I held onto my JNCO Crime Scenes for years lol. No idea why as they were a 29 inch waist and 50 inch bottom but man I loved them. My high school janitor would always give me shit when I wore them asking if i was trying to take his job of sweeping the floors.
My husband received a few boxes of things from his parents after cleaning out their storage unit a few years back. An old pair of JNCO Jeans was inside and he was so stoked...until he tried them on and realized his fourteen-year-old self wasn’t the same size as his current self. Guess who does fit em? I am now the proud owner of my very own, mint condition, authentic JNCO jeans. 🤘😆🤘
Yep. The first time I ever got drunk was in the summer before 9th grade with a bottle of mud slide that my friend slipped seamlessly into his JNCOs. Memories
You put a 40 oz and a carton of cigarettes in the back pocket and someone could stand behind you and toss stuff in the general direction and not miss those pockets.
I was a skater in the late 90's. I was hitting the ramps at the park on the other side of town almost every weekend. What we liked about JNCOs is that we could wear pads *under* the jeans very easily. I didn't go super-wide like the pants shown in this video, but wide enough so that it wasn't too tight for the pads. Another thing is that with the wider openings, it covered the skates and looked really cool, as if you were just floating on the ramps.
I'm with you dude I started skating in the 90s and jncos made it Almost impossible for me to learn hard flips my board always caught my pants leg I had to get a smaller leg size and I was good lol.
Randy Magnum funny, I remembered being at Busch gardens and seeing this dude with some black Jnco's, a Disturbed shirt, and a goatee, and thinking to myself that he nailed the look.
yo same kinda story but i was in a feild trip with my class to a music meuseum, PERFECT PLACE! and i saw some kid with some cool black jnco jeans, the ones ive always wanted, and i was like "HEY DUDE NICE JNCO JEANS, and he said "aw thanks man, i had to save up for these" and tbh... he really was diggin' the look, i said to him i really wanted some... but anyways i hope i get them soon... im a teen with parents who limit money on things so-
I grew up in the 90's, and also didn't get into fads, I bought my school clothes at the thrift store so I could spend the rest of the money on beer and weed.
I worked for JNCO (we all said it like "jaynko") just toward the end of its fat leg heyday in the late 90s. You forgot to mention RAVERS as a major target demographic! A lot of those embroidered patch designs were made with the fun of candy ravers in mind! The huge pockets were perfect for jamming water bottles and all your other shit in them so you could be free to dance at events! Kikwear was our biggest rival, back then, though they eventually won out for designing jeans that were more minimalist in style AND - the most important part - a lot lighter! Do you remember how thick and heavy the big baggy JNCO jeans used to be? Especially with all those pockets and the thick embroidered patches? The biggest pair I ever wore were Mammoths, and I loved them back then! :D They did also make more subtle jeans back then, btw, which were featured in the Melrose boutique. Fitted track suits and butt and waist hugging jeans that started to widen at about mid-thigh for the ladies. There was plenty of more normal stuff they made, but it's the big raver jeans everyone remembers, of course! BTW, aren't fat pants seeing a resurgence in the US now? They've been all the rage here for about 2 years in Japan. I laugh my ass off every time I see Japanese girls walking around with huge, fat legged pants - because they're totally socially acceptable now! XD Most of these gals were probably in diapers when this style was a big fad back in the late 90s!
Never had anything from JNCO myself (maybe they never crossed the border into Canada) but I was a raver and that style was very popular for the reasons you mentioned. Lots of room for water bottles, candy, glowsticks, etc. After the style died, cargo pants became popular with ravers for a while. Still lots of room for stuff but much lighter than the fat jeans.
I am in a bunch of the photos from this video and wear kikwear/jnco/gat/illig/auraze/macgear/menace/etc. still today. It is heavily embedded in underground rave culture still hahaha. I think the main thing that had kikwear outlast was their ability to be cheap but play it off as an intentional thing. Putting the same tags on different pants, reusing designs, thinner fabrics, etc. etc. They were mostly cheap in manufacturing but were able to pass the savings on to their customers. It is DEFINITELY big within the japan fashion and techno cultures there as well though, but not a lot of local companies producing it. Any companies that do it now are unfortunately just doing it out of throwback effect vs. passion in my opinion
Here in Us, I would say just a nice loose/baggy bootcut, I was from the days Grunge was king here, and to this day I still wear clothes for comfort over asthetics.
Menace was also a competitor but not as prevalent as Kikwear. Especially when considering the ravers. Menace was actually closer to JNCO because they offered normal sizes unlike Kikwear. Both could be found at Hot Topic. Menace could be found alongside JNCO at Bobs. From what I remember Kik was always massive legs while JNCO and Menace offered a range. And both had fun illustrations on the pockets
I just remember the bigger the jeans the cooler you were. It was almost like a contest of who could get the biggest jeans. I had a friend who i swear could comfortably fit a full grown adult in each pant leg
I'm not wearing pants right now, but....JNCOs are the most comfortable and durable jeans ever made. I still have three pairs hanging up in my closet. Pants you can actually access the pockets while sitting. These were great. Screw all these ball strangling new styles.
Silly bands, I used to run around school trash cans and collect all the broken silly bands melt the two ends together and resell em. I made so much cash im using the computer i bought with the funds 5 years later. XD
Nathan C. I used to run around school trash cans to eat... specifically the ice cold milks and unwrapped cheeseburgers that were in the bin, slices of pizza fries bags of chips etcetera that wasteful entitled Millennials didn't care for. I would even find money sometimes in the trash and the custodians did the same thing. the most blatant was a girl on her phone in the line just buying a full tray of food nonchalantly tossing it in the trash can right after buying it and strutting out.
its weird that this brand is so emblematic of the style, because a lot of brands did styles like this. they were hugely popular in raves and the goth scene. the thing is, I don't see much of an "underground" or "counterculture" scene, anymore. do doubt there are still goth and metal bands, but I never see any angry, rebellious fashions. Hot Topic is full of mainstream nerd stuff like Marvel and Big Bang Theory. if JNCO is going to revive the style, we need to give the kids a reason to rebel in a way that isn't just trolling on 4chan.
kenneth wallace I don't know, but in my area it seems to be like everyone's Fashions choices are still from the mid-late 2000s. And the rebellious ones are pulling a hybrid between sporty and gothic because it's raining almost everyday here.
Kenneth, I was wondering what the latest rebellious fashion trend was for teens. Growing up we had grunge, goth and emo. Then hipster came in and all of that seemed to die down. Maybe it's "nerdy empowerment rebellion"?
Actually if you look at certain rappers it is kind of like they had a baby with emo , and that is sort of where I feel things have gone/ are going . Some kind of hip hop ,rock combo style. I just haven't heard a real name for it yet that has been popularized.
I was a teenager in the the late 90’s and never considered clothing myself in these jeans. Now that sweater that girl was wearing at 8:54 I would have most definitely worn that.
There was this morbidly obese girl at my school who wore a denim dress (yes, a real one, not 60" JNCO jeans) every single day. I think it was because she wanted fit in with her friends who all wore JNCO jeans but they didn't make any in her size.
Same, I was in middle school when these were popular. I think I wore them once when I was trying to “fit” in, but I felt so awkward in them. Never wore them again.
I hate the slim fit era. I was 12 and wore these in 1998-2001. I didn't care who else wore them. I liked baggy clothes. I still do. Who the hell wants to look at men in tight clothes?
The 90s and early 2000s baggy jeans are currently trending atm. A pair of Jnco cost around $200+ I sell vintage streetwear and grew up seeing all the brands from the 90s until today. So brands like Stussy, Anchor Blue, Phat Farm, Ecko, Akademiks, The Hundreds and so on are what the younger generation are wearing. The skinny jeans era went out probably around 2019-2020 and now it's vintage Starter jackets, Harley Davidson, Y2k Skull designs and rock band tees
im 14 and jnco has def made a comeback now, i have 7 pairs and everyone loves them, jncos are def the best thing I’ve ever bought. jncos js need to lower the prices a bit but im glad jnco is coming back!
