The American snowboard team's uniform were either Cobain-era grunge (a gateway fashion to hipster) or the same outfit everyone in Williamsburg wears, but baggy and warm-looking. Designed by Burton, the snowpants aren't actually jeans, just "overlaid images of worn denim" via a fancy-pants (pun!) fashion technique called sublimation, explains ever-explaining website Slate. Ergo: Jowpants. At the flower ceremony for men's half-pipe, Americans Shaun White and Scott Lago wore theirs, while Finland's Peetu Piiroinen sported a jaunty plaid of his own. [AP pic]















