Dumb story but I started wearing "extra" baggy pants in fall of 1990, to be able to move legs better for skating. By extra, I mean... maybe 2-3 waist sizes too big. Everyone gave me shit for it but I didn't care. I usually got ye olde "Dewd it loox like u shit ur pance". Kept this up through 1991, but as I mentioned in other threads - I skated less in 1991 due to the hardcore band I was in becoming a priority (thus I didn't see Video Days until later).
Fast forward to 1992, I'm in a class with 3 of my old skate buddies and they are telling me we should skate again. Their pants are huge. I had no idea that the pants had gotten this way until then, and they showed me New Deal & Questionable videos. These guys were like waist 29 guys wearing waist 42 pants. Hella cool guys. Anyway, I maxed out at waist 34 at this time. I could not commit to bigger. I liked the creativity of this gear though. These guys would go to thrift stores - choose pants by waist size then cut off the bottoms. I did cut mine off, but waist 34. Also funny to me: I learned pressure flips and I was both satisfied and disgusted with myself at the same time. I was def. hyped on double flips though.
So my senior year (fall 93- summer 94), these guys had slimmed down to the standard baggy mid 90s gear. Like baggy but not out of control. The next generation of kids (that were in 9th grade at this time) definitely kept up the big pants that year. And my friend Ryan - it almost made him get even more baggy pants. Dude had pants so big that we got in them together to make our dudes laugh. He was rocking extra huge tees, huge pants, Pumas and tiny wheels AT LEAST through 1994. That was the last that I saw of it around here though. In hindsight, Ryan had told me that 1992 was his favorite era and I understand trying to hang onto something! All of my skate friends besides Ryan in 1994 had 7.5 blanks, Venture Lows, smallish wheels and Adidas Superstars. I was all about Alien Workshop though. I did a lot of acid and was convinced aliens were coming