10% of the population. People who look good in fat-person pants are 90+% of the population. > > Which fraction would you target as a clothing manufacturer? That’s obviously not what has driven styles for the past 20 (?) years or so, as slim pants, skinny pants, leggings, and jeggings have apparently been the main styles. The (alleged) 90% of people who don’t look good in skinny pants wear them anyway, if they care about fashion. Either that, or all clothing manufacturers don’t care about profit. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/7 "2024-03-03T23:33:44Z")
I think very baggy pants don’t flatter many people. If you are big and tall, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/8 "2024-03-03T23:41:57Z")
I agree. Fashion dictates are often false and unobtainable for most. Yet we manage to find things to wear, somehow. I like the look of baggier jeans on women. Personally they don’t work for me. I’m too long and straight. They just look the wrong size. Of course all are too short. I think the better Jeans companies will always have tons of choices. If you live where these choices are available. Seems where I live is not it. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/9 "2024-03-04T22:59:19Z")
Whatever floats your boat. A bit baggy if you want. If you fear gusting winds you probably overdid it. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/10 "2024-03-04T23:43:13Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > I’m sticking with my straight-legged denim jeans. I don’t care if they are out of style. Me too. I alternate between blue and black jeans. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/11 "2024-03-05T00:23:01Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Me too. I alternate between blue and black jeans. I only wear blue. You are far more fashion forward than I am… ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/12 "2024-03-05T00:37:33Z")
Wake me up when low-rise boot-cut (with a bit of stretch) come back. I have tiny hands & (just checked!) can span my thumb-tip at my braline to my pinkie-tip at my navel. That’s if I’m standing straight up with good posture. “Low rise” fits me right where it should. (“High waist” I can almost pull up AS a bra, which is … not how pants should fit.) ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/13 "2024-03-05T07:08:26Z")
I noticed recently trying to buy suit online (now called “wedding suits”? that the pants are all “slim” fit, which means skinny at calves that doesn’t work for me ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/14 "2024-03-05T07:14:21Z")
I think I’m going to start wearing Zoot Suits. Everywhere. Daddy! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/15 "2024-03-05T07:37:02Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I think I’m going to start wearing Zoot Suits. Traitor! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/16 "2024-03-05T11:12:04Z")
I’d like to wear a zoom suit. But I’m still waiting to hear who’s that whispering in the trees so I can pull a comb through my coal black hair. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/17 "2024-03-05T16:06:50Z")
I didn’t note the original link was from _New York Times Magazine_. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pants-so-big-again/998416/18 "2024-03-05T16:36:34Z")
Periodically fashions change and I am temporarily “in fashion”.