This was done mainly due to the grunge era..popularized 1st by Kurt Cobain's Nirvana. He made it to where (even in this day in highschool kids clothing) poor kids could get away wearing their dads beat up hole ridden levi's. The bigger the jeans the better. All you needed was some cool sweater or mini tee to accompany it and some vans and you were in!

baggy jeans r da bomb lol

Baggy pants are so cool theese days!!! specially with gangstas!!!

gotta luv dem dudes rockin dem pants!!! So gangsta!

kurt cobain? ROFL are u on crack? first of all the first grunge bands actually came out in the late 80s.. first grunge band: screaming trees. getchur facts straight. lmao i dont even like grunge and i know this..

Baggy jeans actually came about from Amerian prisoners who had their belts took from them to prevent suicide. I have been rocking baggy trousers all my life and will continue to do so!

oh WHY can't pants still be like this? And baggy carpenter pants were the best!

People are starting to wear the skinny pants now, ugh they're so tacky. I need time warp pls.

jnco's baby.

aggy jeans are SO FRIKING UGLY AND GHETTO!!! skinny jeans are whats in style all people that dont wear skinny jeans are either gangster or stuck in the past not even grunge because all the skaters/rocker wear skinny jeans w/flats, converse, rainbows, vans, retro nikes,and keds.wanna be grunge? go to hottopic.com...baggy jeans SUCK!!!

I loved baggy jeans jnco,buggirl,kikwear,ufo. just like timmy said.good I hate the styles today they will set you way back and it doesnt look good on everyone

ok the baggy pant did come from prisons but and they did take their belts to prevent the prisoners from killin themselves. but the really didnt need the belts bc they gave them clothes that fit, but the baggy pant came from the prisoners that were available for sex from their other prison mates.....maybe that changes your point of view on how cool they are.....now that you kno where they came from.....

The first Grunge band was the Melvins. Formed 1981, on SUBterranean Pop records, only to become Sub-Pop.

PS- The Rave scene really kicked off the baggy stuff. We had "Phat Clown" pants back in '90-'92. Other brands were FreshJive and Sjobeck. These were SO BAGGY! I mean they were able to fit 2 people in them.

Paige go jump off a building only werid people wear skinny jeans and boys who wear them are gat... baggy pants are what it do okay so u wake up!!!!

All I wear

WHO CAN TELL ME WHERE TO FIND OUT JUST WHERE THE BAGGY PANTS AROUND THE BUTT CAME FROM I HEARD IT STARTED IN PRISON MEANING YOU HAD A BOYFRIEND. WHO CAN HELP ME FIND THIS OUT?

The people writing about how great skinny jeans are were obviously born in the 90's. If you were alive before that you would remeber how horribly uncomfortable jeans were when there was only one fit.

i remember when my older sister used to wear baggy clothes! guys at school still wear them like that....

I remember I used to have a pair of KikGirl jeans. They were my absolute favorite. Too bad my mom threw them away :'(

I was big on the Kikwear and JNCO jeans back in the day. Also, I remember in the third grade, my grandmother got me a pair of Lee Pipes!

karen i think it was wearing your jeans low started in prison for anal sex because for easy access or something because a lot of people turn gay there lol and BAGGY JEANS ARE BACK theyre called boyfriend jeans now the 90's are back

I remember in high school people were considered to be really square if they wore tight jeans. I'm waiting for baggy jeans to come back in style for girls...they were really comfortable.

I fell that the fashion game has took clothing back to the 1980's. I could not stand those nut-choker pants at all, the only thing I like'd in the 80's was Lacoste, and dats it. And it's like they brought back the 80's but in the greenest way, me personally, I'm Jamaican who lived in Rochester, NY most of my childhood and in the 90's I lived in Miami, FL & Norfolk, VA and I like'd baggy jeans better and custom tailored Italian suits. And the whole style of baggy jeans had the airbrushed graffiti on da fit and have patent leather on both regular & leather baggy jeans and it was great style. I believed that in the early 2000's have combined all the styles at once, and I'm only 32 and I think fashion needs to have every style that suits the consumer.

i like turtles

Exhaust Jeans started it all in 92' ... baggy jeans were the shiznit... dont ever forget, the best style to ever come out!!!

Not much of a fan of baggy or skinny. Just plain straight leg jeans never go in or out of style. Had tons of JNCOs, purchased at Gadzooks. By 1997, we had them so baggy they literally covered your entire shoe, as if you were floating. We called those hover pants. I had some that were 24" around at the bottom of the leg. Redonkulous.

baggy pants are cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

baggy pants are so sick.i still wear baggy pants. skinny pants are too uncomfortable for me, i need room down there,......you know,for my schlong.

Baggy jeans and the previous "tiny tee", awe....I remember silverTabs being huge!

