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Hopefully 2026 Brings an End to the Women’s Baggy Jean Era
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This doesn’t have anything to do with Philly sports, but I reckon there are many local fans who can relate to their wives and girlfriends now dressing like eighth graders from the Limp Bizkit era:
The baggy jeans are everywhere. It’s out of control. I asked my wife why this is the case and she told me it’s because a combination of influencers and European fashion people decided that it was the current trend. How ridiculous is that? Some haughty Parisian elites and dipshit “content creators” decide what’s cool and then legions of American women fall in line.
No doubt the wide-leg jeans are comfortable. Maybe you’re a mom and just trying to survive the day without asphyxiating your lower half. It’s not hard to understand why the WAGs jumped on this trend faster than a free agent signing with the Dodgers. They don’t want to wear constricting clothing for the same reason men don’t want to wear skinny jeans and medium undershirts. Because it sucks. It’s irksome and distressing. And in a post-COVID era when people are hybrid and/or working from home, fashion has taken an obvious backseat in line with the waning attitude toward office culture of the 2010s. When you’re not getting up and getting dressed five days a week, your personal wardrobe begins to mirror the less-formal approach that most of us now share.
Regardless, the baggy jeans are fugazi. Women in 2026 look like men in 1996, when we all wore those gaudy JNCO corduroys that dragged all over the hallway floors of middle schools across the Delaware Valley. Throw on a pair of Airwalks and we all had the same skater vibe going on, straight out of Thrasher magazine or the 1998 Family Values tour. Looking back, I guess we were probably posers in the same way Millennial moms are now biting hard on these Instagram trends while doom scrolling after the kids finally go to bed. Women are dressing like men now, but with all the shit they deal with on a daily basis, can you really blame them?
If anything, we should realize how good we had it 10 years ago, when heeled boots and tight jeans were all the rage. What a time to be alive. If fashion is cyclical, tell the influencers that 2026 is now 2013.
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Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com