Your 501s are an echo of Steve Job's wardrobe, "black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by Issey Miyake, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers", quoting his Wikipedia entry. Elizabeth Holmes was one follower of that style.
I can assure you that tight jeans came into being many years before cell phones, even if you date from the first demonstration version in 1973.
Fanny packs were in dubious style when I was in college in the early 1990s.
Much comedy was born of the "bathe wearing your jeans" and lying on the bed trying to get tight jeans over the thighs, especially during the late 80s. Then came leggings and lycra woven into jeans that now allow slipping tight jeans on without too much fuss.
"Today youths ... wear clothes which disconcert their elders, including tight jeans to emphasise a bulging crotch. They spend most of their time strumming on guitars or trendy-looking girls who look as though they’ve just crawled out from underneath a rolling stone. Secretly these girls will worry about tight jeans making a man impotent."
I was in High School in the late 1980s, so yeah we had some pretty narrow ankle pants for sure, but what's funny about today is the comical pairing of super tight up top too, along with a massive phone jammed into a front pocket that looks like you'd need crow bar to get it out. The obvious solution is a fanny pack, but the kids are trapped by circumstance because fanny packs are out. lol. Perfect Storm of fashion comedy.
You think kids now care don't use fanny packs because "someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style" back when you were in high school in the 1980s?
How amazingly influential this mysterious someone was, to influence things some 35 years later!
Certainly more then how the beatnik and hipster styles of the 1950s influenced your generation of HS students.
Since purses are another obvious solution, I place no faith in your interpretation.
That's because you haven't clarified what the "time-frame was that someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style right when tight jeans came into being".
I assume the "someone in Hollywood" refers to Yankovic's 2006 song "White & Nerdy", which characterizes the fanny pack as part "white and nerdy" fashion, indicating how it was no longer part of pop culture fashion by then. He lives in Hollywood Hills, I believe.
That was 18 years ago. It's amazing that Yankovic has that much influence on modern clothing styles.
You accused me of putting the time-frame for Fanny Packs back into the 1980s, but when you went back and read my post again you realized I didn't. lol. So now you're having to falsely claim my writing was unclear, because there's no other way to save face.
Your 501s are an echo of Steve Job's wardrobe, "black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by Issey Miyake, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers", quoting his Wikipedia entry. Elizabeth Holmes was one follower of that style.
I can assure you that tight jeans came into being many years before cell phones, even if you date from the first demonstration version in 1973.
Fanny packs were in dubious style when I was in college in the early 1990s.