I like bananas

I was born in the 90s and I can't stand skinny jeans! They look so bad. I adore baggy jeans, it started when I was 7 and I saw this gothic-looking girl with big baggy trousers on and I thought she was beautiful! I pestered my parents to buy me some and I have never looked back =D

Kurt didn't even start the baggy jeans trend on purpose. He was very thin and he would always wear tons of layers of clothes, baggy jeans probably just helped hide how thin he really was.

baggy IS ghetto people they make the body look unproportional drag on the ground, rip, and collect dirt not to mention a lot of people who swore by their baggys are now biting once again and switching to skinnies all that "theyre too tight" talk is BS from people whom follow the crowd and have never bothered being uniue with their style

I absolutely adore baggy jeans! Maybe it's because skinny jeans look horrible on me, but anyways. ;)

CROSSED COLORS Jeans - Bring em back!!!

Not my favorite look. I'm little and they make me look like I'm drowning in them. If you are stocky, skinny jeans look terrible.

I used to rock baggy jeans for a long time, now going to skinny. Makes me look clean and the chicks dig it. I was never really into baggy jeans, I was just doing it to fit in a look tough. It's starting to get old and they annoy me now. I think I found my style :) really love 'em skinny jeans. Looks clean, especially with low tops. Now I don't have to worry if my shirts shrink a little because I will also look clean. C'mon guys, it's time for skinny jeans 2010-2015+

screw skinny jeans, they look pretentious and incredibly uncomfortable. This skinny trend is disgusting, and only seems to encourage this unhealthy anorexic craze. To me, women wearing baggy clothes in the 90s seemed far more confident and in control of their sexuality, unlike the sex objects they have been turned into now.

I still wear baggy jeans. Well, to be honest it depends on what one considers "baggy." tight fit jeans have never looked good on anyone except models and those who were blessed with good genetics in the leg department.

Always reppin the baggy jeans why wouldnt you be able to love them theyre so comfy and are just badass, try to climb a fence or something in skinny jeans thats not cool you cant even really move your legs, i hate when i see people wearing them.. Damn i really miss the 90s, Anyone else feelin me??

I really miss the days when it was in style for girls to wear baggy jeans. They were cool, and they were comfortable! I hate that women are now required to wear those awful skinny jeans to be in style. Yuck.

Baggy jeans are so comfortable. I have worn them since the 90s, and will continue to do so! It sucks that they are hard to find these days. Skinny jeans look gay on men. Why in the hell would a man want to wear jeans that show the exact shape of his legs? What is up with all the dumb "low-rise" tight jeans, tight shirts, and flip flops? The prep look makes people like me want to kick your weak little ass. Why would a woman want to wear tight jeans either unless she is desperately trying to be noticed by a man? It is not cool...it is absolutley stupid looking, and must be terribly uncomfortable...especially on men!! If you are a woman and love tight jeans, men will pay more attention to the shape of your body rather than the integrity of your character. And if only you people realized how ridiculous tight jeans are! If you want to be comfortable and really don't give a crap what people think, go baggy! Maybe grow your hair out to, and forget the gay, preppy "messy look." The skater, gothic, & Hip Hop look of the 90s (without wearing the pants below the waist) was truly a great style, and hopefully JNCO will re-emerge and start making new baggy styles once again. (I will say that pant cuffs larger than 32 inches gets a little on the crazy side though...but still cool.) What happened to JNCO anyway? I'm glad I can still buy Kikwear. Also, music from the 90s was much cooler, had more depth to it, and a much more unique sound than what we have these days...

Baggy Jeans are officially dead here where I live. Finally those damn wannabe gangsters are gone. Here's a little tip ;) Get Super Skinny Jeans Levi's 510 2% spandex They are a lot comfortable than baggy jeans. Those stupid jeans drag on your feet all day and make you look fat.

Person before me is not very bright. "gangsters" weren't te only group of wearing baggy jeans but the grunge era and metal heads. My brother wasn't a gangster but he did wear jenco/jenko jeans. And this isn't about what's in today.

Back then baggy jeans weren't necessarily seen as 'ghetto' I mean my white girlfriends wore baggy jeans more than they'd wear dresses to look... (funny as it sounds) 'sexier'. Even in primary school as you headed towards age 10 and over you kinda dropped the baby doll dresses and headed for like a 'Pink (singer)' look, like a tight t-shirt with baggy jeans (or cargo pants lol). Well that's what I noticed with the then teen fashion. Man when I was ten I had a friend who was so obsessed with Pink the singer that she even cut off all her hair and dressed like her. It was cool though everyone in my class thought she looked awesome. Nowadays if you do that at age ten you're just looked at weird. Heading towards the late 90's early 2000's I think girls made baggy jeans look to suit them more. I remember me and my friends trying to look like the back-up dancers of Limp Bizkit's 'Rollin' music video with the long hair and backward cap and halfway singlet with baggy azzz jeans. The baggier the sexier. Nowadays its the thinner the better (skinny jeans). Don't like that concept so much. Btw love this site brings back so much memories!

i still to ths day only get baggy carenter jeans

i think tommy hilfiger carpenter jeans r the best, thats all i wear