Hello readers! Yes, the name may sound different but don’t be worried because it’s the same column and I’ll still be making fun of people’s fashion choices. Just in these “Flashback Trends,” I’ll be making fun of the fashion choices of people from past eons, or those who just have outdated taste.

If you have ever heard of JNCOs before than you know one of the major horrors of the 90s, and if you have not heard of JNCOs before then God bless your soul — prepare yourself for the horror that is coming up.

As stated above JNCOs were from the believed era of the 90s, otherwise known as DENIM and the time where no one knew how to dress. JNCOs are a disastrous style of jeans that are similar to the oh-so-hated bellbottoms here at Fashion Trend Fridays, but unlike its ridiculous hippie-flaunting cousin, JNCOs did not flare out into the gaping black hole of denim, but rather were straight-legged, meaning that they had pant legs which were able to fit a watermelon throughout the entire leg of the jean. The jeans also featured “artwork” on each pair, which in my opinion couldn’t have made it worse than what it already was –just don’t hold me on that.

As of the popularity aspect, the jeans started out popular among the groups of skater boys– which seems a little weird to me since I would think that the jeans would get in way of the skating– and eventually branched off into other groups such as the ravers and the hip-hop crews. Sales peaked in 1998 with $186.9 million dollars, but halved the following year, most likely because I was born and wouldn’t allow myself to peacefully live on a planet where JNCOs existed.

Unfortunately, JNCOs managed to make their way to celebrities and taint and soil every aspect about them. Pictured to the right is the boy band N*Sync, which you may know them now as “the band Justin Timberlake was in before he was solo,” or you may just now be learning about N*Sync and if that is one of you then you are truly tearing up my heart. I just cried a little because no one will understand the clever wordplay. Anyway, the photo  shows the band members wearing JNCO style jeans which is probably why they went bye bye bye. (If you didn’t get that one then we can’t be friends.)

You can tell the brand has fallen out of style since one of the only places to find it is in Sears. If you are shopping in Sears for clothes then you need to do some re-evaluating. It’s just one of the basic rules in life, you shouldn’t buy sushi from gas stations so you shouldn’t buy your clothes from a place that sells lawnmowers and washing machines.

Although I know that I am not the only person who thought that these jeans could have ruined an entire generation, I asked some fellow members of acceptable society about these jeans and I managed to pull some great statements.

After showing sophomore Lexie Fioto a few pictures of these 90s remnants, she replied with “Omg nooooo [sic] what are those?” and then followed up with “Those are atrocious haha.”

I then asked sophomore Starr McKenna about her stance on these fairy-killers and she responded with “I think I saw those in one of my mom’s old hippie pics of herself from her 20s… they should have stayed in that era.…”

I then asked about seven more people and only managed to obtain two responses since I asked them all at midnight, but one of those responses was from sophomore Kelly Anderson, who was the most respectful to these monstrous bottoms and stated, “I think that they are like denim sweatpants. They seem very warm and roomy. Some people like comfort better than fashion and these pants seem to depict that.”

And the final, and may I say most intelligent and well-put response, was from sophomore Leah Emmerich who wrote “OH GOD THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY POOPED THEYRE [sic] PANTS.”

Although you all may find these a laughing matter now, the worst possible thing has happened. JNCO announced that they will be putting their jeans back into production. They announced this on instagram using only hashtags on a picture depicting a man on a rooftop (which is where I would be too if I was a model who would eventually have to put on a pair of ogre trousers) not wearing the appalling jeans. Not the most professional approach to announcing something, they truly lost their demographic and are failing at trying to appeal to a new one, but what would you expect from the creators of denim jurassic park.

This is wear (it’s the wrong “where” but the pun is so worth it) the main question lies: Would you wear a pair of JNCOs? Would you actually think you look good in them? Does anyone look good in them? And most importantly, do you think that JNCOs can manage a revival?

(I already know the answer. No.