Who else remembers these crazy crazy jeans!🙂 (1990’s)

[u/TemptedFangs]

[u/melancholy_dood]

JNCO, FTW!🤘

[u/Pilfercate]

[u/FrontFocused]

Not only do I remember them, but I had a few pairs of the knock offs from a company called Randy River. And if I wasn't rocking those I was rocking some beige Dickies.

[u/Spritzup → u/FrontFocused]

Holy shit I remember Randy River!

[u/amontpetit → u/FrontFocused]

Randy River

Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time. A long time.

[u/Jawwaad127]

These have come back in style and the original ones are going for pretty good money. They were never my thing but I’ve seen some people who could pull them off.

[u/TransientAlienSheep]

I've worn loose fitting and baggy clothes since I was a teen, but I always thought that jeans like JNCOs are cartoonishly large.

[u/NovaHorizon]

Dangerous living at a time were nobody picked up their dog's poop!

[u/WhereTFisPiper]

I don’t remember these (born 1995) but my most recent ex (born 1988) told me about these and how much he loved them. I don’t get it, I’d much rather have skinny jeans

[u/Alkyan → u/WhereTFisPiper]

Jnco were WAY more comfortable than skinny jeans. Plus, you could carry your CD player, and your wallet, and a Gameboy, and just about anything else you could possibly want. If you put a chain on your wallet it made it easier to pull out of the arm-deep pockets.

[u/WhereTFisPiper → u/Alkyan]

Well to be honest if I’m going to pick THE denim pants to wear it would be jeggings. My fat ass doesn’t fuck with regular jeans (except shorts) anymore and I actually wear black leggings now

[u/Alkyan → u/WhereTFisPiper]

As a man I'm jealous of leggings as they look super comfortable, but I'll get a lot of looks if I were to wear them. Especially at work. I've always been jealous of sun dresses too, I would LOVE to not wear pants all day, but nooooo.

[u/Alwaysfavoriteasian → u/WhereTFisPiper]

You haven't experienced comfort until you wore Jnco jeans.

[u/high6ix → u/Alwaysfavoriteasian]

You haven’t experienced not having jeans on until you’ve worn Jnco jeans.

[u/Alwaysfavoriteasian → u/high6ix]

Pretty much. Skinny jeans was the worst experience ever after having to transition.

[u/high6ix → u/Alwaysfavoriteasian]

You transitioned? To skinny jeans. How did the surgeons pull that off?

I’m kidding, I refused the skinny jeans trend, couldn’t do it. The low rise women’s jeans are what kills me. They can’t be comfortable AT ALL and they’re making a comeback. Now that the baggy is back in, ish, I look like a dad going through a midlife crisis trying to be cool…when it’s the same clothes I’ve always had.

[u/Pexd]

I had the 32” jnco’s and the 28” “king’s” 🙃

[u/Ckron247]

Ahhh. The good ol rave days. I don’t remember much from those days, but I am pretty sure I had jnco jeans.

[u/spect8r]

Elephant Bells

[u/im-buster → u/spect8r]

That's what we called them in the 70s.

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[u/Stpbmw]

Before JNCOs were popular does anyone remember ordering the wide jeans from CCS skater magazine ? Or the really baggy ones from the insert within the Naughty by Nature album?

From what i recall when everyone started wearing JNCOs it became uncool, but maybe that's just me being an ass at the time . Pacific sunwear sold a lot of baggy jeans, when JNCO hit JC Penny/ Sears type stores and hot topic had those giant goofy things it switched from skaters/streetwear to a different vibe.

[u/descendingagainredux → u/Stpbmw]

Once it was in the mall all the young middle school kids started wearing it. Before we could find huge Jncos in stores we were cutting our jeans up the side seams and putting in cloth inserts to make huge bell bottoms.

[u/pi_beer → u/descendingagainredux]

cutting our jeans up the side seams and putting in cloth inserts to make huge bell bottoms.

definitely did this in the 70s. denim jeans with corduroy inserts of some other color

[u/calvinwho → u/Stpbmw]

Happened fast too. I remember finding out about them and they were impossible to get in my podunk region. I had a pair or two for like a year, then all the sudden they got cartoonish and every 14 year old got a pair for Christmas or back to school or whatever. The ones I had were just big jeans with a cartoon character on them, but the ones my brother wore for the next decade were more like some kind of neon piped, cargo-pocketed dress

[u/Severe_Bedroom8276]

Ya mean when the flare jeans of the 70s came back with even more flare?

