JEANS

[highlyeccentric]

Fact: Jeans were so much better in my day. Srsly. Next time flares are in fashion, I am buying a LIFETIME SUPPLY. I had this great pair when I was fifteen, sixteen: low-rise, fit like a second skin from the hips to just above the knee and then flared out. Light blue with these cool pale sripes down the thighs, too. Very HELLO ARSE AND THIGHS, but with the flare to balance things out. I actually only threw them out last summer, even though they'd completely stretched and faded. WHATEVER. IF I LIKE CLOTHES I WEAR THEM UNTIL THEY FALL APART.

JEANS THESE DAYS SUCK. I tried on a stack of straight-cut and boot-cuts, but the only things I could find which are close-fitting enough in the arse/thighs department were skinnies. So I have skinnies. They are not *bad*. They are pretty damn awesome in the arse department - I think the only better jeans I've had since flares went out of fashion were these lovely stretch bootcuts I bought in first or second year, and which have since a) mysteriously become too small and b) completely fallen apart. Nevertheless, I resent the fact that one can no longer get jeans which are close-cut on the arse and nicely flared at the bottom. All the bootcuts these days are looser in the top half than they ought to be.

Jeans were better in *my* day.

Comments

[cursor-mundi.livejournal.com]

Have you tried trouser jeans? I don't know if these things are popular anywhere but the 'States, but the ones I've found fit well in the bum and thigh and then fall straight down from just above the knee--not flares, not boot-cut (which, BTW, does not accommodate my boots! *angry glare at jeans designers*), but with that nice balance between displaying your bum to perfection and not making you look like an unbalanced pear.

And while we're kevetching about jeans, may I just add that it is increasingly difficult to find jeans that fit my waist and my bum? (And my waist and bum are NOT CHANGING. Much. I swear!) You'd think that the designers would realize that women GET NARROWER at the waist, not bigger, but I swear to God, 95% of the jeans that fit my hips and ass have this tremendous gap in the back that you could fit a basketball into; I call it the "police woman's gap," because clearly that's where you should be sticking your service revolver. >:(

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you mean by trouser jeans, actually. I have a nice pair of cords which were excellent to the bum and looser from mid-thigh, but my bum has experienced a circumferential increase and they're now a bit too small.

[cursor-mundi.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.youlookfab.com/2007/02/09/the-trouser-jean/), these are trouser jeans. They're jeans that are cut like dress pants, so you get the comfortable denim material but a more adult (and forgiving) cut. It's been my experience that they're more realistic about thigh, hip, and bum measurements as well. They've been insanely popular here in the US for about a year or two, and I hope they don't go away--they're nice enough that I can actually consider wearing them to teach in, and I'm always on the lookout for stuff that looks good but doesn't inspire my students to try and ask me out for a drink.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Hmm, they look nice. I've seen some things which resemble *some* of the ones in the examples - I think they'd be a variant of wide-cuts, here.

[cursor-mundi.livejournal.com]

Very much like that, except "wide cut" in the US is more "boyfriend" style--slouchy and ill-fitted, and the trouser jean is supposed to look fitted. I know of no one who doesn't look good in these things. They're a bit too formal for every-day casual wear, though I find the idea of "denim as formal" deeply amusing.

[(Anonymous)]

try jeanswest? I think they often have a flares option. maybe Dotti too? Both are huge dollars, at least to me. But I understand that in normal-people terms they are at the cheaper end of decent-quality things.otherwise a good seamstress/trer and a pair of jeans a size too big, or with a baggy cut. and then...TAILOR.

I hates skinny jeans because they look good on relatively curve-free girls, but make other girls look like cartoon mice. and the muffin-top effect is boo.

Also agree with post above about police-woman's crack. I am aussie size six or seven (which is what, size 2 or 0 in US), and not actually very skinny. Just little. I am size 8 in vintage stuff and I swear I used to be size 8 IN MY TEENS (and I've gotten a bit bigger, if anything, since then). SIZES ARE SHRINKING! And I have a bum. So jeans fit my bum, mostly fit my thighs, and have a gap at my belly. And Most Size 6 women DO NOT HAVE BIG BELLIES.

I understand that our guts are expanding in general and our body shapes are changing. But surely, they could make clothes for women with bums and waists, especially since people go around talking about how weight around the waist is often less healthy than around the hips, and the waist used to be thought such a sexy thing.

Sorry, i'm not hating on thicker waists, just wishing there was a bigger range of jeans.

Love, apes