My best friend in high school wore these, and I mocked him daily for it. Had to ban him from my house in the winter because he would drag in 20lbs of water, salt, and gravel with these stupid things.
I doubt JNCO was sold in Europe or at least in my country. We had Homeboy and No Fear instead and they were pretty huge. Holy heck, that takes me back.
altrogeruvah I definitely remember no fear, and don't remember the name jnco. But I don't think baggy jeans had one major brand attached to them in Europe.
No Fear was big in Europe...wow never knew that. No Fear was a motocross kids dream gear at one point and even some skaters, bikers...anyone athletic on a self propelled vehicle lol....
I still have several pairs of jncos in my closet from 20 years ago. I can't believe I was so obsessed with a pair of jeans in middle school. Another fad from middle school(98) was laser pointers. For a couple years everywhere in and out of school, you'd see red dots everywhere. It got to the point where my school would expel you for having one cause "it could cause eye damage."
Literally just talked about the laser pointer thing yesterday with my wife and friend. They'd take those away for good if you had them at school. Those and yo-yos when they made a comeback in the mid 90's.
Fun fashion fact: the better the economy, the more fabric is used in garments. In the 1900s, dresses were big and poofy, then came the Great Depression and shorter, tighter flapper dresses were in style. By the 1940s, the economy had improved, and voluminous zoot suits were fashionable for men. The same is true of the 1990s, there was an economic boom, and clothing got bigger, like these crazy pants! (I was in high school at this time, but this style was really only popular with a certain demographic, they weren't the "in" style for everyone to wear to fit in.)
Ah JNCO, I remember wearing these in High School. I might still have a pair floating around my house somewhere. I don't care how uncool they are now, or how cool they were then; JNCO made the most comfortable jeans ever! It was really the only reason I wore them, it had nothing to do with fashion, they were just damn comfortable. I really never got how skinny jeans became so popular, they are the antithesis to comfort, especially for guys lol.
You know, this video actually makes me kind of want a pair of JNCO Jeans. Not because of the crazy cuff lengths, but for those pockets! You know how women complain about how men's jeans have bigger pockets, and men complain about how the social acceptibility of using a purse, which is great for holding most things? Well those JNCO pockets look like I could buy a purse, safely hide it in my pants, and still have lots of extra room to store any other things I would want to carry with me. Those pockets look like you could carry small dogs in them the way women do their purses, heck maybe you could carry one medium sized dog in a single pocket. Methinks there's an untapped market for jeans with comically large pockets sans parachute cuffs.
Middle class cis white male I also think there's an untapped market for pockets in bras and shoes. Club girls hardly wear any clothes, and don't want to pay coat check. But if they had pockets in their shoes and bras for their I.D and makeup etc....
I never used a purse until I stopped wearing JNCOs. :( There are bra pockets out there as well as these tight waistbands you can wear underneath a shirt that will hold stuff...it's like a very thin fanny pack.
Those jeans were great. I loved them. They were just so comfortable and roomy. Now I never wore the huge legged pants but the huge pockets with a chain wallet were where it was at.
I wore the 50" jeans in the mid 90's. They were great to go stealing with. One time, I got 12 spray cans into the pants and walk away. They were big in RAVE culture. I first saw them at raves in Los Angeles in the early 90s, and that style was huge with ravers til the early 2000s.
DJ AUDIO1 I had a pair of semi baggy jeans, with huge pockets on the shin sections. You could just drop stuff right in there on the go and know one could tell.
Our school didn't ban them until the fashion became wearing a giant wallet chain with them. That lasted a few months. And the presented timeline fits, these were totally uncool by the time I graduated HS in 2002. #ClassOf9-11 :(
My school never banned the jeans, just the chains. The fashion might have lost mainstream appeal, but it still existed and changed within certain groups. They were popular with ravers in the early 2000s and some goth-like/alternative types with Tripp jeans. I wore both JNCO and Tripp jeans back in the day. By the mid-2000s they were completely dead in public. I wasn't a raver so I don't know when they died out in that scene or if they even completely died out in that scene since pretty much anything goes.
Same here with the chains. I remember the principal announcing on the PA system that, if caught with one, they'll either confiscate it, make you change into your gym shorts or simply send you home. They never really cared about the ridiculous width on the legs. As for myself, I was never into the fad. I wore regular trousers or something equivalent. It was mostly the rebellious types that sported the JNCO/Tripp jeans.
To revive a style, you have to appeal to an image people strive to achieve. Being as only Cyber Goths really wear JNCO now a days, it would be hard to remove from that established idea, and relate it to people with common style sensibilities.
Robert Morgan Robert Morgan hahaha I hope so! But they also seem to congregate under bridges for neon dance parties: th-cam.com/video/jltKnDlH_OA/w-d-xo.html
I'm into it tho, it would fit into the thrifting and vintage scene really well since 80s and 90s are the main course. It would be cool to own a very wide pair.
I'm not a cyber goth and I totally rock JNCO jeans, I don't paint my nails, I don't wear lipstick and I don't have any social media and TH-cam is the only part of the internet I really go to other than jncojeans.com I just dig the image and what JNCO represent
Here's a request/video idea: What ever happened to FUBU? The clothing. They went from $100k in 1992, to $350 million in sales in 1998, then gone in 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBU
+Robert Morgan You should watch the show Shark Tank on ABC. The founder of FUBU, Daymond John, is one of the regulars on the show. FUBU might no longer be popular, but Daymond John is still very active in the fashion industry. He just owns different brands now.
Seán Patrick Eckmann of course they wouldn’t, because most of the people who wore JNCO were white people. The baggy pants the Latino Community wore were banned and those were sold at Miller’s outpost. They were a different brand too, particularly Dickies. I’m Latino and live in heavy Latino population.
chicks got banned from capris due to showing skin but theyd let the boys sag and show their ugly ass patterened boxers. lol pretty sure neither gender was trying to attract the other with those trends but thats the reason they stated werent capris and sagging pants more a social thing among your own gender? like the least sexual thing ever lol
in addition to Tripp pants with leather straps and bondage chains which could be considered weapons they were a safety hazard. just going down the staircase as the oversized legs caused tripping.
gunter smith Wtf are you going on about? When the fuck did I say “fuck white people”? I was being a realist here and telling the OP why they didn’t ban JNCO jeans. Sit the fuck down and shut up little boy when the adults are talking.
I remember Tripp pants, used to hang out with the freak/goth crowd in high school, and a lot of people I knew wore them. I never got why they had straps across the back of the legs though.
Basically JNCO jeans had a lot of imitators and they went in different directions. While JNCOs disappeared in the mainstream, other brands filled in the niche market.
crazy how people my age(16) are wanting baggy jeans again, i never liked skinny jeans and always had a feeling that something were wrong w them until i noticed in some show i watched, the characters design looked so cool because he had baggy jeans on
I bought 5 pairs of JNCO shorts back in the late '90s. Love 'em. Still have 2 brand new I only wear on special occasions. I'm 'sentimental' And of course get immediate attention for a guy 70 but I live in a famous beach community so it's 'Not Too far Fetched' I remember their factory because it was next to a railroad yard I worked at next to the Los Angeles River.
pogs should still be a thing imo...cheap to produce...cooler than a fidget spinner and it fucking encourages people to play a game that doesnt involve a console, pc or phone. imagine how easy it would be to market them but I guess they are kinda lame compared to pokemon cards or even marbles =(
I remember always getting in trouble in kindergarten for playing pogs on the bus with the "big kids"(HAAAAAA...). Why we always got in trouble for playing pogs makes no more sense today than it did in kindergarten, like a fuckin back alley dice game(equally as illogical in its illegality - racismmmmmmm)
Wore them, loved them, was super upset when they disappeared and as soon as they came back, bought more. I love them (and Tripp pants, Kikwear, etc.) because they're super comfy and the silhouette is something I always really liked. Yeah, they're not for everyone, but for me and many of my friends these represent a style that I will always identify with.
