Skants
Oh, this is fantastic. Really, I was getting so tired of pants with crotches in them. Sure, it gets a little drafty, but at least you can do upskirt videos in the winter.
UPDATE: This entry led to our now legendary skants contest. Hundreds of people sent pictures of themselves wearing shirts as pants. We still don’t know why.
April 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Is the point just to fall on your face? ‘Cause if it is I can do that just fine on my own, without these ugly abomanations.
April 10, 2011 at 4:45 pm
I think the point would be to have an excuse to have a pair of pants you can awkwardly get laid in. If the dude was blind anyway.
April 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Oh, yes, those would frame my knee fat perfectly.
April 10, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Holy Canoli – Skants were an entire year ago?!?!? I would’ve sworn it was maybe 3 months ago.
April 10, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Scants are now and forever. Amen.
April 29, 2011 at 2:40 am
AMEN!!!
April 10, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I know…. remember the turkey skants?
April 11, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Skants are what got me so hooked on Regretsy. I remember laughing SO HARD my husband thought I was losing it (he was right – damn, he’s ALWAYS RIGHT).
April 10, 2011 at 4:34 pm
First jeggings, now this. Pants are de-evolving faster than the Etsy staff.
April 10, 2011 at 4:38 pm
OMG It’s been a year already? What the hell happened to the time? Oh wait, it was transformed into a hideous clock, that’s right.
April 10, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Somebody needs a cat clock made entirely of used computer bits!
April 10, 2011 at 4:39 pm
I still have the toilet paper I won!
It sits on my shelf and I point it out to people who come to my house.
April 10, 2011 at 5:54 pm
No one likes a bragger.
April 10, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Oh My Fekking Hell…I didn’t know these were REAL! I thought it was just a clever, snarky, Regretsy invention!!!!!
$780?????? To wear a shirt as pants??? REALLY?
April 11, 2011 at 5:49 am
Neither did I. But I should have known better. Etsy makes all kinds of things possible.
April 10, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Oh dear God. I actually LIKE those… They’re kind of cyber-gothy… But…not for that price. I wouldn’t pay more than 50 bucks, if even that.
But seriously! I LIKE those! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?! I’m not drinking, I’m not even on Vicodin… Had plenty of sleep, think my (in)sanity is mostly intact, and I’m pretty sure my eyesight is pretty okay. Sure, I have glasses, but still! I can still see!
…should I go see a therapist?
April 10, 2011 at 4:47 pm
if you draw little faces on your knees will they look like conjoined twins?
April 10, 2011 at 4:51 pm
oops, that was meant for general reply, not reply to Druston – geez, I need sleep
April 10, 2011 at 4:53 pm
that’s happened to me before….i think the site fucks up. feel free to sleep tho.
April 10, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I thought you were giving RainbowCunt therapeutic advice.
April 10, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Yes. Yes, you should seek help sooner, rather than later.
April 10, 2011 at 5:18 pm
But if I seek help later, I have a better chance at scarring some poor, poor therapist for the rest of his or her life! That might be MUCH more fun and totally worth my own deepening insanity.
April 10, 2011 at 5:42 pm
No, you don’t need therapy. You’ve just become slightly unmoored and need a change of scenery. Go browse the Lord and Taylor site advertised here and come back with your perspective refreshed.
April 10, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Actual pants based on these might look cool, on the right person. The knee-hole is pretty off-putting, to me. But my biggest problem with them is how they’d constrict your movement when you try to walk. I don’t think they’d stretch at all.
But for what it’s worth, it’s way better as skants than as a blouse.
April 29, 2011 at 2:42 am
wrong – the knees do stretch dude…. there’s ribbing in the knee bit…
April 10, 2011 at 4:49 pm
So um, second annual skants contest yes?
April 11, 2011 at 6:47 am
please please please please please
April 10, 2011 at 4:53 pm
i was just thinking to myself where can i get a good vintage worsted wool in houndstooth check…
April 10, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Skants… $780.ºº –
Watching the skants dance-off….
Priceless
April 10, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Every time I look at this site (frequently, that is) I wonder what is WRONG with people.
April 10, 2011 at 5:04 pm
The titles of the contest posts made me giggle so much.
April 10, 2011 at 5:15 pm
I’m always complaining how it’s so much easier to find shirts than pants. I guess I should quit my bitching and make lemonade like the etsy-tard.
And get a cool $780 in the process.
April 10, 2011 at 5:21 pm
in the original pic, i especially enjoy that just above the skants her tshirt says ‘RUN’. don’t walk.
the winner is truly an artist. the ceramic frog really places her above the competition.
April 10, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Skants on the ground/skants on the ground/ lookin’ like a fool with your skants on the ground
April 10, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Oh good lord. The day they start wearing skants hanging low is the day I book my flight off this crazy planet.
Uh oh. Is that the pitter patter of an approaching trend I hear? RUN!
April 10, 2011 at 5:47 pm
These are cool and all, but they’re WAY overpriced. For $780, I can buy a car. Looking hot, transportation, AND a place to live.
April 10, 2011 at 6:40 pm
And then there was this post, “From the Mailbag,” in September:
http://www.regretsy.com/2010/09/22/from-the-mailbag-26/
Someone in the fashion industry takes their cues from Etsy.
April 10, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Shit, that thing could have started out as a Cosby sweater.
April 10, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Skants! I love skants!
April 10, 2011 at 7:09 pm
What has been seen cannot be unseen. I’m tempted to wash my eyeballs in acid based on the fabric alone, but I’d really be hampered in my work without reading.
