Trigger warning: jeans are getting longer and longer in autumn
The fashion industry has once again come up with a trend that will polarise opinion. What do you think of trousers with an integrated trip hazard?
Do you like to get upset about fashion extremes? Extremely low-rise trousers, extremely oversized shoulders, extremely small pockets? If so, you can brush up on your vocabulary for the coming autumn and winter. Because: trend fanatics will be strolling through the world in jeans that will probably drive you up the wall.
Long, longer, trend alert
A video that's actually around two years old keeps popping up in my social media feeds. It shows a TikTok user fiddling around in a pair of Hell On Hood jeans that are about twice as long as she is.
Why is the video now circulating the web again? Because extra-long jeans are playing a not insignificant role in the trend outlook for the upcoming post-summer seasons. From Gucci to Diesel to Ordinary People, the collections for autumn/winter 23 were unanimous: Jeans are allowed to bunch up to the knee from excess, or at least slip under the shoe up to the ball of the foot and go flat.
Source: Spotlight
Source: Spotlight
The pinnacle of extra-long extravagance so far was shown by Sofie Axters, a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy, at Copenhagen Fashion Week. The legs of her artfully bleached jeans split above the ankles and flow behind the wearer to form a veritable train. Practical? Definitely not. An eye-catcher? Guaranteed.
Source: James Cochrane
It remains to be seen whether this trend will reach Hell-On-Hood proportions again. You can probably find reasons to be upset even at this stage, right?
Cover photo: James CochraneAlways in the mood for good hits, great trips and clinking drinks.
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