KS: Good Bless Low-Rise Jeans
Katrina
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Notes On A Napkin
: Maybe it’s the way I’m shaped (square), but before low-rise jeans
came
along, I was a woman-without-country in the denim department. The
horrible jeans of the 80’s (designed by Gloria Vanderbilt and her ilk)
assumed that everyone had curvy hips and tiny, nipped-in waists, a
shape still celebrated in the present-day construction of Mom Jeans.
(And let’s face it–Mom Jeans are just 80’s jeans that have morphed a
bit to accommodate the ..ahem.. blossoming post-partum form.) The fact
is, some of us don’t have tiny, nipped-in waists, no matter what we
weigh. In that dark time, we had to choose between wearing trousers
that fit in the waist but flapped around the hips like a pair of
mountie pants, or jeans that fit the hips but pinched the body nearly
in half at the waist, leaving button and zipper impressions so deep
they could be cast in plaster. More: 10
Things I’m Probably Too Old For But Enjoy Anyway
Question: What is something you’re probably too old for but enjoy anyway?
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