Millennials vs gen z: part who knows. Skinny jeans edition

[milotic2]

Facebook postGen Z has decided to come for skinny jeans, and though millennials have been lenient in counterattacking when it comes to other things (such as declaring a side part to be passé and the middle part being where it’s at), they have decided to resist the z assaults and retaliate

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[therearewords]

There is war are no jeans at all in some countries

[eva_hagberg]

Are they outlawed or something?

[dandyxwarhol]

Probably an example of a boomer lying to me but I remember my 8th grade social studies teacher telling us that back when it was the USSR, jeans were super rare and that if you went there wearing them people would try to buy them off you.

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I guess it was actually kind of a thing https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/32495/1/exploring-the-ussr-s-underground-obsession-with-levi-s-501s

[purrple_267]

That's true, as a child in the 90's I wore nothing but jeans (I also remember having a denim jacket to go with all that other denim), but my parents and other older people remember when jeans, sneakers and other Western items meant you were very cool.

I just remembered a chapter of a semi-fictional book inspired by the author's childhood in the 60's - a kid brought a chewing gum to school in secret and the whole class, having never had gum before, all chewed a bit...of the same piece of gum.

[vagina_dentada]

[dandyxwarhol]

lol I love your username

[__nocturna]

lol damn beat me to it

[eva_hagberg]

Got it. No, that actually wasn't a lie. But then again, it's not USSR anymore either, and yes, they definitely have jeans in Russia now)

[pi_lady]

That's true, back then it was hard to get jeans in communist Poland too, they were often smuggled in from Western countries. When I bought wrangler jeans for the first time my dad would say how it was his dream when he was growing up.