I owed probably 20 pairs of these in the 90s when I was a teenager they were by far my favorite jeans and Ally paid upwards of $200 for a lot of these jeans. For just one pair. I love them they had giant pictures on the pockets patches well-made patches and they were all different every pair of jeans had a different piece of artwork on it and it was amazing I wish I still had my old jeans I really do.. every pair had a specific name like they had the Rhino they had the brick wall they had the equalizer and every pair of jeans had a separate like name. Like it was a piece of art.
Was Ed Hardy really a fad or more like Tommy Hilfiger where it was a legit brand that trended for years and had no real drop off from obscurity and still has name recognition to this day...so it's not a fad really? That's like calling Tapout brands a fad. Everyone knows what Tapout is...not that many people wanna wear it but it's super known and still a brand right. In 8 years I may even predict Under Armour will be talked about as a fad when really it was just the new brand challenging the market. People will buy their shit in droves, do well and still be called a fad. Just looked up Ed Hardy and looks like they're not doing bad. The prices of their stocks aren't in dead company range at all.
As a teenager in the 90's, I don't think I ever saw anyone wear jnco jeans. Low-rise, cargo pants, khakis, sure. There was even a short fad in the mid 90's where bell bottoms were popular again, but I never once saw jnco jeans in the wild. Maybe they were a mainly west coast thing?
nope, I live in Maryland, and my younger brother and all his friends wore them. I had a few pairs, too, but just the smaller ones. he had the massive 50 inchers. you could get them at Kohl's and Hot Topic, so I doubt they were a regional brand.
I think it may be more fad for different regions. In my school skaters weren’t supper popular they were a fringe group like the Goths. I am sure this was different in other communities.
quiznos is just as good quality wise to subway, too..its odd I only find them in larger cities and theyre always close to a subway which makes no sense. Go where subway isnt, get people to realize theyd rather have you for slightly cheaper and then compete with subways. Half of the kids in this world who grew up to be around 18-24 now have no idea what a quiznos is...they need help.
Quiznos is definitely better quality than Subway - Subway is the McDonald's of sub chains(and, mind you, I don't have a problem with McDonald's, that's not a critical statement, rather an accurate account of their product & market position - sad that this needs clarified, but 'internet' and all...), what with factory precut meat, cheese, and such, dubious quality bulk condoments, etc. Though my preference is Jersey Mike's(legitimate QUALITY), I do miss Quiznos. Seems to me they tried to expand too fast and had a bit of a collapse as a result, I can't say the last time I actually saw one
I used to work at a Quiznos. I'll admit I prefer their sandwiches but in the end customers would always order like a Subway. Don't know if Subway was winning or that they monopolized the way you order sandwiches. One thing's for sure: Quiznos sucked when it came to marketing. They didn't knew what they were doing.
I still remember when i had my first pair and couldnt wait to wear them in school. I wish i could go back and tell my younger self "there are more important things in life than jncos"
JNCO announced the end of their operation on their Facebook page this week. After watching your video I went to check it out and then saw the announcement. Although I didn’t rock them growing up, I remember seeing people wear them in the 90’s. That said, your videos are awesome and really informative. This one took me down memory lane for sure.
24 and a formerly obese child here... so I had more of the 98'-02' era, North Eastern, urban styles; Drunken Monkey, Brooklyn Express, Phat Farm, DKNY, Fubu, Paco, and all of the Polo derivatives, etc... I had the same wardrobe for 15 years just collecting clothes, and rarely bought anything new in the past 10 years so even now that I'm in shape I still wore extremely baggy clothes because even when I was a fat kid they were too big for me. currently I am never seen without a medium form-fitting, semi professional, collared short-sleeve shirt. I just started wearing them after I lost weight too they're actually children's shirts but I never wore them when I was young because I couldn't fit them. I recently sold my massively baggy pants _(42in wide on a 10yo kid)_ and dress like t-shirts, some with the tags still on them because they were impractical and too extravagant for me, now I just wear thrift store cargo work pants within an inch of my waistline just enough to be able to bend down. interestingly enough the triple XL t-shirts that were popular in the 90s on a skinny person essentially are the dress like rompers rappers wear now
I revived this trend from 1999-2004 in Jackson, Ohio. My mother would give us a clothing budget and I was free to get whatever I wanted. When we went to the bigger cities I would always go for the discount racks, and had a 28" waist at the time, so there were usually things that slipped through the cracks of my more "traditionally" American sized colleagues (XL-XXXXL.) I wore over-sized (Medium) synthetic collared shirts with loud patterns, some JNCO, Tripp NYC, and other strange pants, and an assortment of jewelry. Some people though it was strange, but I just enjoyed finding interesting things nobody else would wear from the discount racks and made it into high fashion for rural Southern Ohio. The trend continued there for at least 8 years after I left for the military. I still had underclassmen and their siblings telling me that people were *still* chasing my trend for that long. I knew it was still from what I did because my nickname was "Chavo" in high school, and people still talked about me and my style for almost a decade after I left.
I’m 38 and my husband is 40 so, yeah, we were teenagers in the 90’s and yeah, we both wore them. My brother-in-law was so excited when they brought the brand back that he ended up spending about $800 (according to my sister) on the website to buy a bunch of stuff.
I was the same age as you, 7 or 8 when I started wearing JNCO. I was just copying by older brother. I stopped wearing them when he did (which was probably by 2000).
The only person I've ever seen wear them was some random dude I saw walking by when I was a preteen in 2000. I instantly burst into laughter (he wasn't close enough to hear lol) and told my friends, "Now, those are LIBERTY bell bottoms!" Yeah lol.
hahaha, I am the actual dude who is in a lot of these photos and me and some pals worked with jnco on the relaunch. They hit us up because only one of the original owners still was involved with the company (no original designers/etc.) and they were just making regular straightlegged pants but didn't really understand why they weren't selling as much as they did in the 90s, but didn't understand why wide leg jeans were popular. They had seen photos of us and asked us for feedback which led to us helping authenticate the crimescenes, solid states, and the hypnotix. The fad was back in present day enough for them to revive the style, but not enough for it to make worldwide or even national trends. It DID start in the mid-90s as part of rebel culture which was also involved in /rave/ culture. The back pockets were deep to be able to fit alcohol and spray paint cans originally, but then the bottoms became wider and wider during the rise in nightlife popularity. Early jncos had "Judge None Choose One" printed on the pocket lining and some other areas (as early as 1994/5 with their old logos). It became more involved with rave culture when larger stores went out of business and rave culture was able to actually afford the previously expensive jeans towards the 99'-00' era and exploded. Around that time it became more of a drug reference than a fashion statement, already afflicted by it's decline in popularity from having a 'thug' image from the Los Angeles 'rebel' scene. Ravers have never stopped wearing them though within the underground community, and the resurfacing of them was caused directly by rave culture. In 2010-11 kikwear (another popular extreme wide-leg brand) tried their hand at a relaunch but failed in quality when compared to their older production. When jnco saw the kikwear popularity they tried their hand at another round of wideleg releases as well, but only consisting of things they had released in the 90s but redone. A big issue with 90s branding not really taking off in popularity is the lack of understanding behind what made the actual brands and styles popular, for example, the people working at these companies would not be caught dead in the clothing they are trying to revive, and are producing what they think might be popular (I.E. clothing reboots, the powerpuffgirls reboot, etc. etc.) and just try to market it with a modern twist. This in turn discourages the original fan base who still remembers the authenticity and quality. I agree wholeheartedly, that a brand that makes something whacky and weird can only survive if they make that one thing alone and are known for strictly that market. I am 24 and started wearing the extreme wide-legs after being introduced to 90s rave culture in 2009 when I was 15 and reside in los angeles
i wore them and still do. I've always loved them and its pretty funny watching peoples reactions. favorites are corduroy ones. i rock the JNCO beanie almost every day too!
