https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 08 May 2026 15:00:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans/page/2#post-930581 Sun, 12 May 2013 14:04:44 +0000 Jules 930581@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My neighbour, who is maybe 45-50 with a nice average weight type figure (curvy from waist to hip in her case), was wearing mom jeans yesterday. I think they do emphasize the curve from waist to hip but I don't feel that's necessarily a bad thing. Because she's not a hipster and the jeans were clearly unintentional, they do look dated, but not "unflattering" per se. No more so than skinnies on those of us with bigger hips and thighs, something the eye definitely had to adjust to after boot cuts. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans/page/2#post-930553 Sun, 12 May 2013 11:01:08 +0000 krishnidoux 930553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Suz have you tried one yet?<br /><br />I too have a long torso. I tried a pair and am on the fence. It takes some eye adjustment, even if it does make the torso look shorter.&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans/page/2#post-930078 Sat, 11 May 2013 12:03:31 +0000 Jules 930078@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes I saw a young, beautiful, slim, trendy woman recently in very high waisted skinnies with little oxfords and she looked amazing. Hers were dark wash. I'm not sure I'll ever admire acid wash.<br /> I also like high waisted drapey dress pants and low rise jeans do me no favours. My butt is what it is for my age and I'm past trying to make it look 15 years old. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans/page/2#post-930054 Sat, 11 May 2013 09:52:54 +0000 Irene 930054@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ My mom will be happy since she never stopped wearing high-waisted jeans (and she looks FABULOUS, she actually dresses young and fun with colorful and patterned blousons and scarves). But she has an apple-shaped body and low-waisted jeans don't do her any favour: she always complains how uncomfortable low-rise is on her. She never tucks and wears rather long tops (since she has a short torso and very long legs) so there is no long butt showing. I say 'whatever floats your boat and looks and feels best on you' here. And I actually think low-rise jeans are not meant for those with a muffin top, old or young, since a belly hanging over your pants is not my idea of a perfect fit.<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans/page/2#post-930033 Sat, 11 May 2013 06:24:51 +0000 Marley 930033@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Urban Outfitters has been selling them for quite awhile also!&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-930024 Sat, 11 May 2013 05:27:16 +0000 Suz 930024@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I must be peculiar. My eye could easily adjust to high waisted trousers. Admittedly, probably not the ones pictured. And yes...I do fear the long butt thing...but as someone with a long torso, I like the high waist, even if my waist is short (which it is) for the leg-lengthening possibilities.&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-929881 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:47:57 +0000 krishnidoux 929881@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ K, exactly. Exactly why I was so happy to see them going out of style some 20yrs ago.&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-929874 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:41:23 +0000 K. Period. 929874@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ The high waist doesn't bug me at all (unless they start forcing me to wear very high waists and they are pinchy tight). &nbsp;What I think makes them extremely unflattering is the width of the thigh and knee. &nbsp;They are wide all the way down to the widest part of the calves and then taper straight down into the ankle. I dislike the way they make legs look like tubes. &nbsp;Little wide ice cream cones. *shudder* &nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-929873 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:38:47 +0000 krishnidoux 929873@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Now imagine, all the way: powder blue thin high waist denim hot pants.&nbsp;You have to admit these are cool:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://lookbook.nu/look/198961-Topshop-Stripe-Crop-Top-High-Waisted-Denim-Shorts">http://lookbook.nu/look/198961.....nim-Shorts</a><br /><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-929871 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:35:00 +0000 Angie 929871@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ oops. Double post :(<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-929870 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:34:57 +0000 Angie 929870@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ American Apparel has been selling them for a while too! <br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-929869 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:32:26 +0000 krishnidoux 929869@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Gaylene, you are right. At the college where I teach many young girls have them, and I hallucinate because I am transported back in my own teenage years looking at them. True, with no hips it does look different, but there are also many girls with fuller figures proudly donning the style, especially in baby-blue thin and&nbsp;moulding&nbsp;denim. And I admit, as impossible as it sounds, it does flatter them, in a strange, antipodal way.<br /><br />This said, the powder-blue denim ones are VERY hard to pull off even among young girls, and most of them are a miss to my eye. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928876 Thu, 09 May 2013 18:35:58 +0000 Beth Ann 928876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Not looking for Mom jeans again, but I am ready for dressier, drapier, high waisted pants.