It's Swishy Pants Season - GQ |
- It's Swishy Pants Season - GQ
- These Kinetic Pants From Ministry of Supply Use Body Heat to Stay Smooth and Wrinkle Free - Futurism
- A ‘saggy pants’ violation led to a fatal police chase. A Louisiana lawmaker wants to repeal the law. - Washington Post
- Kourtney Kardashian Wore $38 Pants From ASOS—And They’re Still in Stock - Yahoo Lifestyle
| It's Swishy Pants Season - GQ Posted: 30 May 2019 10:19 AM PDT Not too long ago, men turned to one of two options for pants: skinny jeans with names like Petit Standard or slim-cut chinos that resembled a slightly cooler pair of old-school Dockers. (Both choices, naturally, were neatly pin-rolled with the precision of a professional cigar roller.) But flash forward to 2019, and pants have gotten both delightfully eccentric and extremely fashionable. There are wavy pleated trousers, luxurious warm-ups, and the rugged-but-fashionable work pants. However, the most surprisingly stylish pants in the mix are something else entirely. To explain, we need to use an extremely technical menswear term: welcome to the golden age of the swishy pant. The swishy pant can be a lot of things, but it is usually made of ripstop nylon or polyester, comes in a breezy, relaxed fit with a slight taper at the bottom, and features an elasticated waistband. (The nickname comes the swishy sound made by the ripstop fabric.) There are also sometimes side-zippers or elastic cuffs at the ankles, and another telltale sign is that the pant usually comes in outrageous colors or bold patterns. An excellent real-world example is this pair of pastel purple warm-ups made by Acne Studios. They've got it all: groovy color, shiny fabric, and slouchy fit. In fact, comedian and loud streetwear fanatic Pete Davidson found these exact pants so irresistible during a GQ photo shoot and that he wore them home with him from the photoshoot. (It's OK, Pete—looking at those pants, we don't blame you.) The style comes in a range of prices, too, from Stüssy's $100 "Drift" pant to a pair of $815 "Garbardin" trousers made by Prada. Browse through the recent collections of most brands, and you'll spot the swish: from big names like Stone Island and Moncler to smaller labels like Rhude and Kiko Kostadinov. The Swoosh makes swish, naturally. If you're looking for a pair in tangerine orange or banana yellow, you won't have to look far. Perhaps ones with exaggerated cargo pockets and an elongated drawstring? Here you go. This is all to say that designers have expanded the idea of the nylon track pant into something bolder and more extroverted, just the type of garment that fits right in with the big brazen sneakers and loud camp-collar shirts we spend our days in.   And there's no better time than now: spring weather and the swishy ripstop material are a perfect match for each other. Ripstop is a woven fabric made using a unique reinforcing technique so that it is resistant to tearing and ripping—all while remaining incredibly lightweight. That means it can stand up to wet weather and a stiff breeze, but it isn't so hot and dense that you'll be begging for shorts after a walk around the block. The spring season is when it's not warm enough to entirely run to linen trousers and shorts, but you certainly don't want to be walking around in flannel trousers or fleece sweatpants. In other words: it's swishy pants season. The rising popularity of the swishy pant among style-forward men means a few things. First, everyone is tired of skinny jeans—and rightfully so. Nylon pants are comfortable, offer a flattering fit on most men—and they're just a lot more fun to wear than slim-cut denim. Grabbing a pair lets you work some eccentric flair into your wardrobe without veering too far from the sun. The pant also pairs incredibly well with many of today's most popular sneaker styles: the taper highlights whatever shoes you're wearing, and the flowy silhouette is complementary to the bulked-up kicks most guys are wearing.  |
| These Kinetic Pants From Ministry of Supply Use Body Heat to Stay Smooth and Wrinkle Free - Futurism Posted: 01 Jun 2019 10:29 AM PDT Did you know what you wear doesn't just affect what people think of you, but also how you perform? According to research published in Nautilus, what you wear directly influences not only how you think but how well you execute tasks at hand. This is because there's a correlation between how you look and feel, and how well you can focus. With the Ministry of Supply Kinetic Collection, you'll finally have business attire that fits and feels perfect on your body. So you can get back to focusing on more important things.  Ministry of Supply wants you to never have to worry about how you look, which is why they focus on the comfort and wearability of their items. Their goal is to eliminate uncomfortable, high-maintenance dress clothes by re-imagining them altogether. To do this, they focused on engineering high-performance, comfortable, wrinkle-free apparel. The result is a dress pant like no other. Born at MIT, the brand takes a scientific approach to design by researching the body's needs. In doing so, Ministry of Supply has invented comfortable apparel like the Kinetic Dress Pant that has a one-of-a-kind fit, is sweat proof, and best of all, wrinkle-free.  Say goodbye to pricey trips to the dry cleaners and the time suck of ironing. Thanks to their specially developed Japanese Primeflex polyester, Ministry of Supply's Kinetic Dress Pants never wrinkle. Ever. This warp-knit fabric has the feel and structure of a woven material, but the breathability and stretch of a knit material. As a result, the Kinetic Dress Pants uses your body heat to naturally release and relax wrinkles within fifteen minutes of wear.  