I'm 33 years old and back in the day, probably around 1998 or 1999, the only JNCO product I ever got was a pair of baggy khaki shorts. To this day I still own them and occasionally wear them to hang around the house because they're super comfortable. They still look almost as good as they did back then! Great quality.
Oh hells yeah, JNCO jeans!! This was TOTALLY my shit back in the day! When I was about 11-15, I would ABSOLUTELY refuse to wear anything but JNCO jeans, the wider legged, the better. Only jean brand you will ever find that specialized in literally making the leg-opening measurement way more important that the actual waist size lol. My parents fucking HATED that my brother and I got into this fad so much, primarily because JNCOs were so damn expensive! I literally remember telling my parents one day as a kid when asked, that I would never wear anything other than wide-legged jeans. Today I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair, lol Edit: Don't forget the most important part of the JNCO jeans, the signature logos and cartoonized characters that were on the back pockets! The coolest pairs had the widest-leg AND the coolest design of the icon on the back pocket!
I seem to remember a friend getting a pair that weren’t actually denim, but neon colored rip stop-like material that had a mesh pockets and ridiculously wide leg openings. I never had a pair myself but I definitely remember these. Especially on “The Ave”, any guy with shoulder length hair, tie-dye shirt and JNCO jeans, were the first people you would go to when looking for a dimer of weed
Lol man the memberberries kicking in! great stuff as always. I always felt they were more of a raver style myself honestly skating with these on was "difficult"
In my area of the south it was the urban Latino, and African American populations who wore them, so I saw it associated with rap, and they even sold bootleg JNCO at the flea market, but I can for sure see them as a raver thing back in the day.
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I held onto my JNCO Crime Scenes for years lol. No idea why as they were a 29 inch waist and 50 inch bottom but man I loved them. My high school janitor would always give me shit when I wore them asking if i was trying to take his job of sweeping the floors.
Bell Bottoms of the 90's.
I have a set of JNCO big rig's and old True religion's kicking around... in 2021
Lmao that janitor is legendary
now you can probably wear them upside down
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My husband received a few boxes of things from his parents after cleaning out their storage unit a few years back. An old pair of JNCO Jeans was inside and he was so stoked...until he tried them on and realized his fourteen-year-old self wasn’t the same size as his current self.
Guess who does fit em?
I am now the proud owner of my very own, mint condition, authentic JNCO jeans. 🤘😆🤘
Maybe he should try them on through the leg hole.
If they were high waisted, I would wear them.
you rock!
Why’s your forehead so big?
You rock Meagon S
I remember my older brother and his friends would wear jncos to help facilitate the acquisition of 40 oz. beverages
Yep. The first time I ever got drunk was in the summer before 9th grade with a bottle of mud slide that my friend slipped seamlessly into his JNCOs. Memories
40oz in the back pocket and just hassling the store clerk
Stop snitchin
Chris P that’s nasty
You put a 40 oz and a carton of cigarettes in the back pocket and someone could stand behind you and toss stuff in the general direction and not miss those pockets.
POV: its now 2024 and JNCO is back, pairs on depop selling for $500USD + ... Crazy
That’s why you should just buy the ones on the website
Site pairs are no more than $300, people pay more than that for the vintage pairs though
@@TheMorgueBasicSlasherFan Some of them aren't sold on the site itself. Had to pay around $300ish to get my hands on black Crime Scenes
I was a skater in the late 90's. I was hitting the ramps at the park on the other side of town almost every weekend. What we liked about JNCOs is that we could wear pads *under* the jeans very easily. I didn't go super-wide like the pants shown in this video, but wide enough so that it wasn't too tight for the pads. Another thing is that with the wider openings, it covered the skates and looked really cool, as if you were just floating on the ramps.
I'm with you dude I started skating in the 90s and jncos made it Almost impossible for me to learn hard flips my board always caught my pants leg I had to get a smaller leg size and I was good lol.
Comfort is key!
I agree man
I saw a dude rocking some JNCO's at universal studios the other day. He damn sure owned the look, that brave soul
Randy Magnum funny, I remembered being at Busch gardens and seeing this dude with some black Jnco's, a Disturbed shirt, and a goatee, and thinking to myself that he nailed the look.
johndeska1 Your comment made me laugh out loud
Dude that was hilarious 😆
bless that brave soul lol
yo same kinda story but i was in a feild trip with my class to a music meuseum, PERFECT PLACE! and i saw some kid with some cool black jnco jeans, the ones ive always wanted, and i was like "HEY DUDE NICE JNCO JEANS, and he said "aw thanks man, i had to save up for these" and tbh... he really was diggin' the look, i said to him i really wanted some... but anyways i hope i get them soon... im a teen with parents who limit money on things so-
Those pockets look handy for carrying around a laptop or perhaps your favorite bowling ball.
This comment just made my day :D
Textbooks
Implying I have a least favorite bowling ball.
I didn't need to carry around a purse those days. Such easier times.
Nintendo Switch
I think I still have a pair in my shed. Just in case a middle-aged man wearing JNCO becomes cool.
Any time now.
Wait....when isn't it cool?
Why in your shed?
veevyo Odd work pants but who am I to judge?
Lol I still have a pair of Snakeyes jeans. I'd love to find ModRobes again!
God, I loved my Jnco jeans. I miss them. Kind of a "had to be there" kind of style.
nah man, people still love jnco to this day, even kids like me.
who knows, maybe you'll get lucky and find a pair in the thrift.
JNCOs are back!!
It’s crazy watching this video in 2022 because now these jeans are literally the style again.
I'm too smart to get into fads. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to feed my Beanie Babies.
I grew up in the 90's, and also didn't get into fads, I bought my school clothes at the thrift store so I could spend the rest of the money on beer and weed.
Yes and my Webkinz.
Jason Fischer that reminds me, I have to walk my pet rock.
Chris Schmelter What do you mean i genuinely don’t understand what you’re saying.
@@potatoeboy8757 Beanie Babys were one of the biggest fads, Company man has a video about it now.
I worked for JNCO (we all said it like "jaynko") just toward the end of its fat leg heyday in the late 90s. You forgot to mention RAVERS as a major target demographic! A lot of those embroidered patch designs were made with the fun of candy ravers in mind! The huge pockets were perfect for jamming water bottles and all your other shit in them so you could be free to dance at events! Kikwear was our biggest rival, back then, though they eventually won out for designing jeans that were more minimalist in style AND - the most important part - a lot lighter! Do you remember how thick and heavy the big baggy JNCO jeans used to be? Especially with all those pockets and the thick embroidered patches? The biggest pair I ever wore were Mammoths, and I loved them back then! :D They did also make more subtle jeans back then, btw, which were featured in the Melrose boutique. Fitted track suits and butt and waist hugging jeans that started to widen at about mid-thigh for the ladies. There was plenty of more normal stuff they made, but it's the big raver jeans everyone remembers, of course! BTW, aren't fat pants seeing a resurgence in the US now? They've been all the rage here for about 2 years in Japan. I laugh my ass off every time I see Japanese girls walking around with huge, fat legged pants - because they're totally socially acceptable now! XD Most of these gals were probably in diapers when this style was a big fad back in the late 90s!
Never had anything from JNCO myself (maybe they never crossed the border into Canada) but I was a raver and that style was very popular for the reasons you mentioned. Lots of room for water bottles, candy, glowsticks, etc. After the style died, cargo pants became popular with ravers for a while. Still lots of room for stuff but much lighter than the fat jeans.
surprisingly i had a pair of JNCO's that were not massive.
I forget what category they were in
I am in a bunch of the photos from this video and wear kikwear/jnco/gat/illig/auraze/macgear/menace/etc. still today. It is heavily embedded in underground rave culture still hahaha. I think the main thing that had kikwear outlast was their ability to be cheap but play it off as an intentional thing. Putting the same tags on different pants, reusing designs, thinner fabrics, etc. etc. They were mostly cheap in manufacturing but were able to pass the savings on to their customers. It is DEFINITELY big within the japan fashion and techno cultures there as well though, but not a lot of local companies producing it. Any companies that do it now are unfortunately just doing it out of throwback effect vs. passion in my opinion
Here in Us, I would say just a nice loose/baggy bootcut, I was from the days Grunge was king here, and to this day I still wear clothes for comfort over asthetics.
