Does fashion a killer? Well, precisely this is what we expect a critic to make, or even some eccentric designer that has his models walk in surreal shoes while dressed in shower curtains. Still, it’s the doctors who are saying it, as a new study comes to show that wearing skinny jeans can cause the tingling thigh syndrome. According to this recent study, more and more women complain of weird sensations in their legs, but only after wearing too tight jeans. Expert says that this really happens because the material applies considerable pressure and cuts off the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, which causes the numbing and tingling sensation throughout the thigh. The combination of tight jeans with high heels is all the more dangerous in this sense, since wearing heels forces the woman to push the pelvis forward and, thus, to apply more pressure on the nerve.

Nerve in some people is susceptible to compression. It is a pure sensory nerve – it doesn’t go to muscles or provide strength. Anything that is tight around there could potentially compress the nerve that goes there and the nerve runs from the outside of the pelvis and through the thigh. It’s not only women who wear skinny jeans that are exposed to this rather unpleasant sensation, since it is an occupational hazard for construction workers and policemen, who usually have heavy belts hung around their waistline. Pregnant women and obese people also suffer from this syndrome, but it’s with women in tight jeans that the number of complaints with doctors has increased considerably in recent months.