"When you're wearing skinny jeans to make yourself skinny that's not the point," Dr. Nicholas Morrissey, vascular surgeon with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center ...

Dr. Farid set out to test the technique. He and Sophie Nightingale, a postdoctoral researcher, bought 100 pairs of jeans from thrift stores in Berkeley and took a photo of each long, vertical seam.

Give your shorts permission to linger into fall (and beyond) with a boost from Dr. Martens and a little peek-a-boo sock. Trousers have become the happy medium between jeans and sweats. If you're ...