Thankfully, lagenlook is not popular for the mainstream of HI. It you wear it around here, someone may mistake you for being homeless and likely overheated.
Never heard of that look either…curious like others if it’s regional. Just looks matronly. My hair…argh. Not straight or curly. Straight from the scalp to ears than ugly no uniformed waves from there. When I don’t wash it for 2-3 days it goes very straight, but doesn’t look nice as its in layers. I normally blow it all out, use big plastic rollers for volume at roots and curling iron for bottom layers Bleh. Wish it were one or the other.
I just looked it up too. That’s a lot of extra fabric!
It reminded me of how much I hated balloon hem skirts. Thank goodness they’ve gone away for now.
In keeping with the lips comment upthread, that bigger isn’t always better, the same goes for over the top non-medically necessary breast augmentation. I totally get the desire for bigger breasts, though for me I don’t want to have any surgery in my life that isn’t medically necessary, but if the augmentation doesn’t look proportional it doesn’t look right to me. Some of the thin young moms that frequent my workplace look like they are going to fall over. Though I suspect their husbands and most men might disagree with me.
Never heard of lagenlook either. Yeuch.
An example of lagenlook is Stevie Nicks, 5’1". She has worn it forever, and I thought she looked wonderful in Coven, which I just binge watched on Netflix at the suggestion of one of my sons… basically for the New Orleans houses, but Nicks was a wonderful surprise.
It’s sort of a lifestyle choice. photos: https://www.google.com/search?q=magnolia+pearl&biw=1280&bih=668&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij-qP86KfKAhWE4CYKHYVlBSUQsAQIMw&dpr=1.5
Here is a site where you can buy it: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kati-Koos-The-Store/173344059350384
It’s the opposite of skinny jeans, with flats and a cute top. I like this look, but I like all the looks. There are literally no looks I don’t like on someone.
A couple of the bright young things at the hair salon I visited today were wearing lagenlook with their tattoos and face piercings. I suspect a lot of what they were wearing was thrift store vintage rather than designer tatters.
eta: I might as well add I’ve worn this look for most of my adult life. Lately I’ve been losing some layers,trying to age gracefully, but after seeing Nicks, I may rethink that. My husband jokes I always have on at least 5 or 6 layers. Because he’s used to me, he thinks other women look unusual.
I’ve worn it all over the world.
I’m perplexed too. I’d never heard of the word lagenlook, had to google, and honestly have not really seen anyone dress like that. I’m ok if I never see it again.
I don’t know what the Coven is, but I presume it’s about witches, so if it’s what witches wear, I’m ok passing on that trend.
I Googled lagenlook too and wasn’t impressed. Seriously,does anyone look good in harem pants? Besides Barbara Eden?
Another one who had to google lagenlook.
I’ll pass.
I’m sure it looks good on the right people and bodies but has never been fashionable in my world.
This co markets to plus sized women:
http://www.lagenlookclothinguk.co.uk/collections/clothing
If you are tall and have long legs like the models… maybe. Otherwise, a normal height plus sized person will look like a ball of yarn with boots sticking out of it. 
I am pretty sure the point of it is anti-fashion. Rei Kawakubo does lagenlook. The Olsen twins wear this look. In black it frequently looks goth or steam punk. In colors it can look urban shepherdess or farmer romantic.
I’m not defending it… just explaining… fwiw
No need to defend; it’s a free country, people can wear what they like. I just a) never heard the expression (and doesn’t sound like I’m alone) and b) really have no personal desire to look like the Olsen twins, goth / steam punk, urban shepherdess or farmer romantic (or witch). It seems more costume-y to me. But again, whatever. It doesn’t seem as though the look is flattering to most figures, but perhaps the wearers don’t really care, which is their prerogative.
Help! A mouse ate through my lagenlook!
As a 5’4" woman - long / maxi dresses look horrendous on me. Will never do, no matter how fashionable they are in a given (summer) season.
My look right now, though, is heavy on the long underwear! Brrrr, it’s cold out - and in!
Oh my! That thing is just so wrong for so many reasons!!
right - body flattering is beside the point. It’s dressing against the idea of flattering. As I said… a life style choice of sorts and probably sort of a pretentious one. It can have philosophical underpinnings… so again it can be a bit pretentious even when it isn’t twee
Harem pants… Why??? Why would anyone want to look like they are wearing depends?
I like the 80’s era Rei Kawakubo/ Comme des Garcons, Issey Miyake, and Yohji Yamamoto / avant garde Japanese versions of these looks. Your mention of Rei Kawakubo brings back memories of the impossibly cool people who would wear her clothes to museum openings in the 80s. But the look was quite different from what is being called lagenlook here.
Yes. People are looking at mass market trickle down versions of the platonic ideal.
Even though the word is European, I really do think it all began in Japan but got mixed up with Laura Ashley somewhere along the way.
Eileen Fisher did harem pants this last year. They aren’t for me, but she didn’t exactly invent them even this time round. It’s an interpretation of someone’s runway look from seasons ago. Owens?