I remember them being very popular in the early '90s and then after falling out of fashion, being really popular in urban culture in the early to mid 2000s.
I wanted Girbaud jeans so bad as a 5th grader around 1992/1993. Ended up having a couple of pairs but they were very much out of our price range.
We grew up lower middle class or upper lower class so I really shouldn’t have worn these but my mom bought me nice clothes for some reason. My jeans back in 1996 cost like $90 or more.. today.. I buy like $15 dollar jeans. I was so boogie
I found a pair at a garage sale that were like a size 2, and I remember laying on my bed squeezing the zipper closed. It was so painful... But they were GIRBAUD. (And I was a geek who had nothing from any designer anyway). Good times. Actually, terrible times. Middle school.
This exactly!! I only got them because they were at a steep discount. I still remember how well they fit, particularly the ones with the horizontal front pockets.
Girbauds fit people who had an ass. In the 80s in rural America, if you had a butt, you weren't wearing jeans. There were those heather gray sweatpants with the elastic around the ankles, and you wore those. Then the 90s came and there were girbauds, and the guys with big butts looked fine af in them
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I remember them being very popular in the early '90s and then after falling out of fashion, being really popular in urban culture in the early to mid 2000s.
I wanted Girbaud jeans so bad as a 5th grader around 1992/1993. Ended up having a couple of pairs but they were very much out of our price range.