OVER THE winter break in my sons’ last year at NYU, Darling Son A announced that he intended to make something called swants and needed my help, to which I probably replied something like “WTF?”
But DS A pointed me to an online tutorial about how to turn a sweater into pants, as well as another video with a group clad in swants doing a kind of performance art piece to a song by Bjork. Sadly, the tutorial from West Knits is no longer available, but here’s a link to a brief news story about the swants trend (which more or less came and went in 2013, the year DS A fell prey to it):
“Hot New Internet Trend: Swants” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6sAPy7IdZk
The performance video is also still online:
“Swants Dance” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71c_7MLq1ms
DS A and I managed to complete his swants project before he returned to school that winter, although I’m not sure how often (if ever) he wore them afterward—and somehow I don’t think that any of us need worry about a swants craze sweeping the nation!