Menace was also a competitor but not as prevalent as Kikwear. Especially when considering the ravers. Menace was actually closer to JNCO because they offered normal sizes unlike Kikwear. Both could be found at Hot Topic. Menace could be found alongside JNCO at Bobs. From what I remember Kik was always massive legs while JNCO and Menace offered a range. And both had fun illustrations on the pockets
"THERE'S THE FIFTY INCH OPENING"
good lord Company Man, calm down
"What ever pants you're wearing" smh. Bold of you to assume that I am wearing leg prisons.
I just remember the bigger the jeans the cooler you were. It was almost like a contest of who could get the biggest jeans. I had a friend who i swear could comfortably fit a full grown adult in each pant leg
🤣
I'm not wearing pants right now, but....JNCOs are the most comfortable and durable jeans ever made. I still have three pairs hanging up in my closet. Pants you can actually access the pockets while sitting. These were great. Screw all these ball strangling new styles.
sccrash420 Tight pants aren't a new style. Look at the 80s. Go watch the first Back to the Future. Lol
JNCOs were useful and comfortable. They were durable...but if they were too long they would get damaged..which is typically how they were worn. lol
SOOOO Comfortable!
Agreed! Jncos are DA BOMB!
Alan Ferro everything recycles. I groaned when I saw a teenager wearing a srunchy and leg warmers. Damnit, I had escaped that.
Slap bracelets
Hammer pants
Troll dolls
Tickle-Me Elmo
Silly bands, I used to run around school trash cans and collect all the broken silly bands melt the two ends together and resell em. I made so much cash im using the computer i bought with the funds 5 years later. XD
Part of every children's bondage playset
Nathan C. I used to run around school trash cans to eat...
specifically the ice cold milks and unwrapped cheeseburgers that were in the bin, slices of pizza fries bags of chips etcetera that wasteful entitled Millennials didn't care for.
I would even find money sometimes in the trash and the custodians did the same thing.
the most blatant was a girl on her phone in the line just buying a full tray of food nonchalantly tossing it in the trash can right after buying it and strutting out.
Nathan C. Silly bands got banned at my school pretty soon after the fad started.
HebaruSan sounds like we grew up about the same time :)
its weird that this brand is so emblematic of the style, because a lot of brands did styles like this. they were hugely popular in raves and the goth scene. the thing is, I don't see much of an "underground" or "counterculture" scene, anymore. do doubt there are still goth and metal bands, but I never see any angry, rebellious fashions. Hot Topic is full of mainstream nerd stuff like Marvel and Big Bang Theory. if JNCO is going to revive the style, we need to give the kids a reason to rebel in a way that isn't just trolling on 4chan.
kenneth wallace I don't know, but in my area it seems to be like everyone's Fashions choices are still from the mid-late 2000s. And the rebellious ones are pulling a hybrid between sporty and gothic because it's raining almost everyday here.
Kenneth, I was wondering what the latest rebellious fashion trend was for teens. Growing up we had grunge, goth and emo. Then hipster came in and all of that seemed to die down. Maybe it's "nerdy empowerment rebellion"?
Actually if you look at certain rappers it is kind of like they had a baby with emo , and that is sort of where I feel things have gone/ are going . Some kind of hip hop ,rock combo style. I just haven't heard a real name for it yet that has been popularized.
eartianfizz That trend is actually shit, if you look at closely.
@Bakamalian Um..what? Is there a point to your comment to a person who is no longer on here?
guess who's back
"Judge none, choose one"
I think that roughly means, "Sir, we really don't care which ones just please put some pants on"
I was a teenager in the the late 90’s and never considered clothing myself in these jeans. Now that sweater that girl was wearing at 8:54 I would have most definitely worn that.
I agree, I never wanted to wear a dress made out of denim. I always thought they were pretty stupid. I never understood the appeal.
Brian Lavoie I lol’d! Thanks for the cheer up.
There was this morbidly obese girl at my school who wore a denim dress (yes, a real one, not 60" JNCO jeans) every single day. I think it was because she wanted fit in with her friends who all wore JNCO jeans but they didn't make any in her size.
Same, I was in middle school when these were popular. I think I wore them once when I was trying to “fit” in, but I felt so awkward in them. Never wore them again.
I hate the slim fit era. I was 12 and wore these in 1998-2001. I didn't care who else wore them. I liked baggy clothes. I still do.
Who the hell wants to look at men in tight clothes?
y'all remember tripp pants?
Essentially jncos meet seventies punk bondage pants from Malcolm McLarens famous shop on the king's road. Yup.
I had a pair of Tripp pants that had handcuffs and chains attached to them.
Lol hell yeah
I do was in the rave scene in the late 90s early 2000s
Remember? Still have two pair
you should have done a special edition company man silhouette rockin the JNCO's...
You're absolutely right. Wish I had thought of that.
you could always make it a follow up video, or a "Special Edition" reedit. ;-)
Keep this in mind for future videos - SO many possibilities!
Company Man do a follow up in a year with the special logo when you report on the failure of the comeback.
Company Man somewhere there's a deviant artist already making it
The 90s and early 2000s baggy jeans are currently trending atm. A pair of Jnco cost around $200+ I sell vintage streetwear and grew up seeing all the brands from the 90s until today. So brands like Stussy, Anchor Blue, Phat Farm, Ecko, Akademiks, The Hundreds and so on are what the younger generation are wearing. The skinny jeans era went out probably around 2019-2020 and now it's vintage Starter jackets, Harley Davidson, Y2k Skull designs and rock band tees
im 14 and jnco has def made a comeback now, i have 7 pairs and everyone loves them, jncos are def the best thing I’ve ever bought. jncos js need to lower the prices a bit but im glad jnco is coming back!
My best friend in high school wore these, and I mocked him daily for it. Had to ban him from my house in the winter because he would drag in 20lbs of water, salt, and gravel with these stupid things.
FNHot yes in the late 90s early 2000s the cuffs of pants were nasty hahah
Hahah yes. And they were all tattered to shit
@@Scrimjer I still wear JNCO Jeans and mine drag. I don't like todays style at all. Early 2000s forever
ahahahahaha
@@MylarBalloonLoverthey back
I doubt JNCO was sold in Europe or at least in my country. We had Homeboy and No Fear instead and they were pretty huge. Holy heck, that takes me back.
altrogeruvah I definitely remember no fear, and don't remember the name jnco. But I don't think baggy jeans had one major brand attached to them in Europe.
No Fear was big in Europe...wow never knew that. No Fear was a motocross kids dream gear at one point and even some skaters, bikers...anyone athletic on a self propelled vehicle lol....
"Homeboy" - please tell me that's as God awful lame as it sounds...
Another 'hardcore cage fighter brah' brand like Tapout and such?
altrogeruvah No Fear went down hill super quick from cool to ummmm....
I love the No fear shirts with the angry eyes looking out on everyone.
Homeboy i have not really heard of until now.
I still have several pairs of jncos in my closet from 20 years ago. I can't believe I was so obsessed with a pair of jeans in middle school. Another fad from middle school(98) was laser pointers. For a couple years everywhere in and out of school, you'd see red dots everywhere. It got to the point where my school would expel you for having one cause "it could cause eye damage."
Literally just talked about the laser pointer thing yesterday with my wife and friend. They'd take those away for good if you had them at school. Those and yo-yos when they made a comeback in the mid 90's.
if you still own your jncos i would be down to buy them
“That JNCO name means THICC LEGGS”
💀💀💀
POV: its 2022 and the baggy style has been returned
yeah! I have the polar big boys! shame they were more expensive then I thought they should be! but they are damn comfy
Fun fashion fact: the better the economy, the more fabric is used in garments. In the 1900s, dresses were big and poofy, then came the Great Depression and shorter, tighter flapper dresses were in style. By the 1940s, the economy had improved, and voluminous zoot suits were fashionable for men. The same is true of the 1990s, there was an economic boom, and clothing got bigger, like these crazy pants! (I was in high school at this time, but this style was really only popular with a certain demographic, they weren't the "in" style for everyone to wear to fit in.)
