10 Facts About Skinny jeans

Slim-fit pants or skinny jeans are tight trousers that have a snug fit through the legs and end in a small leg opening that can be anywhere from 9" to 20" in circumference, depending on size.

Tapered Skinny jeans became most notable with country music stars and with the birth of rock and roll in the 1950s, when Elvis Presley donned slim-fitting Skinny jeans and shocked the country.

Slim fitting pants and Skinny jeans were worn not just by members of the teenage Mod or greaser subculture but ordinary people.

Skin-tight acid-washed Skinny jeans were popular in the 1980s with most heavy metal bands, and in particular those in the thrash metal scene, such as Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer.

Tight fitting Skinny jeans were worn by pop stars like Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury.

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The 1980s saw the revival of "stretch Skinny jeans, " pioneered and popularized in the United States by Steven Kohn and Sal Parasuco.

Tight Skinny jeans were worn by members of the casual subculture from the late 80s until the mid 90s, including Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting.

Flared Skinny jeans made a comeback from the mid-1990s onward, furthering the move away from the drainpipe styles.

Men's skinny jeans were introduced in 2008 and became the norm by 2009.

Study in 2015 documented the case of skinny jeans causing rhabdomyolysis, bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies.