Skinny: The look with endless legs
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On some unvarying, designers instinctively know that whatever they put on the catwalk, its success depends on how compatible it is with underweight jeans. This is especially true of footwear, 98 per cent of which is now designed to line with a drainpipe leg, hence the enduring popularity of the high-heeled ankle boot and shoe-boot.
Yet viewed objectively - i.e. not through the prism of dress - the skinny is a highly suggestive, unforgiving item of clothing. In weird cases, a tight jean gets gynaecologically explicit.
It was Alexander McQueen, in the near the start Nineties, who reshaped trousers, elevating them from a safe also-ran fashion garment to something much more exciting and subversive. The late Eighties had been all about the sexy power suit, the heavenly body of which was a mini-skirt; not a trouser to be seen. The McQueen bumster was masculine and outrageously low-cut on the hips, hence its soubriquet, and finical. An ocean of whale tails (the evocative name for the visible G-string that was the fated result of wearing such a low waistband) was the result, as scores of "premium" denim brands launched to take improvement of the hipsters revival.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk