Project Runway’s venerable mentor and fashion maven Tim Gunn, who recently got his own show on Bravo, has weighed in on the recent, bizarre jeans trend started by Scientolowife Katie Holmes. This is the wretched trend of pegging and rolling the pantlegs of your jeans. Those of us who lived through this trend in the 80s are still shuddering at the memories- many of them captured in blackmail photos that will no doubt find their way into the hands of our children. Gunn is equally baffled by this re-emerging trend.
Tim Gunn is never shy about his opinions on Project Runway — calling a dress a “pterodactyl out of a gay Jurassic Park” isn’t exactly holding back. And when PEOPLE talked to the debonair fashion expert at the Tide and Downy Total Care Launch Party, he expressed his disapproval of Katie Holmes’s recent penchant for fall’s new baggy jeans. “I have to say, Katie Holmes has become so much more sophisticated in so many ways, but I think she’s in a dip right now. I can’t explain it.” Gunn actually sees the adaptation of the new look as a move back towards her younger look, saying “She ascended from this tomboyish waif look to an incredible sexy sophisticate. We realize how much style she’s capable of. I don’t get it.” But for those of us who are digging Katie’s baggy look (also spotted on Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston), Gunn does give us hope. “With the right shape, it can work very well.”
[From People]
I agreed with Tim right up until that last sentence- NOBODY looks good in pegged jeans. Except maybe hobos. I am mystified by all the horrid 80s trends that are being resurrected- mostly by people who are too young to know better. While school shopping for my daughter, I’ve seen leg warmers, oversize sweaters, and polo shirt dresses- all staples from my days in middle school. All of them are hideous, but the pegged jean takes the cake. This is a trend that should have stayed dead, and I hope that women don’t blindly follow this handful of misguided celebs. Ladies- it’s not a good look.
Katie Holmes is shown out in NY on 8/23/08. Credit: Fame Tim Gunn is shown below on 3/17/08 and in the header bubble on 1/10/07. Credit: PRPhotos.
It’s funny how trends come and go. I remember when I was in high school and the “mini-skirt” a la 1960’s came back in style.
I am just constantly praying that the ‘jeans-hanging-down-past-the-underwear’ look for teenage boys is way over by the time my son becomes a teenager. Every time I see one of these guys I have the irresistible urge to walk over and haul up their waistbands!!! (and yes, in the interet of not being arrested, I have restrained myself!)
I’m more confused by Katie’s hat! Also, look at those tasty bodyguards.
czarina, I’m told by a cop friend that they love that baggy shorts hanging out look because then when the kids get caught doing something, they can’t run very well to escape.
I agree with you about the looks, though, I see these kids on the bus, and they all seem to have to hold up their pants by the front, which looks like they’re walking along holding onto their penises, and I just think “subtlety is so sexy” and look away.
Who cares? Fashion is supposed to fun. If she looks back in pictures and is horrified, all the better. 🙂
Don’t forget that the saggy jeans make even the tallest guy look about a foot shorter than he really is. Paired with the XXXXL shirt, hell, any guy can look like he has been hit with a shrink ray!
I love Tim Gunn and agree with him generally, but I have to say that attending the “Tide and Downy Total Care” launch is not all that fabulous either.
am i the only one who actually likes this look? I think its cute.. :S
To my eye, the 80s jeans trend that was really bad is already here and widespread–super-skinny. Remember the zippers at the ankles? With little bows or rosettes?
The thing that really confuses me about Katie’s jeans is that they just look like old, beat-up jeans. Did she buy them at Goodwill? They look like the kind of thing someone might wear when gardening.
Yes, Rachel, you are. 😆 Jk. I couldn’t help myself.
I do agree with everyone who said that some fashion trends should just stay in the past, where they belong. (What’s next? Hammer pants? *shudder*)
Syko; Sadly, they are now making jeans that have the ‘underwear sticking out the back’ look sewn in (as part of the jean). Which means the cops can’t even count on them falling down when they are chasing someone!LOL
And another fashion trend I can’t grasp is letting your young son have really long hair (like Kate Hudson and Celine Dion). I mean, sure, live and let live, but WHY??
hate this look, now and in the 80’s. What’s next, the stirrup pants with the boots and rolled over socks??
My theory is that those are Tom’s jeans. She is wearing them because she misses him or whatever. But they are way too short for Katie, which she masks by rolling them up.
There’s a new trend (well, maybe it’s not new) here in the northwest where guys buy girls skinny jeans a couple of sizes too small. I don’t know how they even get them on – jump off the house maybe? Anyhow, jeans so small they can’t pull them over their boxers look just as stupid as jeans so big they can’t pull them over their boxers!
Some trends should stay in the past. Trends like miniskirts are actually flattering, thus resurrecting them from time to time is a good thing. Pegged jeans, acid wash, stirrup pants…these are just bad fashion choices and they look bad. Keep em dead! Fashion doesn’t have to be hideous to be fun.
I think she’s trying to prove that she’s such a style maven now that she can actually start a trend – even a horrific trend like this one!
Although Katie looks happy in these jeans, I am still scratching my head over the trend. I heard they were Tom’s jeans, but then later I learned that it is actually a trend. I have seen several people wearing them in magazines. They do look comfortable though I prefer the non pegged version.
Katie looks awful…for one, she doesnt even peg her pants very well. The cuffs look so messy….still, its a terrible look. right along with slouch socks, stirrup pants, acid wash, hammer pants and those ugly muscle pants.
