Flashback

Back in the day when I was first getting into fashion.......

My best friend (at the time) and I went to shows; by shows I mean, seeing local bands of all sorts, especially when they were free shows. This was the best time to scope out the local flavor that is San Diego indie fashion. We called it the "scenester" look. From further research, I have found that scenesters are most concerned with dress, which makes perfect sense. My first memory of a scenester show, where I went strictly to check out local fashion, was a show at a place called "Off the Record" (at the old location on 5th between University and Robinson) to see a band called "The Locust". A tiny record store crowded with countless scenesters, with some of the most interesting ways of dressing.

This is actually where I stumbled onto the skinny jeans. I first saw guys wearing them! Thank you gents for being the innovators! I saw one guy wearing them and he was wearing a belt backwards! That is my first memory of them. Of course my favorite band at the time (and pretty much these days) "The Strokes" they were infamous for wearing extremely tight jeans that came up to their ankles and flared out just a little, almost like a boot cut jean, so you could sport the Chuck Taylor high tops! You'd better believe I rocked this style all through the end of my junior year into my senior year.

With my attraction to the skinny jeans being worn by the metro male scenesters, I immediately went home, jumped on my mother's sewing machine and converted my pants and jeans to skinny! The first day I rocked them, I remember I wore my old black low top chucks, a wife-beater with a logoed t-shirt over it, and a green belt to cover the wife beater. Accompanied by a side ponytail, wayfarers, and a tackle box that I had decked out with paint, bottle caps and paper ornaments of Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Coincidentally, that was the day I met my Gay nemesis who became one of my besties at the time, but our common ground was we loved how the other one dressed! Nothing to base a friendship on....but that is not what this story is about....

(Origins of my love for Men's Fashion;)