LolaGeek awesome point. fashion always reflects culture. Why i as well love fashion history :)
What about today? Leggings and jeans are literally being sucked up women’s asses right now as if they were Kirby.
Skittlezz 889 And when did leggings and skinny jeans get popular? Around the time of the mid-2000s "great recession."
I was in high school during this fad too. If you were looking for drugs you'd find the people wearing jncos lol
LolaGeek Slim/skinny jeans were popular in the 80s too.
Ah JNCO, I remember wearing these in High School. I might still have a pair floating around my house somewhere. I don't care how uncool they are now, or how cool they were then; JNCO made the most comfortable jeans ever! It was really the only reason I wore them, it had nothing to do with fashion, they were just damn comfortable. I really never got how skinny jeans became so popular, they are the antithesis to comfort, especially for guys lol.
they did feel like wearing pajamas at school for sure
I used to make fun of people back then for wearing nut huggers.
if you still own your jncos i would be down to buy them off you
You know, this video actually makes me kind of want a pair of JNCO Jeans. Not because of the crazy cuff lengths, but for those pockets! You know how women complain about how men's jeans have bigger pockets, and men complain about how the social acceptibility of using a purse, which is great for holding most things?
Well those JNCO pockets look like I could buy a purse, safely hide it in my pants, and still have lots of extra room to store any other things I would want to carry with me. Those pockets look like you could carry small dogs in them the way women do their purses, heck maybe you could carry one medium sized dog in a single pocket. Methinks there's an untapped market for jeans with comically large pockets sans parachute cuffs.
Middle class cis white male I also think there's an untapped market for pockets in bras and shoes. Club girls hardly wear any clothes, and don't want to pay coat check. But if they had pockets in their shoes and bras for their I.D and makeup etc....
I never used a purse until I stopped wearing JNCOs. :(
There are bra pockets out there as well as these tight waistbands you can wear underneath a shirt that will hold stuff...it's like a very thin fanny pack.
Hey, there are purses for men too nowadays.
There’s nothing socially acceptable or redeemable about wearing these clown pants.
Gypsy Woman bras DEFINITELY. I have hidden money in my bra. Problem isssss....drugs. Ppl will use them for that.
Actually just told my wife I used to wear them the other day while passing by a Pacsun. She laughed at me. I got nostalgic. Good times lol
I really love the look of JNCO jeans. I liked the way they looked in the 90s, and I like the way they look now.
Those jeans were great. I loved them. They were just so comfortable and roomy. Now I never wore the huge legged pants but the huge pockets with a chain wallet were where it was at.
chain wallet was a must
I wore the 50" jeans in the mid 90's. They were great to go stealing with. One time, I got 12 spray cans into the pants and walk away.
They were big in RAVE culture. I first saw them at raves in Los Angeles in the early 90s, and that style was huge with ravers til the early 2000s.
DJ AUDIO1 same here. I was fairly skinny so I could only get 3 in front and 3 in back.
My friend admitted he used to steal cartons of Newport’s in the back pockets!
DJ AUDIO1 I had a pair of semi baggy jeans, with huge pockets on the shin sections. You could just drop stuff right in there on the go and know one could tell.
funny in the Dutch Rave scene it auzy tracksuit where the thing to where. together with Nike air max. O and lots and lots of XTC and Speed.
here it still is how ever it has become more of a real art.
Our school didn't ban them until the fashion became wearing a giant wallet chain with them. That lasted a few months.
And the presented timeline fits, these were totally uncool by the time I graduated HS in 2002. #ClassOf9-11 :(
My school never banned the jeans, just the chains. The fashion might have lost mainstream appeal, but it still existed and changed within certain groups. They were popular with ravers in the early 2000s and some goth-like/alternative types with Tripp jeans. I wore both JNCO and Tripp jeans back in the day. By the mid-2000s they were completely dead in public. I wasn't a raver so I don't know when they died out in that scene or if they even completely died out in that scene since pretty much anything goes.
Same here with the chains. I remember the principal announcing on the PA system that, if caught with one, they'll either confiscate it, make you change into your gym shorts or simply send you home. They never really cared about the ridiculous width on the legs. As for myself, I was never into the fad. I wore regular trousers or something equivalent. It was mostly the rebellious types that sported the JNCO/Tripp jeans.
These were popular in my area fro. 95 to 97 aww nd then dead, only the select few wore them after everyone was wearing them.
If you were a stoner or a skater in my high school, you were wearing JNCOs or Tripp jeans.
class of 2002 from CHHS here
"That JNCO name represents thick legs"
-Company Man
IT CAME BACK AND ITS BETTER THAN EVER
To revive a style, you have to appeal to an image people strive to achieve. Being as only Cyber Goths really wear JNCO now a days, it would be hard to remove from that established idea, and relate it to people with common style sensibilities.
Do cyber goths only hang out on the dark web because it's dark, like their mood?
Robert Morgan Robert Morgan hahaha I hope so! But they also seem to congregate under bridges for neon dance parties: th-cam.com/video/jltKnDlH_OA/w-d-xo.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybergoth
I'm into it tho, it would fit into the thrifting and vintage scene really well since 80s and 90s are the main course. It would be cool to own a very wide pair.
I'm not a cyber goth and I totally rock JNCO jeans, I don't paint my nails, I don't wear lipstick and I don't have any social media and TH-cam is the only part of the internet I really go to other than jncojeans.com I just dig the image and what JNCO represent
Seeing this reminds me of Paco Jeans, man how time flies
Or Joe Boxer. I think they're still around, but during the late 90's-early 00's they were crazy popular in my country.
Here's a request/video idea:
What ever happened to FUBU? The clothing.
They went from $100k in 1992, to $350 million in sales in 1998, then gone in 2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBU
Robert Morgan fubu is shark on shark tank now. Lol
I remember FUBU! I never wore them, but I remember it being everywhere.
+Robert Morgan You should watch the show Shark Tank on ABC. The founder of FUBU, Daymond John, is one of the regulars on the show. FUBU might no longer be popular, but Daymond John is still very active in the fashion industry. He just owns different brands now.
Robert Morgan fubu did become coogi at 1 point
How about Sassoon and Jourdache?
You have to make a raise fall and raise again video on jncos, they are currently trending all over in the fashion world
Wsg gunna
@@crazycactusfarmer3250 yo
I wore them and so happy they are back. I bought a pair off the website.
Hah! I'm actually surprised my school never banned them - they went after anything else vaguely urban.
Seán Patrick Eckmann of course they wouldn’t, because most of the people who wore JNCO were white people. The baggy pants the Latino Community wore were banned and those were sold at Miller’s outpost. They were a different brand too, particularly Dickies. I’m Latino and live in heavy Latino population.
chicks got banned from capris due to showing skin but theyd let the boys sag and show their ugly ass patterened boxers. lol pretty sure neither gender was trying to attract the other with those trends but thats the reason they stated
werent capris and sagging pants more a social thing among your own gender? like the least sexual thing ever lol
in addition to Tripp pants with leather straps and bondage chains which could be considered weapons they were a safety hazard. just going down the staircase as the oversized legs caused tripping.
Nexcion153 Correct, Jnco was a white people brand. For us it was oversized Ben Davis and Dickies. Those Ben Davis pants were like cardboard...Lol!
gunter smith Wtf are you going on about? When the fuck did I say “fuck white people”? I was being a realist here and telling the OP why they didn’t ban JNCO jeans. Sit the fuck down and shut up little boy when the adults are talking.