When i was in high school…late 80’s early 90’s…we had these awful bell bottom band uniforms that all the girls would peg…it only made them look worse. Ugh. This is no trend to follow girls.
Me too lola….go ahead and wear your mans jeans…just DONT peg them.
I like your theory, MSat. It’s creepy enough to lend credibility.
I think MSat is right.
I will say, that I do like the baggier (as in not skin tight) and longer t-shirts, and long (but fitted) sweaters that are out. I think it looks so cozy with boots…and they hide the pooch from a good dinner
ER- that’s totally what’s happening up here with guys… the super baggy jean trend, so popular when I was in highschool, is being replaced by emo guys wearing the skinniest possible jeans I’ve ever seen… they look like little chicken-legged boys. But at least they’re not wearing leggings (I guess)…
I personally hate that peg jean look Katie’s doing. It looks goofy.
Confused? Join the club, Tim.
She looks like Huckleberry Finn. That’s sad because she’s got a very cute face, is tall, and can really ‘wear’ clothes, you know?
More important than what she’s wearing, I’d like to know where her spark went.
Maybe no one told her that if you’ve lived through a trend already and it comes around again you shouldn’t participate. At least they’re not acid wash too right?
I was a teenager in the ’80s… I cannot believe they brought back the bubble skirt and the slouch boots. What were they thinking? They weren’t good the first time round… why bother a 2nd?
Maybe this means the capri thing will die out, they look good on maybe one in a hundred people and if I see one more person in the office with them, violence will happen!
Trashaddict: Capris are great in the Summer, especially here in the DC area where it’s SO humid. DC is a former swamp that was filled in, but it still has the swampy feeling. If anything, capris are at least practical.
I agree about the jeans and other eighties trends–it’s funny, a friend recently posted on facebook some pictures of when we were pre-teens during the eighties. I cringed while looking at them last night.
Capris are evil! They make anyone who wears them look 6 inches more short and 30 lbs more heavy.
capri’s wont make you look like that if they hit at the narrowest (or at least narrowing) part of the calf where the leg starts to taper, are dark, and paired with heels.
they can be nice, then.
I’m sick of seeing them, though.
But yeah, I live in the dirty south, and I’ve suffered through the summer in jeans/long pants when I don’t wear a dress…just for want of NOT wearing capris:)
I have been rolling my genes most of my life. I also roll the sleeves of every long-sleeved blouse I own. Fashion never entered my mind, just like the look (on me). To each his own.
I totally understand comfort over style & I cuff my jeans all the time. But she just looks ridiculous. If you’re going to cuff your jeans, then cuff them properly.
Kerri~ I always roll up my sleeves. I can’t stand to have them down
I say—Let Them Wear Pegged Jeans!! This way, all of us who know better can sit back and laugh at these “celebrities” trying to start or follow trends which only make them look silly and which WE know they wear because they are so afraid to think for themselves they’d never DREAM of bucking even a better-left-in-the-past trend. 😈
There’s even a tenet about this:
***People with more money than sense***
That said, I vacillate between sympathy for Katie’s situation and anger because she stays with that S$ientology freak. Last week, I found a site which compared Katie-then to Katie-now and I was shocked at how bubbly and vivacious she once was. I’ve never seen Dawson’s Creek, but she had the cutest smile–lit up her whole face. No wonder they call her KatieBot. 😯
What’s with those hugh black & blue bruises on her legs. Does her Broadway play require physical activity? I sympathize with her, because I bruise easily. On a nobody like myself, who cares. But if I were a rich and famous persona, I wouldn’t wear a dress until the bruises faded away.
Very unflattering to have one’s picture taken and have it posted on websites with close-up shots and “circles” pointing at the bruises.
@ KERRI:
Where did you see those pics?
@solitaryangel: I saw the photos in the Daily Mirror. Here you go luv:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1049616/Pictured-Katie-Holmes-reveals-shocking-black-blue-bruises-legs.html
Thanks! Looking now….
Bootcut all the way, baby. I don’t care if people laugh at me, relentlessly torment me, call me hopelessly out of style or shun me – I will stick with my wardrobe of bootcut jeans forever. They make my legs look so much longer (I’m petite with a long torso but shorter legs). I hate the look of slim cut jeans on me, with flats – I look extremely stumpy. Now that I’ve had bootcut, I’ll never go back.
katie…make it work!
Well… maybe I’m just a die-hard nostalia freak, lol, but I think she looks cute, and I loved the style in the 80’s, too. I happen to have a body it flatters, though, where most trends do the exact opposite!
I had a pair of jeans, when I was in jr. high, that my aunt made so skinny at the ankle I couldn’t get them on so she put zippers in for me… man, I loved those jeans! I think I still have them in the back of a closet somewhere! Now, if I JUST wore the same waist size!
Oh, and I still slouch my socks, too. 😛
You’ll have to pry my capris out of my cold dead hands. I love ’em and they look great on me, but then I have legs that my father described as two pieces of string with a knot in the middle. I’ve never thought jeans were very comfortable and the low-riders keep falling down so I have to keep hiking them up.
Please God , don’t make baggy, oversized sweaters come back – I gave all mine away!
He’s also probably confused by the contents of Katie’s underwear.
Way to go Rachel! I love this look to. It’s one that I would totally wear! Very cute!
I think she looks cute and maybe she should think about switching teams.
Katie Holmes is what, 5’8″? And weighs maybe 110 lbs?
Listen, if SHE doesn’t look good it, NO ONE looks good it.
I like the look. I think it is super cute. You can’t please everyone. Comfort is probably top priority for such a busy woman.