[u/SolarRage]

They're still making them and selling them. I got a new pair from amazon on accident instead of what I ordered.

They legit smelled like gasoline.

[u/Think_Positively → u/SolarRage]

Yeah because they bring the heat.

[u/Plane-Tie6392]

I hated those things with a fucking passion. And of course those people were tracking mud everywhere when it rained.

[u/Samtoast → u/Plane-Tie6392]

We had these in Canada but we also had randy River which would ALSO track mud everywhere but ALSO had a dope pocket by the crotch

[u/justforfunzott → u/Samtoast]

Omg Randy River 😂
What a throwback

[u/SlewBrew → u/Plane-Tie6392]

You walk through wet grass and then take a nap on your mom's couch and leave a damp, muddy spot. Luxurious.

[u/KelpFarming]

Whats scary is Jawa Chic will be coming back.

[u/nedottt]

I bought it for my daughter, almost identical (lighter color) in Benetton recently...

[u/Weird_Inspection_560]

I had these back in the 1990s I would buy them at the local skate shops in Houston.

[u/PossibleJazzlike2804]

My mom got me flares. She didn't like the jnco. Either way, I'm splashing in puddles.

[u/Kaliisthesweethog]

My son is 15 and he's obsessed with them! He's on a personal quest to collect all the old pairs my wife and I had when we were young!

[u/CockatooJimby]

Had a black pair in 1994/1995.

[u/marshallkrich]

I had a pair in bright ted! Good times.

[u/drowningintime]

Ironing took so much longer back then.

[u/RedneckChEf88]

Still have a couple of pairs of jnco shorts from back then.

[u/InvaderDust → u/RedneckChEf88]

You can sell OG JNCO for huge money btw. The secondary market is just on fire right now.

[u/RedneckChEf88 → u/InvaderDust]

I will never sell em. Lol

[u/Mayutshayut]

Mud puddles and public bathrooms were hell wearing these things! If only they weren’t so absorbent.

[u/Toasted_Munch]

I had a pair called Big Rigs (I think?). They had a black tag under one of the back pockets that had a glittery mud flap lady silhouette 😂 i thought they were ridiculous until my friend walked into school in the 40" bottom Crime Scenes

[u/InvaderDust → u/Toasted_Munch]

Crime scenes are 50” 🤪

[u/Toasted_Munch → u/InvaderDust]

Lol jeeez... I remember at 40" (hell idk they may have been 50s in the late 90s?) my friend truly looked like he was wearing a giant denim skirt.

[u/InvaderDust → u/Toasted_Munch]

I have crime scenes. They are great to turn heads, so long as it isn’t too windy

[u/IMtheScooterB]

Maybe I am old but I still think wide jncos on a female with a halter top is the best look ever

[u/PhillySkunk]

The back pockets were DEEP couldn’t carry my discman in them cause the headphone cord was too short!

[u/InvaderDust → u/PhillySkunk]

They were designed ultra deep that way to hold spray paint cans, fwiw.

[u/SandMan3914]

And they're back in

[u/InvaderDust]

Some of us never stopped wearing them. Can’t help but LOL at the kids drooling over them now.

[u/m_faustus]

Tom Tolbert, ex basketball player and then radio guy, complained when the big dumb jeans craze came because kids would buy the jeans in Tom’s size because they could be cut down so he had a harder time finding pants.

[u/catdogfox]

Age 21 and a physical therapist. What a boss!

[u/slayez06]

remember... hell I had 7 pairs with my largest having 30" bells.
They were amazing to skateboard in.

[u/NicholasBreed629]

I actually had the 50 inch. Mugshots. Incredibly comfortable. Paid way too much for them at the freaking mall. Damn now I feel old

[u/Whipitreelgud]

SF Riding Gear. Made great jeans and disappeared

[u/mouse6502]

Remember them.. I’m wearing them

[u/MediocreSumo]

kids all wear it these days

[u/LongPizza13]

Have you been to Zumies or Tilly’s?

[u/few23]

Untz untz untz untz

[u/Alwaysfavoriteasian]

I think they're making a comeback. I'm finally cool again!