The goth pants of the early 2000s
I believe they were called "tripps"
ΔΘΛΞΠΣΦΨΩ yessssss
i have tripp pants
there almost the same just some asthetic shit
The brand was Tripp, but they're still around, selling their overpriced goth clothes.
I remember Tripp pants, used to hang out with the freak/goth crowd in high school, and a lot of people I knew wore them. I never got why they had straps across the back of the legs though.
Basically JNCO jeans had a lot of imitators and they went in different directions. While JNCOs disappeared in the mainstream, other brands filled in the niche market.
We called them Gaucho pants in the '50's.
@RTHA300 have some respect for yourself elders and the English language
Yeah, Gaucho pants are pretty similar.
@@mmoore5190 shut the fuck up
@@xanbantaliban8147 go read a book
@@mmoore5190 tell your momma that
crazy how people my age(16) are wanting baggy jeans again, i never liked skinny jeans and always had a feeling that something were wrong w them until i noticed in some show i watched, the characters design looked so cool because he had baggy jeans on
I bought 5 pairs of JNCO shorts back in the late '90s. Love 'em.
Still have 2 brand new I only wear on special occasions. I'm 'sentimental'
And of course get immediate attention for a guy 70 but I live in a famous beach community so it's 'Not Too far Fetched'
I remember their factory because it was next to a railroad yard I worked at next to the Los Angeles River.
Do Poggs!
"Alf pogs! Remember Alf?"
pogs should still be a thing imo...cheap to produce...cooler than a fidget spinner and it fucking encourages people to play a game that doesnt involve a console, pc or phone. imagine how easy it would be to market them but I guess they are kinda lame compared to pokemon cards or even marbles =(
I remember always getting in trouble in kindergarten for playing pogs on the bus with the "big kids"(HAAAAAA...). Why we always got in trouble for playing pogs makes no more sense today than it did in kindergarten, like a fuckin back alley dice game(equally as illogical in its illegality - racismmmmmmm)
Nelson3300 "He's back, in pog form."
I still have Power Ranger and Hot Wheels Pogs
Nu-metal
That is all.
This was waaayyyy before Nu Metal's time.
@@rushxanthemtcg5607 no
numetal still lives, just not the jeans
God thinks we will never see the light, who wants to see?
God told me, I've already got the life, oh I see.
its not as popular as it was but there are some notable bands like slipknot and korn
In my high school, people were still wearing these. This was 2003 😂
I got mine in 2002 I was 9.
Wore them, loved them, was super upset when they disappeared and as soon as they came back, bought more. I love them (and Tripp pants, Kikwear, etc.) because they're super comfy and the silhouette is something I always really liked. Yeah, they're not for everyone, but for me and many of my friends these represent a style that I will always identify with.
I owed probably 20 pairs of these in the 90s when I was a teenager they were by far my favorite jeans and Ally paid upwards of $200 for a lot of these jeans. For just one pair. I love them they had giant pictures on the pockets patches well-made patches and they were all different every pair of jeans had a different piece of artwork on it and it was amazing I wish I still had my old jeans I really do.. every pair had a specific name like they had the Rhino they had the brick wall they had the equalizer and every pair of jeans had a separate like name. Like it was a piece of art.
I literally watched this video last night and tonight I saw it was announced earlier that JNCO is going out of business. What have I done
Do Ed hardy clothing fad next 😅
Now this, I remember. I don't remember the JNCO trend very well.
Was Ed Hardy really a fad or more like Tommy Hilfiger where it was a legit brand that trended for years and had no real drop off from obscurity and still has name recognition to this day...so it's not a fad really? That's like calling Tapout brands a fad. Everyone knows what Tapout is...not that many people wanna wear it but it's super known and still a brand right. In 8 years I may even predict Under Armour will be talked about as a fad when really it was just the new brand challenging the market. People will buy their shit in droves, do well and still be called a fad. Just looked up Ed Hardy and looks like they're not doing bad. The prices of their stocks aren't in dead company range at all.
Sad that Ed Hardy's name has become such a joke - dude was an absolutely legit artist
As a teenager in the 90's, I don't think I ever saw anyone wear jnco jeans. Low-rise, cargo pants, khakis, sure. There was even a short fad in the mid 90's where bell bottoms were popular again, but I never once saw jnco jeans in the wild. Maybe they were a mainly west coast thing?
nope, I live in Maryland, and my younger brother and all his friends wore them. I had a few pairs, too, but just the smaller ones. he had the massive 50 inchers. you could get them at Kohl's and Hot Topic, so I doubt they were a regional brand.
Definitely not coastal, tons of them here in Phoenix AZ in the late 90s.
I think it may be more fad for different regions. In my school skaters weren’t supper popular they were a fringe group like the Goths. I am sure this was different in other communities.
Definitely popular on the west coast
Hmm, I guess they just missed me then. 2001 grad, grew up in the midwest and moved to Texas in 98.
hey revisit this, kids are wearing them again
Dis vid is still relevant til dis day. Jnco making a comeback.
Do one about Subway I hear they’re in trouble.
Nolan Schenburn like Quiznos? Man I miss Quiznos
quiznos is just as good quality wise to subway, too..its odd I only find them in larger cities and theyre always close to a subway which makes no sense. Go where subway isnt, get people to realize theyd rather have you for slightly cheaper and then compete with subways. Half of the kids in this world who grew up to be around 18-24 now have no idea what a quiznos is...they need help.
Quiznos is definitely better quality than Subway - Subway is the McDonald's of sub chains(and, mind you, I don't have a problem with McDonald's, that's not a critical statement, rather an accurate account of their product & market position - sad that this needs clarified, but 'internet' and all...), what with factory precut meat, cheese, and such, dubious quality bulk condoments, etc.
Though my preference is Jersey Mike's(legitimate QUALITY), I do miss Quiznos. Seems to me they tried to expand too fast and had a bit of a collapse as a result, I can't say the last time I actually saw one
I used to work at a Quiznos. I'll admit I prefer their sandwiches but in the end customers would always order like a Subway. Don't know if Subway was winning or that they monopolized the way you order sandwiches. One thing's for sure: Quiznos sucked when it came to marketing. They didn't knew what they were doing.
Do you remember the Quiznos commercial with the freaky singing hamster monsters that didn't make any sense? OMG that was hilariously stupid.
little does he know
watching this in my twin cannons
I love looking at old 90s raves, with the Raver girls in JNCO jeans...what a magical time.
I have issues with standard jeans to this day due to wearing JNCO and Kickwear for so long.
Lol, to this day I look at how wide the legs are before buying jeans
Interesting pronounciation: You pronounce it "Jan-Co", while all those around my (Southwest USA) as "Geen-co" or "Jinko"
Yeah I've heard a bunch of different ways to say it. Address it a little at the very end.
I thought it was “jean-co”.
I don’t see how “geen-co” could be a pronunciation since there isn’t even a G in there...
Around here we've always pronounced it jang-co. Love these pants
I always knew them as gin-co
I've heard it as "Jen-ko."
I still remember when i had my first pair and couldnt wait to wear them in school. I wish i could go back and tell my younger self "there are more important things in life than jncos"
Do you really think your younger self would have listened?
@@elizabethsohler1847 touche
You should do a video on the PS2 and how damn successful it was
JNCO announced the end of their operation on their Facebook page this week. After watching your video I went to check it out and then saw the announcement. Although I didn’t rock them growing up, I remember seeing people wear them in the 90’s. That said, your videos are awesome and really informative. This one took me down memory lane for sure.
I dont know if hes aware now put JNCOs(specially vintage ones) made a huge comeback and are in style again with other insanely baggy jeans.
I had so many pairsss... I'm 34
34 checking in, had a few pairs, but you had to have the big, long chain wallet to go with it.
24 and a formerly obese child here... so I had more of the 98'-02' era, North Eastern, urban styles; Drunken Monkey, Brooklyn Express, Phat Farm, DKNY, Fubu, Paco, and all of the Polo derivatives, etc...