Ministry of Supply has reconfigured cutting edge fashion by rethinking the design of pants. They've focused on sharp, classic styles while sourcing materials that synchronize with the human body. This mixture of form meets function resulted in the perfect fit of the Kinetic Dress Pants. Each time you slip them on it's as though they were designed for your body. By using high-tech fabrics such as Japanese Primeflex polyester, their clothes provide the comfort and ease of athletic-wear while giving the appearance of business-appropriate attire.  Factors like fast fashion contribute to 14.3 million pounds of clothing being thrown away each year in the US. Ministry of Supply is working to reduce that number by creating durable garments like the Kinetic Dress Pant that will have a longer lifespan both physically and aesthetically. Additionally, they're committed to keeping their environmental footprint as small as possible. To accomplish this they've implemented techniques such as 3D Print-Knit. With it, Ministry of Supply is able to reduce cutting scrap waste by over 30 percent. If what you're looking for a high-tech solution to ending the uncomfortable feeling of being stuck in business-attire, look no further than the Kinetic Dress Pant from Ministry of Supply's Kinetic Collection. Futurism fans: To create this content, a non-editorial team worked with an affiliate partner. We may collect a small commission on items purchased through this page. This post does not necessarily reflect the views or the endorsement of the Futurism.com editorial staff.  |
| Posted: 30 May 2019 04:32 AM PDT  Two young men with low-slung, baggy jeans walk in Trenton, N.J., in 2007. Shreveport, La., was just one of numerous municipalities nationwide to pass a "saggy pants" ordinance in the mid-2000s, as the movement to ban the emerging fashion trend rippled across the country in conservative legislatures and towns. (Mel Evans/AP) Anthony Childs clung to his shorts as he ran past the police cruiser, holding them at his waist to keep them from falling down. The officer had spotted Childs walking along the sidewalk in Shreveport, La., on the afternoon of Feb. 5 and cut a sharp left turn at the next intersection to speed up next to him. Childs, the officer saw, appeared in violation of Shreveport's "saggy pants" ordinance, prohibiting wearing pants below the waist in public, punishable by a fine of up to $100 and up to eight hours of community service. Childs fled as the cruiser approached, ditching the sidewalk for a vacant field. The officer hopped the curb and gunned it through the grass, gliding to a stop as he caught up to Childs. "Hey! Hey!" the officer yelled, according to dash-cam footage of the incident. He could see now that Childs had a gun. "Put the gun down!" he yelled twice. The rest all happened in a matter of seconds. A succession of gunshots rang out. The officer fired eight shots, striking Childs three times as he lay on the ground. But the coroner later ruled that the bullet that killed Childs, 31, was the one he put into his own chest. It was the only shot he fired. Since then, Childs's death has roiled the city of Shreveport and strained police's already-fraught relationship with the black community. For weeks, residents have stormed city council meetings demanding answers to one unshakable question: How did a man's loose shorts lead to a fatal police encounter? To Councilwoman LeVette Fuller, Shreveport's so-called saggy pants ordinance — passed in 2007 and overwhelmingly enforced against black men — simply should have never existed in the first place. Now, she's moved to repeal it, a measure that was formally introduced at a city council meeting Tuesday. "The hardest thing for me is that we have the untimely death of someone in a police-involved shooting, knowing that his family is really hurting," Fuller said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The sagging pants ordinance is just so small and petty compared to the loss of life." Shreveport was just one of numerous municipalities nationwide to pass a "saggy pants" ordinance in the mid-2000s, as the movement to ban the emerging fashion trend rippled across the country in conservative legislatures and towns. Critics of these laws have long suspected racial bias may have motivated their rise, even as the exposed-underwear fad became popular among men of all races. But after Childs's death prompted Fuller to examine Shreveport's enforcement data, she didn't just find that the law was disproportionately enforced against African Americans. It was almost exclusively enforced against African Americans. Of the 726 people cited under Shreveport's "saggy pants" ordinance since 2007, 98 percent of them were black, according to city data provided to The Post. When it came to juveniles cited under the law, 100 percent were black, Fuller said. The recent findings ignited debate at Shreveport City Council about the necessity of a law regulating people's behavior that critics say serves no public safety purpose, while simultaneously creating a stark disproportionate impact on minorities — and in the worst-case scenario, Childs's death. The Shreveport Police Department did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening. Because the coroner found that Childs died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office declined to review the shooting for prosecution last month, leaving unanswered questions within the community over who shot first. The officer has claimed Childs did, the Shreveport Times reported. As tension boils over, and as the community expects action, Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins (D) said at a council meeting on Tuesday that repealing the ordinance would be the right place to start. "It is my opinion that while the ordinance was originally well-intentioned, it