While watching the new Darren Aronofsky movie, Caught Stealing , I found myself completely ignoring the plot and focussing almost entirely on the jeans . The jeans in the film are immaculate. It’s set in the late ’90s, and the costuming gets the jeans just right, with Zoë Kravitz and Austin Butler slouching around Brooklyn in beaten up mid-rise Levi’s worn low with a belt, like a couple of sexy dirtbags. “This was before low-waisted jeans came in,” costume designer Amy Westcott explained to The Cut , “so jeans didn’t fit the same. They were a dumpier fit.”

I don’t know about “dumpier fit” – Zoë and Austin look so good in this film it actually hurts the eyes. But all of this got me thinking about why today’s version of “’90s style” often doesn’t look quite the same as that of a

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