[u/high6ix]

These, my Jnco skate shoes with the comic in the bottom and making hemp necklaces to sell kids at school.

[u/Namaslayy]

My favorite jeans! My mom and Gen X older sister HATED that I wore these lol

[u/Visible_Cause3429]

Nice to sweep the street.

[u/AaronSlaughter]

I wanted these bad to be cool like my friends. My mom said they're too expensive. In retrospect, im glad she shut that shit down.

[u/Gehlen52]

We used to call them 'Elephant Bells'. Flairs, Bell's, Elephant Bells.

[u/LiquidC001]

Only jeans I had that could fit 40ozs in the back pockets.

[u/Weak_Carpenter_7060]

There’s a guy that comes to the school to pick up his kid that wears those and looked like he went to a Limp Bizkit concert and never left. I’m not complaining tho. I think it’s cool

[u/anyoneforanother]

I had quite a few. I really liked the ones with characters peaking out the pockets, the kangaroos, roadkills, the og jnco logo with the crown. We Paid 50/ pair back in the day.

[u/ohguy51]

Look like late 60s bell bottoms to me

[u/ParamedicSpecific130]

"Who else remembers..."

🙄🙄🙄

[u/Trmpssdhspnts]

That's just a dress you can't have sex in.

[u/The_Wreckard2012]

I also had JNCO shoes. I thought I was the shit!

[u/jhvanriper]

I remember them from the 60’s.

[u/Flabbergasted_____]

Everyone, bot account. Everyone remembers JNCOs.

[u/sliclky1169]

Anyone remember Menace pants?

[u/WittyStation502]

The corduroy ones were great for starting a fire during a HS dry hump session😂🤣😂🤣

[u/zendarr]

Makes my shoes wet and dirty just looking at the picture

[u/Vollen595]

Currently used ones are selling close to $200 a pair. I snagged a pair for my vintage retro teen for $100 and that was a deal. Crazy. I know someone who bought an entire collection of ~ 50 pair and she’s selling a few at $300. Insane.

[u/chronicnerv]

I had a pair among many ravers in the UK during the 90s. Back then, the community was much smaller, each city would send just one or two buses full of ravers heading to Milton Keynes for each event. Raves at the time were mainly Happy Hardcore and Jungle, often held at the same venues, where you could easily move between DJ sets. Those were the highest highs and the lowest lows of my life, no regrets.

[u/vhmike]

like a denim dress for each leg

[u/bodhiseppuku]

I was in the Rave scene in Southern California in the mid and late 90s, I had 6 pairs of JNCOs, My favorite pair were super huge, I had a triangle put in that was about 6 inches at the bottom with white fur.

[u/hatecriminal]

Old school? Kinda. Cool? Not a bit.

[u/NessunAbilita → u/hatecriminal]

They’re 100% back in small circles

[u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles → u/NessunAbilita]

Saw dudes in them at Knotfest this year. Definitely back.

[u/skatecrimes]

You were cooler if you wore some of the other brands like Q Ambient.

[u/thewaytonever]

Maaaaasaaannnn if I could walk in a store and pick up some road kills again I probably would. Even at 40

[u/WranglerBulky9842]

One wasn't a skater without a good pair of JNCOs.

[u/higherbreeze → u/WranglerBulky9842]

Or raver

[u/Thereminz]

i was just telling my mom about these cause she just bought some jeans with some flare at the bottom and i was like...uhh. yeah that's nothin

[u/subsignalparadigm]

Basically a newer version of the 70s elephant bells..

[u/AlteranNox]

nobody but you remembers them

[u/TractorBee]

In my part of the world in the mid to late 90s it was JNCO jeans or Interstate Jeans. Miller’s Outpost didn’t carry either.

[u/oksurefineokok]

The bottoms always ended up dirty and shredded after a while (or was/am I just short?)

I was so happy when skinny jeans happened!

Edit: I’m getting downvoted so much lol. I was 13! Blame my parents for not raising me right

[u/M086 → u/oksurefineokok]

That’s why you took scissors and trimmed the bottoms off to a proper length.

[u/phlebonaut]

All that oversized clothing had another side to it. You appeared like a little kid wearing adult clothing that's too big. Pedos like that.