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Don’t hate me if I’m pleased skinny jeans are back

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There aren’t many things I’m ashamed to say out loud. Body insecurities, financial concerns, embarrassing dating stories... all are fair game as far as I’m concerned, hence why you’ll often find me writing about them for this very publication. But one thing I am truly terrified to admit? Skinny jeans are back – and I’m delighted.

To most people, not just those working in , this is one of the worst sartorial sins anyone can commit. Unflattering, too tight, and generally deemed deeply uncool, skinny jeans are not so much an item of as they are a cipher for a from catalogues and earnestly uses the word “trendy”. The type of person and thinks wearing band T-shirts makes them look younger. The type of person who, as ’s terrifying fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly would put it, has “no style or sense of fashion”.

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