"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 ...

"There are many, many patients who have skin rashes, especially on their lower abdomen from the nickel on the snaps and buttons on their jeans," Dr. Crutchfield told them. Nickel, a silvery-white ...

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.