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Leather trousers: A brief history + 17 things you should toss from your closet

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Leather Trousers: A Brief History Of Fashion's Most Rock 'n' Roll Staple
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/551219...users.html

EXCERPT: The leather trouser has been bamboozling mankind for decades. [...] So, what’s the eternal appeal? Are we gluttons for punishment? Maybe, deep down, we’d all like to be The Doors’ Jim Morrison* (*possibly the only musician who has ever managed to pull off leather trousers with buckets of sweaty sex appeal) [...]

The iconic leather look didn’t kick off in the 1960s with godlike Jim M, however. [...] apparently leather trousers go way back to the Native Americans. [...] When the European settlers arrived, leather trousers were adopted in the late nineteenth century – which brings us to leather chaps and the cowboy fashions we’re all familiar with. [...]

The so-called 'Greasers' of the 1950s (named after their greased-back pomade hair) were also big fans of leather. [...]

By 1961, a rowdy bunch of Liverpudlians embraced head-to-toe leather-dressing in sweaty Hamburg nightclubs [...]

In 1968, Elvis was in freefall. Beatlemania had radically altered the musical landscape [...] The 33-year-old did what many men have attempted when existentially lost: he put on a pair of leather pants. Unlike most men, however, Elvis could pull it off.

But what about the women, we hear you cry? [...] Suzi Quatro would later embrace his leather look with a 70s attitude that spread like wildfire. Joan Jett, Pretenders' frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Marianne Faithful soon followed. [...]

As the 1980s landed and civil unrest intensified, punk fashion became even more politicised and New Romanticism brought leather into the mainstream. Selling fetish and bondage wear [...]

As the 1990s approached, the leather trouser look became a mainstream staple. These days they often turn up on the red carpet when you least expect them....



17 Things Your Should Toss From Your Closet, Stat
http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/dre...-of-closet

EXCERPT: As busy, fashion loving ladies, we're all occasionally guilty of amassing a huge pile of clothes on the floor or stuffed into a drawer. Hey, it happens to the best of us. But as you well know, a clear closet is a clear mind (not to mention, that de-cluttering one's closet makes it way easier to find what you need in the morning and get out the door way more quickly). Part of the problem is the accumulation of junk: the stuff you should be tossing but haven't because you're too busy or a touch sentimental. We're here to help with a loving, we're-all-in-this-together mentality, fresh with a handy list of things you can toss (or re-sell or donate) right now. Print it out and get busy this weekend and we guarantee that getting dressed on Monday morning will be that much easier....




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