Trend Watch: Stirrup Pants
Here’s an excerpt of a conversation from a post Lindsay (f/k/a Elle) and I made in July of last year:
Elle: Well, I like [skinny jeans].
Jennifer: I just…I can’t get down with them, Elle. They’re…they’re…
Elle: Don’t say it.
Jennifer: They’re tapered pants.
Elle: They’re totally different. They’re not cut the same as those atrocities from the eighties.
Jennifer: They’re totally the same. Next thing you know, we’ll be wearing leggings with footie straps.
Let me just put on my five-year-old-face and say,
“TOLDJA SO.”
Kova & T Oxy Leggings: $110.00
One hundred and ten dollars. One. Hundred. And Ten. And they’re shiny and liquid and they not only have stirrups: they have weirdly-placed stirrups.
I had these. No, really. I wore them with this pretty pink, purple, black and white floral dress, and white patent Mary Janes. My dress was fluffy, and I had a perm and doughnut bangs. I was five.
Sooooo sexy.
1985 Madonna meets homemade American Apparel ads. Wear with a sheer triangle bra and bright pink lipstick.
Citizens of Humanity Stirrup Legging Jeans: $172
For when you need your jeans to stay put under your riding boots while you’re wrangling cattle. Except that no, you can’t wear these while wrangling cattle, because they have no discernible pockets. And no discernible anything else. Except stirrups.
Can someone explain this stirrup trend to me?
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Oh…why? WHY? What is up with the ’80s stalking us? If we’re going to bring back a decade of fashion, couldn’t we pick something with class? Style? Like the’40s, or ’50s.
What are people thinking?
I so agree – bring back the 40s!!!
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oh no….well, I guess they want to give a whole new generation a chance to be genuinely humiliated when they look back at their pictures 15 years from now. That’s the only explanation i can think of.
(By the way, I had several of those lace leggings in neon green, orange and pink. And I loved wearing them with my over-sized 90210 t-shirt, which just so happened to feature similar colors. Hm, I feel oddly proud of that…)
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Yep. They’re back. I wore the in first grade and I wore them well. I think my legs are too long now! I tried on a pair the other day and it didn’t work… maybe they make them in tall somewhere?
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Totally obsessed with the stirrup look! I think you can totally make them look classy and wear ‘em to work.
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They go with the tall boot trend. Anyone who has sat around for an entire day with a rumple in their skinny pants bugging the back of their calves under a riding boot knows “why stirrups?” As does anyone who has tucked her skinny pants into a pair of cute little short elf or moto boots, and then worried about flashing ankle.
But just as in the eighties, stirrups are NOT ACTUALLY TO BE SEEN IN YOUR SHOE. They are a practical answer to the tucked-in pants problem, NOT an attractive solo look.
I wear stirrup pants barefooted with square toe ballet flats even when it is cold.