I had the same wardrobe for 15 years just collecting clothes, and rarely bought anything new in the past 10 years so even now that I'm in shape I still wore extremely baggy clothes because even when I was a fat kid they were too big for me.
currently I am never seen without a medium form-fitting, semi professional, collared short-sleeve shirt. I just started wearing them after I lost weight too they're actually children's shirts but I never wore them when I was young because I couldn't fit them.
I recently sold my massively baggy pants _(42in wide on a 10yo kid)_ and dress like t-shirts, some with the tags still on them because they were impractical and too extravagant for me, now I just wear thrift store cargo work pants within an inch of my waistline just enough to be able to bend down.
interestingly enough the triple XL t-shirts that were popular in the 90s on a skinny person essentially are the dress like rompers rappers wear now
And anchor blue. Nostalgia overload
Same here my man I’m 35
The thumbnail for this video is my favorite of yours so far.
Mine too actually. Thanks for noticing.
You're welcome!
in 2024 their some of the most popular pants right now
I revived this trend from 1999-2004 in Jackson, Ohio. My mother would give us a clothing budget and I was free to get whatever I wanted. When we went to the bigger cities I would always go for the discount racks, and had a 28" waist at the time, so there were usually things that slipped through the cracks of my more "traditionally" American sized colleagues (XL-XXXXL.) I wore over-sized (Medium) synthetic collared shirts with loud patterns, some JNCO, Tripp NYC, and other strange pants, and an assortment of jewelry. Some people though it was strange, but I just enjoyed finding interesting things nobody else would wear from the discount racks and made it into high fashion for rural Southern Ohio. The trend continued there for at least 8 years after I left for the military. I still had underclassmen and their siblings telling me that people were *still* chasing my trend for that long. I knew it was still from what I did because my nickname was "Chavo" in high school, and people still talked about me and my style for almost a decade after I left.
I’m 38 and my husband is 40 so, yeah, we were teenagers in the 90’s and yeah, we both wore them. My brother-in-law was so excited when they brought the brand back that he ended up spending about $800 (according to my sister) on the website to buy a bunch of stuff.
I was the same age as you, 7 or 8 when I started wearing JNCO. I was just copying by older brother. I stopped wearing them when he did (which was probably by 2000).
Damn, I’m bout to carry my gaming setup with me, where we landing bois?
I will always love big pants, I wish they made them long enough nowadays.
The only person I've ever seen wear them was some random dude I saw walking by when I was a preteen in 2000. I instantly burst into laughter (he wasn't close enough to hear lol) and told my friends, "Now, those are LIBERTY bell bottoms!" Yeah lol.
I got an ad on Facebook from JNCO and had a good laugh going down memory lane.
hahaha, I am the actual dude who is in a lot of these photos and me and some pals worked with jnco on the relaunch. They hit us up because only one of the original owners still was involved with the company (no original designers/etc.) and they were just making regular straightlegged pants but didn't really understand why they weren't selling as much as they did in the 90s, but didn't understand why wide leg jeans were popular. They had seen photos of us and asked us for feedback which led to us helping authenticate the crimescenes, solid states, and the hypnotix.
The fad was back in present day enough for them to revive the style, but not enough for it to make worldwide or even national trends. It DID start in the mid-90s as part of rebel culture which was also involved in /rave/ culture. The back pockets were deep to be able to fit alcohol and spray paint cans originally, but then the bottoms became wider and wider during the rise in nightlife popularity. Early jncos had "Judge None Choose One" printed on the pocket lining and some other areas (as early as 1994/5 with their old logos). It became more involved with rave culture when larger stores went out of business and rave culture was able to actually afford the previously expensive jeans towards the 99'-00' era and exploded. Around that time it became more of a drug reference than a fashion statement, already afflicted by it's decline in popularity from having a 'thug' image from the Los Angeles 'rebel' scene.
Ravers have never stopped wearing them though within the underground community, and the resurfacing of them was caused directly by rave culture. In 2010-11 kikwear (another popular extreme wide-leg brand) tried their hand at a relaunch but failed in quality when compared to their older production. When jnco saw the kikwear popularity they tried their hand at another round of wideleg releases as well, but only consisting of things they had released in the 90s but redone.
A big issue with 90s branding not really taking off in popularity is the lack of understanding behind what made the actual brands and styles popular, for example, the people working at these companies would not be caught dead in the clothing they are trying to revive, and are producing what they think might be popular (I.E. clothing reboots, the powerpuffgirls reboot, etc. etc.) and just try to market it with a modern twist. This in turn discourages the original fan base who still remembers the authenticity and quality.
I agree wholeheartedly, that a brand that makes something whacky and weird can only survive if they make that one thing alone and are known for strictly that market.
I am 24 and started wearing the extreme wide-legs after being introduced to 90s rave culture in 2009 when I was 15 and reside in los angeles
I heard they're coming back into fashion!! (i love them i bought two when i went to Japan last month :)
Uniqlo sells them and a lot of other stores tools
Everyone who sees you in them thinks you look like an idiot.
Gecko clothing line from the 90"s
And lee pipes and No fear
i wore them and still do. I've always loved them and its pretty funny watching peoples reactions. favorites are corduroy ones. i rock the JNCO beanie almost every day too!
I think Southpole took over after that. Low price and available everywhere. Can you do Southpole next?
I still rock baggy pants
Same.
The baggy pants resurgence of 2023-24
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It started more in 2020
They were so comfortable
what’s crazy is that now teenagers are reverting back with the baggy pants, i barely see anyone my age with skinny jeans
I'm 33 years old and back in the day, probably around 1998 or 1999, the only JNCO product I ever got was a pair of baggy khaki shorts. To this day I still own them and occasionally wear them to hang around the house because they're super comfortable. They still look almost as good as they did back then! Great quality.
"That was a weird sentence..."
Oh hells yeah, JNCO jeans!! This was TOTALLY my shit back in the day! When I was about 11-15, I would ABSOLUTELY refuse to wear anything but JNCO jeans, the wider legged, the better. Only jean brand you will ever find that specialized in literally making the leg-opening measurement way more important that the actual waist size lol. My parents fucking HATED that my brother and I got into this fad so much, primarily because JNCOs were so damn expensive! I literally remember telling my parents one day as a kid when asked, that I would never wear anything other than wide-legged jeans. Today I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair, lol
Edit: Don't forget the most important part of the JNCO jeans, the signature logos and cartoonized characters that were on the back pockets! The coolest pairs had the widest-leg AND the coolest design of the icon on the back pocket!
I seem to remember a friend getting a pair that weren’t actually denim, but neon colored rip stop-like material that had a mesh pockets and ridiculously wide leg openings. I never had a pair myself but I definitely remember these. Especially on “The Ave”, any guy with shoulder length hair, tie-dye shirt and JNCO jeans, were the first people you would go to when looking for a dimer of weed
Not one mention of ravers...
i was sooooo a raver and these jeans were a big part of our culture.
This guy says was 7 years old when he wore them, he wasn't going to raves
@@brendanclaudelahey4417 Not with that attitude!
Having a pair of Jncos was a matter of life and death to me in 1996
Holy shit I remember the nightmare that was walking in the rain wearing these. They just absorbed all of the water on the street.
Lol man the memberberries kicking in! great stuff as always. I always felt they were more of a raver style myself honestly skating with these on was "difficult"
In my area of the south it was the urban Latino, and African American populations who wore them, so I saw it associated with rap, and they even sold bootleg JNCO at the flea market, but I can for sure see them as a raver thing back in the day.
chapsticky00 I guess it depended on where you lived
Yeah, I asked my mom if she remembers JNCO (She was a teen in the 90's) And she said that the pants were only really worn by white kids
Man fast forward to 2024 beat up jnco jeans are selling for 2000$ on eBay.
JNCO!!! Still wear them occasionally. Best jeans ever!
lmao it’s back in style now
Oh God... pls don't remind me of those pants, wore them longer than they were popular.
I was a teenager
I wore them for a bit long, but no regrets. They were comfortable and I could carry a lot of things with me.