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PaperclipPerfector  9d ago (text post)   2358 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 26, 2025

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When are women going to realize how bad the baggy jeans trend looks (especially as part of a whole loose baggy style)?

Women walk around now looking like they’re in pajamas.

This seems like a lagging element of the anti-beauty aesthetics of woke, and I’m confused how wide spread anti-feminine dress has become

How wide-spread has it become? Look, maybe I’m just not as up to date on fashion, but I’m not seeing this around.

Assuming you’re correct about the trend, though, I would gently suggest that not everything can or should be tied to “woke.”

I'm surprised to hear you say you're not seeing this. This is year 3 of the trend, with it first getting popular in winter of 2025. I would call this the average level of fit on women I see these days. None of the women under 30 at my organization have every worn 'skinny' or even slim fitting jeans. I was at a pumpkin patch with my kids yesterday and about 80-90% of the women were wearing baggy wide legged pants.

Assuming you’re correct about the trend, though, I would gently suggest that not everything can or should be tied to “woke.”

Ok sure. But this specifically, I am hypothesizing is related to a general trend in media over the past years that have pretty explicitly pushed a reaction against conventional beauty standards of body shapes and fashion styles, and general downplaying of overt 'sexiness'.

It is a combination of very obvious representation decisions made in media, and my 'hot take' is that baggy fitting clothes are a lagging outcome of part of the trend. Showing skin is very 'out', and I don't think it's crazy to say that woke is part of the culture that's produced it.

I would call this the average level of fit on women I see these days.

Another variant: a cropped shirt, baggy jeans, and white shoes, likely Adidas, New Balance, or Onitsuka Tiger.

The baggy wearers might look bad but they probably think they look good. Woke aesthetics was about looking bad on purpose, like the punks did, but unlike punks instead of revelling in condemnation it upped the ante by challenging and hectoring people to praise it.

Sure, the women wearing baggy jeans aren't trying to dress woke or bad on purpose. I'm suggesting that it's more downstream on the causal chain, as a product of a bunch of media and fashion trends that intentionally sidelined traditional beauty aesthetics.

Damn. You hate to see it.

If I had to come up with a theory, I’d expect something about 90s revival. Or, as @Crowstep put it, the millennials were big on skinny jeans, so the fashion barber pole has turned back towards loose ones. This fits the timeline better since there was a definite 80s revival in the last few years.

Or maybe people just put on weight during COVID.

Baggy jeans are pretty much universal among Zoomer women. They are just as ubiquitous as skinny jeans were on millennial women.

The worm will turn though, fashion will change, 'twas always thus.

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