A 35-year-old Australian woman was rushed to the hospital recently after collapsing in a park, citing loss of feeling in her legs and feet. Turns out, after a day of helping a family member move—which involved a certain amount of squatting—her skinny jeans had cut off the blood supply to her calf muscles.
For over a hundred years, U.S. dollars have been printed on a unique cotton blend paper made using scraps of denim sold in bulk by the garment industry. In fact, about 30 percent of the cotton used in our money$ came from leftover denim (the rest coming from a variety of other textile wastes). It was all fine and…
I guess my best friend's college boyfriend was onto something after all: Two-tone jeans are back!
Bad news, friends. Your skinny jeans are slowly sapping the life out of you — that is if they haven't killed you already. You could be dead right now and not even know it, like something out of a M. Night Shyamalan movie. In fact, let's just assume that you are dead and I am addressing a bunch of ghosts.
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 19: Socialite Paris Hilton, dressed totally appropriately in skinny jeans and heels, paints a wall with graffiti as she performs community service with Hollywood Beautification Team. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
PR companies trying to shill shit for women email us with their announcements, hard sells and hoopla. The result? A smattering of what people think women (or we) want. Crap emails from publicists, after the jump.
Experts say they've been seeing young women with meralgia paresthetica — which happens when constant pressure cuts off the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, causing a numb, tingling or burning sensation along the thigh. The culprit? Skinny jeans. I might have this, but because I sit in a crappy chair. [MSNBC]
As far as red carpet personalities go, there's something refreshing about Kim Kardashian — and her shapely figure. So why is she shilling a workout DVD which promotes changing your body for fashion trends?
We were beginning to worry about the editors of DailyCandy. There were mentions of bacterial infections. Black Croc spats. Had they abandoned their Cosmopolitan-swilling ways, we wondered? But today's editions of the cloying, consumption-promoting newsletter illustrate that the girls may have their mojo back: There's…
But you can totally sound like you read the Wall Street Journal if you stick with us! (For talking to Dana Vachon types, natch!) Today we wondered, will LVMH's loss of Heidi Slimane roil global stock exchanges once investors realize how traumatized everyone in New York is about it? No! LVMH stock seems to approve of…
