The Big Pants Trend
A 90’s fashion trend has returned
Fashion is cyclical. The rage from a decade ago returns in a more updated form. So it is with the latest Spring 2024 fashion trend — big pants. Big pants were a popular fashion table in the 90s. Hip Hop artists popularized the big pants. The artist wore oversized baggy pants in every rap video, eventually leading to the underwear-revealing trend. This trend is FINALLY going out of style after being popular with teens for over twenty years.
Now, in 2024, big pants are on trend once again. Everyone from celebrities to stylists to influencers is embracing the big pants trend. Retailers have stocked big pants in their fall and winter 2023 racks. The trend has expanded (so have the pants) and Spring 2024 promises to show a wide variety of oversized pants. Shoppers will have a variety to choose from with denim styles being the most sought after.
Below are reposts on the “big pants” trend:
The 2023 Trend Every Fashion Person Is Ditching Their Jeans For
BY ANNA LAPLACA
LAST UPDATED DECEMBER 4, 2023
Before you come for me, hear me out: Jeans are the backbone of my wardrobe most of the time, but lately, I’ve been putting them on hold for an item that’s just as versatile, low-key, and cool as my beloved denim but is much fresher and more current,. The trend in question? Baggy pants.
Whether it’s the relaxed-fit suiting trousers that have become our staples or newer styles like cargo, all signs point to the reign of the baggy-pants trend — even among the Instagram crowd most devoted to classic style. (Looking at you, French women.) Much to my surprise, fashion people are selling me on this once-controversial trend and solidifying my decision to put my denim on hold this winter.
Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?
And what the latest swing from skinny to wide tells us about ourselves.
Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?
And what the latest swing from skinny to wide tells us about ourselves.
By Jonah Weiner
- Published March 3, 2024Updated March 7, 2024
At some point in the past few years, as if we didn’t have enough to worry about, everyone’s pants started to look wrong. For an improbably long time, the “right” pants — meaning those that conveyed some socially agreed-upon, baseline level of stylishness — had been, in a word, small. Snug through the thighs, throttled at the knees, close-cut at the calves, on intimate terms with the ankles. Running a minuscule gamut from skinny to the slightly more accommodating slim. There were exceptions, particularly when it came to women’s pants. But on balance, fit was the way good pants were supposed to fit.
My pants had been slim for some 15 years, since so-called skinny jeans first hit the market in earnest, around 2005. Narrow silhouettes quickly spread, until they felt less like a trend and more like a structural fact of existence: A decade after their ascendance, slim-fit pants remained common currency across generations, demographics, and body types. BTS, at the time the biggest pop group in the world, wore them. Underground Chicago drill rappers wore them, too. Hollywood leading men and neighborhood baristas, wedding planners and basketball players, morning-show hosts and accountants, youth pastors and construction workers, your nephew and your aunt. You might have wondered if we’d reached the End of Pants.
And then, in a rupture whose center I place within the broader pandemic-era upheavals of 2020, the “right” pants began to lurch away from the leg at scale. Jeans, a kind of Patient Zero for pants trends, showed symptoms of acute-onset elephantiasis. Stylish friends of mine and strangers whose outfits I ogled online abandoned their slim-fit denim for straight-leg vintage Levi’s 501s — something like the Greenwich Mean Time of modern pants — and then swiftly abandoned those for ever-ampler models. Paul O’Neill, the global design director for Levi’s, told me that in recent years he noticed a rise in kids hitting “thrift stores to buy jeans with a Size 46 or 48 waist and belting them, to get that oversized look.” He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.
Month by month, pants got puffier, growing higher rises and sprouting more and more pleats. Hemlines that once severely tapered now expanded, hovering like U.F.O.s above shoes or pooling atop them like swirls of soft-serve ice cream. On Instagram, fashion mood-board accounts, which aggregate “aspirational” imagery, did an increasingly brisk trade in photographs from the late ’80s and early ’90s of people wearing billowing trousers by Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani and Yohji Yamamoto.
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