Hip(ster) Hip(ster) Hooray, Pant Rolling Is The New Popped Collar!

We love styling trends. This 2008 (both seasons, though more predominately for Spring 200 the styling trend is rolled pants. Let's clarify the technique first, that is, this is not folding nor tight rolling. The look is a bit messier, a little less type-A, and makes you appear as if you're two seconds away from jumping into the ocean like a crazy person. This Spring 2008, the young designers jumped on this trend (Alexander Wang, United Bamboo, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Preen, Y-3, and Sari Gueron to name a few), possibly out of a dependence on the skinny jean and a reluctance to embrace the new wide leg silhouette. Expect, for that reason, that those who wear skinny jeans will follow suit in transition. We love this trend because it makes us feel like a nerdy English tomboy (academic and rosy cheeked) and effects our gait such that we feel like stirring up schoolboy mischief. Our gallery of the trend, from Spring (and little Fall) 2008, below.