Tiny suits, skinny jeans, and shrunken shirts – hallmarks of the latest ultra-fitted era in men’s fashion – are relaxing a bit. Branching out from traditional menswear outlets, guys are exploring what used to be haunts just for women.
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Mirror, Mirror: Menswear’s cleaning up its hipster/hip-hop act
ISTANBUL – For more than four years, Abdulhalim Demir, a Turk who resides in Istanbul, sandblasted jeans to give them a faded, worn or bleached look. Jeans wearers in Europe may have been pleased with his work, but the dust that Demir inhaled on the job badly scarred his lungs.
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When my editor suggested I check out a new body scanner that’s supposed to take the guesswork out of finding the perfect-fitting jeans, I figured it would be a blow to my ego.
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JLS have only been in LA for a few weeks and already they are turning into all-American boys.
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Aston Merrygold of JLS wears stupidly low-slung jeans in LA
Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh has landed a presenting role – fronting a documentary about jeans .
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Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh lands documentary presenting gig – about the history of jeans
Has Edward Scissorhands been doing Miley Cyrus’ washing again? The singer’s ripped jeans were hanging by a thread as she walked to a Malibu studio to work on her new album. She has rallied showbiz pals including Britney Spears to donate clothes to her ebay.com/miley website to raise money for Haiti.
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The proliferation of high-end denim brought with it two fashion plagues: the muffin top and its first cousin, plumber’s pant.
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Mirror, Mirror: Jeans that put muffin tops, cracks behind you (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
So this is Posh Spice’s idea of dressing down.
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Victoria Beckham goes casual in jeans on cinema trip with kids (Daily Mirror)
Elizabeth Wellington: With so many denim options, it’s easy to understand why fashionable men are struggling to find the right fit for their jeans.
Continue here: Mirror, Mirror: What’s fitting for today’s man in jeans (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
SEPANG – A Japanese woman was charged in court today with trafficking 4.7kg of methamphetamines and faces the death penalty if convicted. Mariko Takeuchi shook her head in acknowledgment as the charge was translated by an interpreter, at the Magistrates Court here. The 35-year-old woman, who was detained at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on October 30, was dressed in a blue T-shirt and jeans …
More here: Japanese woman faces death for drugs (Malaysian Mirror)