And $800? My wedding dress cost less.
April 11, 2011 at 2:08 am
After re-reading a few times, I conclude you must mean the dissolving-of-things kind of acid. The “based on the fabric” led me astray repeatedly. The kind of acid you describe by molarity is not the kind that fabric makes me think of first.
Although you’d probably still have trouble reading if you bathed your eyeballs in the other kind, too. Stupid uppity alphabet and its interpretive dance routines…
April 10, 2011 at 7:41 pm
These skants would look fantabulous with the “tromp l’euil” shirt from the previous post. Preferably on Sad Hipster.
(cough*photoshoppers*cough)
April 10, 2011 at 7:55 pm
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April 29, 2011 at 2:44 am
wrong
April 10, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Now I know what those old school writers mean when they write “So-and-so looked askance.”
And it’s not pretty.
April 10, 2011 at 8:20 pm
I skant hardly wait to try these myself.
April 10, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Skants is what truely won me over on Regretsy.
April 10, 2011 at 9:40 pm
fucking hilarious, i closed my eyes and took a swig of beer before i clicked on the winner, and i was well rewarded.
i know what i’m wearing to my cousins wedding this spring!
April 10, 2011 at 10:23 pm
aw, i had forgotten all about skants. this brings a lot of memories back.
memories that were rightfully murdered. there are going to be three or four boxes of grenache necessary to rekill them, now, goddammit.
thank you, helen, for that opportunity.
April 10, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I can’t explain the phenomenon either. But when I started seeing pictures of the skants wearing mob, I caught the fever myself. So I put on a blue sweater with a star on it, upside-down of course, and BEGGED my husband to take my picture. He refused and begged ME to remove the skants. What. The. Fuck.
April 11, 2011 at 10:32 am
Ok… I gave you a green thumbs up because I like your user name. Does that make me shallow? I also visited you blog and the name makes so much more sense now. I also love your comment… Your husband should have taken the picture just to use it as his computer desktop.
April 11, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Don’t know if it makes you shallow–and I’m seriously not one to judge!–but even if it does, I still like your blog. So much so, that if I ever get one of those newfangled blogroll contraptions, I’ll probably put it up there. If the world hasn’t ended by then.
April 10, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Can I suggest the joys of crossing your arms inside your sweater and putting the ‘wrong ‘ hand out the wristband as the next big fashion thing?
April 11, 2011 at 4:16 am
I’m proud to say that I was a runner up in the skants contest.
I literally took the sweater I was wearing off my torso, flipped it upside-down and went outside to take my skants photos (there’s snow on the deck and I’m wearing red gloves).
I can’t believe it has been a year now. WHERE DOES THE TIME GO!?
And now we’ve got gloveless fingers…
April 11, 2011 at 5:48 am
I had totally forgotten how much fun we had with skants. I think these might be my favorite Regretsy thing ever.
April 11, 2011 at 6:06 am
Want to know what’s funny, but not really?
Pants like these were popular in Europe when I was there in 2009.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28135683@N04/4079395096/in/set-72157622615898759
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28135683@N04/4078637471/in/set-72157622615898759/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28135683@N04/4078637747/in/set-72157622615898759
April 11, 2011 at 10:43 am
Those pants look like they were smuggling adult diapers full of hashish across Europe using counterfeit Euro-rail passes.
(I know, my comment makes no sense to me either but it was time for my free association word puzzle for the day.)
April 11, 2011 at 10:53 am
Musta been a bad batch of hashish to come up with something as horrifying as these pants.
April 29, 2011 at 2:52 am
that’s funny – that’s when i finished my design degree, but in australia…
April 11, 2011 at 7:40 am
It’s for women who say “I don’t know what to wear. I want to wear pants, but I still want to be felt up in public.”
April 11, 2011 at 8:00 am
I personally like giving the perverts on the subway more of a challenge.
It’ll be that much sweeter if they have to work for it.
April 11, 2011 at 8:55 am
Technically, the shirt ones are Shants.
April 11, 2011 at 10:54 am
You mean shan’ts. lol
April 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Ya, punctuation is definitely needed!
April 11, 2011 at 9:38 am
I have no point to make, only an observation:
April 11, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Which is: White sunglasses make everyone look good?
April 11, 2011 at 9:38 am
There once was a man named Lance
Who hadn’t a clean pair of pants
He said “What could be better
Than my legs in a sweater?”
And thus, the invention of Skants.
April 11, 2011 at 10:04 am
Whenever you make posts about skants, I get this little amended Mystery Science Theater 3000 ditty running through my head:
Skants! Skants! Sing all praises of skants!
April 11, 2011 at 10:16 am
I’m just trying to figure out how someone would walk in these.
April 11, 2011 at 3:35 pm
“ENTIELY ONE OFF GARMENT”
thank god.
April 12, 2011 at 10:02 am
Turn your smile into a frown, turn your whole world upside-down,
JUMPER-PANTS!
April 29, 2011 at 2:51 am
man…. as the maker of the original skants, and of the skants remix – i can honestly say, the skants competition was the most hilarious fun ever! although it took a while for some regretsarians to feel comfortable with a “maker” laughing along with them, in the end it was all a giant giggle fest – ENJOYED IT TO THE MAX!!! xxx my fav was the turkey skants man (PRICELESS)
May 14, 2011 at 5:29 am
It’s a fucin’ UPSIDE DOWN SWEATSHIRT..