Embellished jeans are the rage this season. Again, nothing new here. In the sixties many young people were decorating their jeans with anything from applied patches, to hand embroidered designs, to drawing on them with a felt tip marker or even a “Bic” pen. The Woodstock counterculture adopted the working man's attire and adapted it with homegrown decorations.
In the 1970's, the sharp and clean cut disco fashion is imported from Europe, promptly displacing the unkempt hippy look. It was a time of tight bellbottoms with refined pocket decorations. The 1980's saw a comeback of the traditional cowboy image, metal studs and all.
It was in 1999, however, that Tom Ford presented his frayed,
embroidered, low rise Gucci's in the Paris catwalks, going for a mere $3,500! The term "luxe hippie" is coined, and denim would never be perceived the same way again. This induction set the stage for the jeans revolution that we are living today.
Like so many other objects, the simple egalitarian blue jeans has reached levels of ornamentation (and price) that were unimaginable just a decade ago. The quality and sophistication of the decoration that we have seen these last couple of seasons are amazing! Possibly too much for some tastes, and pocket books, but sometimes trends have to swing far in one direction in order to eventually find their proper place.
Skirts are an age old clothing tradition not only for India but for other countries of Asia too apart from western countries. Men and women both had been wearing one or the other form of leg dress such as the lungi, kanga and sarong in countries like China, Thailand, Malaysia and other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. In India too, women have been using lehengas which hang down from waistline till ankles. Beginning in1915, western skirts were long enough to touch the ground. The fashionable skirts became short in 1920s and then long again in 1930s. The cycle of skirts becoming longer and shorter kept on going till it became shortest of all during the 1960s. However, the Indian skirts have always favored the trends of being lengthy with a few exceptions in mid 1900s when the Bollywood actors brought the trend of short skirts. However, the common women of India never liked to wear skirts that were shorter than the knee length.
The term tank tops were derived from the tops men wore in swimming pools. The 1970s version of the tank top was made from cotton and had slogans or decals on them. The most popular, however, still remained the solid white tank top. 
With the weather heating up across the country, flip flops are coming out of storage, skirts are getting shorter, and, surprise surprise: necklines are getting lower!
Low rise jeans does not refer to a “fit”, it is a specific cut. As is the case with boot cut jeans, it is a matter of “shape”, of "pattern", and is very widely misused. Any fit can have a regular or low cut waist, although not all will work well. Jeans with a low cut waist are almost always a tight fit and most often have boot cut or flared leg cuts. Although you are now beginning to see low cut skinnies too. 
In the 1970's, the sharp and clean cut disco fashion is imported from Europe, promptly displacing the unkempt hippy look. It was a time of tight bellbottoms with refined pocket decorations. The 1980's saw a comeback of the traditional cowboy image, metal studs and all.
