Car and Driver: Driven! 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe: Form and Fashion

Remember when skinny jeans re-emerged a few years back? Largely out of vogue since their heyday of the ‘80s era, when punk and metal scenesters adopted the calf-hugging denims as a reaction to the elephant-bell-bottom jeans of the 1970s, their home-crafted origins often resulted in what appeared to be a pair of rather sloppily tailored denim jodhpurs, comically undermining their objective as fashion statement. Twenty-first-century skinny jeans, on the other hand, are the product of mass-market demand. Offering stylish and comparatively conservative tailoring right off the rack, these duds offer buyers a painless way to get in on the latest trend while bolstering profits for their makers. READ MORE ››

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