Has fashion hit its rock bottoms?
One-legged jeans, costing an arm and a leg at a toe-curling $440, are kicking up dust amongst clotheshorses everywhere.
While fans of the half-shorts-half-pants hail them the cream of the cropped, critics of the (kinda) cut-offs are praying their virality is, well, short-lived.
“Possibly the most controversial jeans on the internet,” influencer Kristy Sarah, 29, said while squeezing into the avant-garde gear for her 16 million TikTok fans — and her naysaying husband, Desmond — to see.
“Nobody’s wearing that,” Desmond quipped in the clip.
And a few equally unenthused folks online agreed, deeming the denims “weird” and “ridiculous.”
Carson Kressley, Emmy-winning tastemaker of “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” fame, echoed similar sentiments to The Post, saying: “Let’s hope this trend falls short and doesn’t have a leg to stand on.”
But the odd-ball bottoms, an offering from French fashion house Coperni, aren’t just the butt of a couple cheeky jokes.
They’re actually rising as the season’s hottest must-haves.
Touted as the “One-leg denim trouser,” per the luxe label’s site, the vintage blue cotton jeans are currently sold out in all available sizes — extra small, small and medium.
Do-it-yourself fashionistas who can’t get their hands on hot pants are even yanking pairs of their tried-and-true blue jeans from their closets and scissoring off one leg to participate in the topsy-turvy trend.
Turning the fashion world on its head seems to have been part of Coperni’s master plan.
“Designed with a high waist, the shape fuses beachy shorts with a single-leg bootcut silhouette, marking a radical departure from tradition,” explains the couturier.
And it’s not the first the brand’s tried its hand at asymmetry.
It tapped model Amelia Gray, 23, to slay its runway in a pantsuit featuring the half-and-half slacks in October. Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton, too, debuted similar styles late last fall.
But now, as denim jeans reign supreme as the en vogue togs of 2025 — thanks to trendsetters like Kendrick Lamar, who recently revived the flare jeans craze— clothes makers are being forced to think outside of the box and inside the minds of digital tastemakers.
“Fashion, which used to be driven by designers and the culture, is now, in many ways, driven by social media,” said Kressley.
“We [are seeing] more and more [of the unusual] but not necessarily better ideas,” he continued, suggesting that most ultra-bizarre designs are mere “click-bait” used to garner “attention and engagement in hopes to drive sales.”
And when it comes to the one-legged look, the fashion forecaster says the look-at-me jeans don’t stand half a chance.
“I hope these are always 50% off!.”
