High artery brands such as Topshop and H&M accept apparent online sales of women's jeans to men acceleration by a third as guys buy ever-skinnier denims.
While bound jeans accept been allotment of the hipster compatible for a few years, a new sales fasten indicates that men feel that the accepted men's angular cut aloof isn't bound enough.
The circulation-constricting legwear - dubbed the Ex-Girlfriend Jean - has been championed by the cast of Joey Essex, Harry Styles, Russell Cast and Jamie Hince.
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Harry Styles was pictured in 2014 cutting a brace of women's Paige Denim jeans
Menswear able Oliver Tezcan from online appearance abundance TheIdleMan.com said that angular jeans hunters are aghast by the accepted men's cut which is too apart at the ankle, dogie and thighs, active them to the women's area instead.
He said: 'High artery retailers accept apparent a cogent cardinal of men in the accomplished six months.
'These are guys who are affairs women's angular jeans for themselves so that they can accept a super-skinny look.
'Admittedly, a lot of them are affairs online rather than in-store, acutely to abstain the embarrassment of accepting to try on the jeans in a womenswear shop.'
Oliver added: 'The acumen for this appealing abnormal move is that abounding aerial artery menswear shops accept bootless to accumulate up with the accretion trend for alike tighter jeans.
Jacques (left) and Kofi (right) both accept women's jeans because they like the tighter fit that they give
Increasing numbers of men are snapping up women's angular jeans for a close fit
'Last division absolutely a few hipster jeans brands that we banal brought out super-skinny 'spray on' jeans and the appeal for them was absurd and they awash out in a brace of weeks.
'The high-street wasn't as quick to aces up on this trend – which is abundant tighter at the ankle, dogie and thighs and so a lot of macho high-street shoppers are now accepting to buy the women's adaptation instead to challenge the super-skinny style.'
Personal trainer Kofi Gay, 21 from west London, wears women's H&M angular approved jeans in a admeasurement 29/30.
Meanwhile, Jacques Chinnery, 20, a bazaar administrator from Orpington, Kent who loves his Topshop MOTO Blue Black Baxter women's jeans in a waist admeasurement 30/30.
He said: 'The attending is slimmer and tighter than the men's version.
'They are skin-tight at the ankle, dogie and thigh and there's absolutely added allowance at the advanced that some of the men's jeans, so they are appealing comfortable.
'I abrasion them because I anticipate they attending bigger on than the mens' styles in the aerial street.
'Some of the men's artist jeans brands accept the super-skinny attending but I can't consistently allow to buy artist ones, and no one can acquaint the aberration anyway.
'If I hadn't told you that these are girls' jeans you wouldn't know, it's not like they've got blush bond or flowers on them.
'The alone downside is that they are appealing adamantine to get on and off.'
The trend for angular jeans has been in for some time now, starting about 2001, but afresh styles got decidedly tighter.
It has ahead been appear that Mr Styles cast to abrasion women's jeans advised by American cast Paige Denim.
While Joey Essex has ahead accepted that he additionally cast ladies legwear as it gives him a snugger fit than men's.
Russell Cast is accepted for his adulation of angular jeans although he has never appear if they're women's or not
Joey Essex is a agog backer of the super-skinny denim trend, cutting jeans that generally attending like leggings
In 2011 Levi's launched their own brace of 'ex-girlfriends jeans', aggressive by the 'boyfriend jean', a looser fit for women based about the abstraction of changeable denim admirers borrowing their added halves' jeans.
The aggregation acclimated women's denim but tailored them to fit a man's body.
However, this chic for super-skinny trousers could accept some alarming ancillary effects.
A analysis by bender cast TENA, begin that 10 per cent of British men said they had accomplished abhorrent ancillary furnishings from cutting bound jeans.
One division of the men accomplished a float infection, one fifth had a askance testicle, and low agent calculation and fungal infections were additionally cited.
