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Skateboarding => Shoes & Gear => Topic started by: lurker_and_poster on October 07, 2024, 04:59:45 PM
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Some of you may remember early 90s blind selling
there first baggy jeans. Can someone help me to track
down first publication / release date?
Something 1990-1992ish. But can’t find any og advertising/ pictures as proof.
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Thrasher archives have every issue.
https://www.thrashermagazine.com/magazine/covers-archive/
Start digging.
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I want to say they came out in the Spring of 92 before Questionable. I remember that the only "baggy" jeans, owned by a skate company, you could get before Blind were T-Bags and FUCT. I don't remember there ever being a magazine ad for them but it seems like I do remember there being World catalogs with them.
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yeah, i had fuct, blind then plan-b. that’s the order i remember them coming out also.
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Always wanted the Blind jeans back then. My friend imported T Bags and he was the king for a while till I got my plan bs. I could fit both my legs in one pant leg. Fucked in the head stuff, loved em.
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agree, Fuct was first, then the floodgates opened but the bLind jeans kinda stood the test of time. I distinctly still wearing bLind jeans in 1995 because they weren't as ridiculous as some of the bigger jeans put out by Tbags or New Deal (which I was all about 2 years earlier).
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The first baggy skate brand jeans I recall seeing were New Deal Big Deal jeans. I was completely obsessed with Blind jeans. The back pockets had such a distinctive look and the embroidery was perfect. I had a bunch of pairs, mostly from trades with friends. I saw tons of cool colors. I had Fuct pants too. Plan B jeans in the early 90s seemed to be cut from the same template as the Blind jeans. The first pair of skate jeans I owned were size 38 New School Eight Ball jeans. They were HUGE. Always was curious about the behind the scenes stories and history of those early 90s jeans. At one time you were the shit if all your gear was skate branded.
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@radcunt i was kinda bummed on how much bigger the plan-b’s were than others. pretty sure i did both legs in one on them also.
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I want to say they came out in the Spring of 92 before Questionable. I remember that the only "baggy" jeans, owned by a skate company, you could get before Blind were T-Bags and FUCT. I don't remember there ever being a magazine ad for them but it seems like I do remember there being World catalogs with them.
This is also my memory - but I need a proof - picture / video part someone wearing a Blind, T-Bags, Fuct New Deal pants
in 91/92
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I want to say they came out in the Spring of 92 before Questionable. I remember that the only "baggy" jeans, owned by a skate company, you could get before Blind were T-Bags and FUCT. I don't remember there ever being a magazine ad for them but it seems like I do remember there being World catalogs with them.
This is also my memory - but I need a proof - picture / video part someone wearing a Blind, T-Bags, Fuct New Deal pants
in 91/92
It was 92. Things were still “normal” in 1991.
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@radcunt i was kinda bummed on how much bigger the plan-b’s were than others. pretty sure i did both legs in one on them also.
I was all about em. Wore em to shreds. Then Would buy big guy cords and belt them on.
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The 1992 Pigbait catalog looks like the first ad for Blind jeans, also has FUCT and Plan B baggy gear
http://101skate.com/?page_id=235
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Also check the 1992 Thrasher with Jovontae Turner cover, I think its September issue. The article titled "Love in Haight Street", fun stuff
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I started my journey with baggy green T Bags but then graduated to ridicolously baggy beige Droors. The only dude with baggier pants was my homey with bordeaux Westbeach jeans that were so large his bloard would frequently disappear in a trouser leg when he botched a heelflip. Afterwards, things mellowed out and by 95 I was on some Dickies (a size or two too big).
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My first "skate" brand jeans/shorts were Blind shorts in hunter green. I wore them in the summer, winter, whatever. Then I got some brown Big Deals jeans in a 44-inch waist and I was 120-ish pounds (cringe). Some girls told me I looked like a flying squirrel when I skated. I later got some light blue FUCT shorts. By the end of that school year, I got some light denim-colored Blind jeans and later some light denim-colored Plan B jeans. The Plan B jeans were a rip-off of Girbaud jeans. They had that little label going across the zipper. Looking back, those pants/shorts were expensive in 1992 dollars. My parents weren't well-off, so $60 jeans was a hard sell. Also, I only got $60 skate shoes two or three times a year. I had a part-time job, so that helped. I think the next school year (1993), I was over "skate" jeans and all I wore was GAP jeans. Anyways, long rant. Sorry. I like looking back on those days.
TLDR: Old man rambling about his expensive, ridiculous skate jeans.