Are "floods" in style right now, or what?
AllenArt
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Please forgive me for my choice of words, but "floods" are always what we called really short hems that didn't even reach the tops of the shoes. I've been seeing a lot of 3D clothing with really short hems and wondered if it was in style or something. Hopefully it's not....yikes.
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if you have nice ankles but thick shins like me you display what's attractive hide what's not
As far as 3D clothing goes, I think it's at least partially a way to avoid having to deal with potential collisons of the dress and the tops of the feet and ankles, which is also what I suspect to be the cause for the disproportinate proportion of shorts vs full length pants in 3D male outfits. Sure, it's something that CAN be done, but it takes extra time and time is money...
That's what I thought too, but I'm not buying highwater pants for men. Fit Control has a lengthen morph, but I think it also lowers the crotch.
i was thinking the same thing when I saw the Urban Fit for Genesis 9 outfit
When I was in middle school in Georgia & Florida they called what you call "floods", "high waters", and believe me I know because the whole class would cackle in unison "high waters!" when I'd be escorted in after yet another truancy attempt by the local police.
Such is the price for growing a foot in a year. Practically speaking though, they are safer to wear than pant cuffs droopping all over your shoe tops, the floor, and impeding your forward gait.
Yup, wearing pants like that would guarantee you the "expecting a flood?" derision comments. Along with no safety belts, leaded gas, cigarette smoke and concrete playgrounds its a miracle we survived the things we had to put up with growing up. There is nothing appealing with that particular fashion statement given that history. Ultra tight suit pants is a nogo too.
Never heard that term, but IRL such pants are indeed in style around here, and have been for a while now. I live in Belgium.
It's fairly obvious that fashion designers are making fun of us.
Yep, they are in fashion in the US too. Watch any of the late night talk/comedy shows and you'll see them. I was just in the bay area in California and saw quite a few too, and they weren't worn by people who looked like the would ever wear second hand clothes
Good heavens! And right after skinny straight jeans too (which should go the way of the dinosaur along with "floods" and "high waters" LOL. I don't think I in my whole life saw anyone wear a pair of paints that was too short on purpose. )
There's Michael Jackson, but at least he wore sequined socks. Even he couldn't get people to follow that foolishness. But it's clear that people will fall for anything nowadays.
Have none of you ever heard of Capris?
Capris are more like long shorts or clam diggers.
It's cause everybody wants to show off their pattern stylish socks nowadays ¡
and their shapely ankles
historically pants never reached the foot that was the job of hose, legwraps etc
long pants trip you at worse get dirty muddy on the hem at best
or get tucked into boots, socks if you want to hike, fight etc
I think AllenArt is feeling nostalgic and wants flares and platform shoes to make a return
and to be extra, add cuffs
As someone who was a teenager in the 90s, I'd take high hems over trip pants any day.
If my memory serves right I seem to remember a lot of those "new wave" 80s bands in MTV music videos wearing high waters.
us Aussies have had some pretty interesting fashions over the years and still do haven't we Wendy
We call them 'high water trousers' in Germany too, they seem to drift in and out of fashion. Probably go well right now with all these young people I see wearing no socks at all in the middle of winter. Ah well, we all looked fashionably stupid at some point in our life I guess ...
we are a bit more laconic about clothing than many other cultures
In Denver, I have been seeing that style of slacks on guys for a few years. It looks weird. Often with bare legs and loafers. And going to work that way.
As for capris, if you are Audrey Hepburn, you can get away with them, but for a normal woman/teen, it cuts the body porportions off in an ugly way.
That being said, I live in jeans, tees, flannels, pull-over sweaters, and love hoodies and tennis shoes. Best thing about being 70 and retired, I don't have to live up to anyone's 'dress for success' standard anymore.
Well if AllenArt isn't I sure am bell bottoms with REAL platform shoes ,it was nice to be tall enough to touch the floor when sitting ,and never once tripped over my pant hems, though I do admit to kicking off the shoes and dancing bare foot ......ahhhh those were the days .......
Good gawd no! LOL I haven't worn platform shoes since the '70s and these days I'd probably break my leg (or a hip) if I wore them.
Well truth is so would I but ,in my dreams ...... I can still wear my platforms with my bell bottum hip huggers ,a crop top and look good too!!,dance for hours ,rollerskate ....... and run ......in my dreams .........sigh .......oh well .
Getting a chuckle out of some of these. The response to this probably does more to say exactly which generation you belong to than outright stating your age would. I don't mean that in a "making fun of you" way, by the way.
My mom has often said she misses hip huggers so much.
Floods seem all the rage at the moment:
(possible not everyone will see the BBC image of a large area of flooded fields in Yorkshire).
Anyway, the wet winter is causing flooding in quite a few areas of the UK this year. OK, these floods are not at all popular, but thay are the happening thing this year, and they're happening everywhere.
Regards,
Richard
I agree that many of the views come down to generation. I am in my 50's and my GF is 33 and questions what I wear often, LOL I got fitted for a new suit last month and the tailor gave me a hard time when I wanted the pants to be a bit longer in length.