23-06-2015, 07:52 AM
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Drain Pipes???
When you were young and trendy as we all were lol.Did you ever wear jeans so tight we called them drain pipes?
I ask as seemingly this is a new fashion item.
A woman in Australia was wearing hers but also helping
her friend to move house so she was bending down a lot
cleaning the cupboards and packing things in boxes.
During the day she started feeling funny feelings in her
feet and legs. By about 4pm she was finding it hard to walk.
She then had to struggle to the roadside where someone
spotted her lying down and they rushed her to the hospital.
There the Doctors found that her legs had swollen up so
much that they had to cut off her jeans. They said she
was suffering from (they did laugh when they announced it)
Fashion victim: rhabdomyolysis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies as a result of squatting in 'skinny jeans
They said that the tightness of the jeans had stopped the blood
supply and muscles working properly and instead of swelling
outwards they swelled inwards affecting the blood vessels
etc.
So I hope you trendy people on here dont fall for the same mistake
as this lady did.
p.s. After a rest and intake of water she is now OK and can walk
normally. Phew that was good. A fashion victim nearly died
wearing a pair of jeans. What would Levi Strauss say???
23-06-2015, 07:59 AM
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This is definitely not a new thing. I bought a book of bound copies of the Family Herald (Book Barn £1) on Saturday , it was dated 1891, there was an article about the same condition but, related to young ladies' tight sleeves! When I've got my laptop on later I'll post it, quite amusing , but, serious!
23-06-2015, 08:23 AM
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I can just about remember that the first pair of Levis I ever got were "drainpipes" with four inch turnups at the bottom. The fashion didn't last long for me though, as I quickly moved into the newly fashionable "bell bottoms." The worst and least comfortable fashion came in in about 1967 - the horrendous "Loon Pants"
Loon pants combined the worst of both worlds - very tight around the thighs and flared from the knees. I couldn't wear them. As a rugby player my thighs were too big to get them on!
What made me laugh at the time (and still does) is the attitude of schools to kid's fashion. In 1959, my first year in senior school, the school rule was that no trouser bottom should be narrower than 14." By 1965, when I left school, the rule was the exact opposite - no trouser bottom should be wider than 14." In other words, whatever the fashion was, the school enforced the opposite.
23-06-2015, 09:44 AM
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Re: Drain Pipes???
Originally Posted by MickB
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I can just about remember that the first pair of Levis I ever got were "drainpipes" with four inch turnups at the bottom. The fashion didn't last long for me though, as I quickly moved into the newly fashionable "bell bottoms." The worst and least comfortable fashion came in in about 1967 - the horrendous "Loon Pants"Loon pants combined the worst of both worlds - very tight around the thighs and flared from the knees. I couldn't wear them. As a rugby player my thighs were too big to get them on!
What made me laugh at the time (and still does) is the attitude of schools to kid's fashion. In 1959, my first year in senior school, the school rule was that no trouser bottom should be narrower than 14." By 1965, when I left school, the rule was the exact opposite - no trouser bottom should be wider than 14." In other words, whatever the fashion was, the school enforced the opposite.
they look so funny, are they wearing stilts?
23-06-2015, 12:02 PM
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I saw this article on the news this morning, who would believe it? I think the skinny Jeans that are fashionable today should be just sold for the female variety, as some of the young boys look too girly!I wore Loon Pants back in the early seventies, i remember you could buy them in all colours. Mine were maroon, i use to stitch coloured braiding around the bottom edge of each leg. And wear a hippy style t.shirt with embroidery/mirrors and sequins... Cool Cookie or what!!
23-06-2015, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Suzuki Sue
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I saw this article on the news this morning, who would believe it? I think the skinny Jeans that are fashionable today should be just sold for the female variety, as some of the young boys look too girly!I wore Loon Pants back in the early seventies, i remember you could buy them in all colours. Mine were maroon, i use to stitch coloured braiding around the bottom edge of each leg. And wear a hippy style t.shirt with embroidery/mirrors and sequins... Cool Cookie or what!!
Definitely !
I remember my hippy flower trouser suit - lemon it was with orange flowers - only wore it twice
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