Popular Styles in Recent Years

1950  trouser legs became thinner

In the 1950s, the era of rebellion, big stars in Hollywood such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, were all willing to wear jeans. And that made jeans a kind of popularity that a majority of teens loved to chase.

  

Bell-bottoms

In the 1960s, the period of relaxation and fashion, hippie became popular in America. These cynical guys added more rebellious spirit into jeans and made it reflect their own unique characteristics.  Loose clothes were regarded as freedom and random. As for jeans, bell-bottoms came into fashion.

Denim overalls

In the 1970s, the Americans became more open than ever before. Jeans were universally accepted. Not only teenagers, even President Carter wore jeans very often. There was no prejudice against rank anymore.

Bleached jeans

There came a hot wind of yesterday-style. In order to make it seem retro, people bleached the jeans on purpose. Actually, jeans become white naturally because of long time friction. 

Jeans with holes

In the 1980s, economic prosperity and active thoughts had well developed. The Americans could no longer be satisfied with the beauty or casualness, they tried to make something unique. The new symbols of fashion were torn-offs, gaps, broken holes and rough selvedges. This new style can be considered as an extension of the bleached jeans which is more damaged because of friction. Of course, the holes are also artificial.  

Skinny jeans

After realizing that too much heat is contained in their food, which makes a high level of people over-weight in the nation, the American pay more attention to keep a balanced diet. So nowadays you can see more and more American girls get their charming statures back. They cannot ignore the good time to show their hot figures so that skinny jeans become popular again.