unfairly targets people of color," he said. "Just like many initiatives in the war on drugs that we now realize are discriminatory against people of color, we've evolved to reach that understanding. And this is in that vein." The rise of the saggy pants bans largely began in Louisiana, according to a 2009 article in the Brooklyn Law Review discussing the constitutionality of the laws. The fashion trend itself is believed to have originated in prisons, where inmates were issued ill-fitting clothes. It would eventually spill onto the streets of city neighborhoods, becoming more popular as it seeped into rap and hip-hop culture before finally reaching mainstream culture. Louisiana became the first state to propose a statewide ban in 2004, but after that failed, cities in Louisiana and beyond simply took up the cause themselves. By 2008, the bans and the revealing fashion had gained such traction that even Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator on the campaign trail for president, weighed in on the issue. Speaking on MTV, he said he found the laws to be a "waste of time." "Having said that," he said, "brothers should pull up their pants." In Shreveport, Fuller said, the idea behind the ordinance was to "employ respectability politics." But she takes a view more akin to Obama's opinion in 2008: Shaming young people for wearing saggy pants is fine. Punishing them is not. "They were trying to get kids to follow the straight and narrow, and to look like the model children they wanted them to look like," Fuller said of Shreveport's logic in 2007. "So you do that — but then you also say you'll get a citation that can also lead to a warrant, which can lead to jail time? Now what are they going to do? That's professional development for becoming a criminal." Shreveport's ordinance does not allow officers to arrest people solely for having saggy pants, but a failure to appear in court is what would trigger the warrant. What is not reflected in the data, Fuller said, is how often police have used the "saggy pants" law as a pretext for investigating a person a police officer finds suspicious, which Fuller said raised well-founded fears of racial profiling given Shreveport's data. At a tense community meeting organized by the NAACP on May 21, Shreveport Police Chief Benjamin Raymond identified Childs's low-hanging pants as the reason the officer chased Childs. Dozens of residents gathered to hear him explain, shouting their doubts from the crowd as Raymond, the coroner and district attorney presented what they said was the truth. When Raymond suggested that Childs could have been arrested if the officer thought it was necessary, the room erupted into indecipherable yelling. "At the point the officer saw a violation of the law — wearing pants below the waistline that is probable cause to stop an individual," Raymond began. "But that's profiling!" one man interjected. "And it's also probable cause to make an arrest, if so warranted," he said. "It doesn't mean the officer would have necessarily have arrested Mr. Childs for that offense." "It's not an arrestable offense!" another yelled. "Stop shaping it like that!" Childs's family said they were initially not told about what happened to Childs, why he was stopped or why he was shot, or whether he had done something threatening to the officer to arouse suspicion. But the more they learned from the coroner and district attorney's findings, the more questions they had. At a May 6 meeting, Childs's sister, Tyren Pucker, said she couldn't stop thinking about her brother lying on the ground as the officer continued to fire more shots at him, allegedly after Childs had already shot himself, the Shreveport Times reported. She asked: Was he a threat then? "I puzzle this on my mind over and over again," she said. More from Morning Mix: She shared heroin with a friend who fatally overdosed. She'll now spend 21 years in prison. Twitter is eroding your intelligence. Now there's data to prove it.  |
| Kourtney Kardashian Wore $38 Pants From ASOS—And They’re Still in Stock - Yahoo Lifestyle Posted: 31 May 2019 10:10 AM PDT  View photos Kourtney Kardashian is the latest member of the very famous family to show off a good fashion bargain: She wore a pair of on-sale pants from ASOS out to lunch. They might have access to all the fashion in the world, but we know the Kardashian-Jenners can't resist a good bargain when they find one. Kylie Jenner buys bikinis off of Amazon. Kendall Jenner wears H&M designer collaborations like the rest of us. And now we know: Kourtney Kardashian shops at ASOS. The eldest Kardashian sister was photographed out to lunch in L.A., wearing a pair of right-on-trend snakeskin-print pants with a brown bodysuit, mini Hermès Kelly bag, and clear heels.  View photos Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock According to InStyle, her bold bottoms were plucked from the men's section at ASOS—and they're on sale for a cool $38. Snakeskin began emerging as the It animal print last fall, both on the runway and in street style. It presented itself as an alternative to leopard spots, which, though timeless, are kind of everywhere. Soon enough, Rihanna was wearing it, Pinterest named it one of the biggest trends for 2019, and behold, the Kardashians gave it their sign of approval. The fact that you can get the same look, only heavily discounted, right now is just icing on the cake. If you're feeling inspired by Kourtney's affordable take on this year's most inescapable fashion item, you can still buy her exact pair of snakeskin pants from ASOS. Or you could shop the Kardashian-inspired trousers—all under $100—below, for something a teensy bit different but still on trend. Originally Appeared on Glamour  |
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