The jeans I want do not exist. All mid or high rise pants are either “relaxed” in the hips and thighs, or skinny straight-legged pencil legs! Low rise fits me great in the hips and thighs, but sits practically at my crotch and has a gigantic gap at the top, which I could fit a bus into. I really don’t want people seeing literally all the way down into my crotch from the back on my pants. I despise pants that will not go past my lower hips bones and barely cover my butt crack. But I do NOT want them up around my waist under my ribs either….as someone else said, high waists make me feel like I can’t breathe…like they are squeezing my internal organs like a boa constrictor. Doesn’t anyone know how to make a lousy pair of jeans? There just seems to be no hope of me ever finding anything that will fit me the way I want it to. I hate every pair of jeans I’ve tried on for several years now.

The low rise of today are not like the hip huggers of the 60s-early 70s. My mother use to wear those, and they sat very reasonably at the top of her hips, just under her navel, so I wish people would stop comparing them and suggesting that low rise are somehow I return to that era. They aren’t. I would like to see the “real” hip huggers of the past made again, and not these repulsive, uncomfortable”crotch huggers” that no one but extremely short-waisted people with practically no torso can even got on.

I’ve completely given up on jeans and haven’t owned a pair for years. I wear yoga pants instead. Too bad, since I love jeans, so I’m pretty frustrated, as you can probably tell from my tone and attitude. Bodies are all different and instead of following fashion trends that force all people into a particular fit and style, we need to make a variety of jean styles, then everyone will be happy. Unfortunately that will never happen.