&nbsp; I love pleated, drapey wide legs.&nbsp; I dread muffin top as much as long butt!<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928853 Thu, 09 May 2013 18:02:46 +0000 DonnaF 928853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Oh my!&nbsp; My DD also has a pair of Mom jeans style shorts which she loves for their girdling effect.&nbsp; I've never been a fan of low-rise jeans and pants on me, but that doesn't mean I embrace the Mom jeans look.<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928843 Thu, 09 May 2013 17:48:06 +0000 catgirl 928843@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Since I see these often in my world, I'm not unused to them, but I have NEVER liked them and don't think I could be convinced. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928779 Thu, 09 May 2013 16:44:08 +0000 Gaylene 928779@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Well, given the universal <i>ugh</i> from YLFers, I'm thinking younger set will be all over this look<i> BECAUSE</i> the jeans are getting the thumbs down from the likes of our crowd. Before dismissing the trend, check the pictures of models wearing those TopShop jeans. The look of high-waisted jeans on an ultra slim body with no hips is radically different than the look on the curvaceous Ms Monroe and, I'm thinking, most mom bodies. <br /><br />My only fear is if our eye starts to become re-accustomed to high-waisted jeans. Will the look then start trickling down to actual moms? Many people had a poisoned eye for low-rise skinnies when they first hit the market, yet most of us now consider them a "classic" silhouette. Same for ultra baggy, slouchy boyfriends. Maybe if enough of us started wearing mom jeans, or at least signaled our approval of them when shopping with our daughters, we'd scare off the trendsters before those jeans gain a foothold? Just a thought.<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928680 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:02:47 +0000 sarah 928680@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Horrid. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928676 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:42 +0000 Carole 928676@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What are they thinking? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928517 Thu, 09 May 2013 12:18:17 +0000 Ingunn 928517@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ These are not for me, I think! https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928511 Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:20 +0000 Scarlet 928511@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ sigh. Somehow I feel like it only a matter of time until this becomes the new (old) thing. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928500 Thu, 09 May 2013 11:41:01 +0000 Carla 928500@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't think so!</p> <p>I believe high waisted jeans were tried about 5 or 6 years ago, but the trend didn't stick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928482 Thu, 09 May 2013 10:57:39 +0000 Eliza 928482@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Been there, done that. Can't go back as it was never a great look for me and I am way past ironic with the look.&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928480 Thu, 09 May 2013 10:54:10 +0000 krishnidoux 928480@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ They're back!!! LOL<br /><br />Yes, got a Santana stretch pair of black jeans at Costco last week &nbsp;- am still debating if I should K or R - and was surprised at how hight the waist was. I think the trend may be going in this direction. Or trying to, anyway. But I admit, with ankle length, not full length, it looks better. You absolutely&nbsp;have to roll them à la Marilyn, and get them even shorter than what she is showing. Oh, yes, and tuck too.&nbsp;<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-928461 Thu, 09 May 2013 10:21:33 +0000 Anonymous 928461@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ That reminds me of a very funny blog post I found through pintrest. &nbsp;A very detailed description of what to look for when trying to avoid Mom jeans!<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.graspingforobjectivity.com/2009/03/mom-jeans-and-dreaded-long-butt.html">http://www.graspingforobjectiv.....-butt.html</a><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-927896 Wed, 08 May 2013 22:20:58 +0000 kellygirl 927896@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Lol! DD has a pair of high waisted shorts that make me cringe. "Longbutt" is exactly right, Claire! I will take a big ol' pass on these. I don't think even sale goggles could tempt me.<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-927894 Wed, 08 May 2013 22:17:24 +0000 Anonymous 927894@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Haha! My DD bought some 'vintage' ones that she cut into shorts. She loves the high waist, but for me,&nbsp;I dread the longbutt effect. My rear is already approaching the back of my knees, thankyouverymuch.&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-927886 Wed, 08 May 2013 22:11:59 +0000 Gaylene 927886@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Janet and Glory, is part of the mom-jeans appeal to the under-twenty set exactly because we wouldn't be caught dead in those jeans? I remember when the more that my mother disliked something, the more appealing it became to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-927855 Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:16 +0000 Thistle 927855@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ And after all the effort I went through to make sure I didn't end up with "mom" jeans.&nbsp; Wow, is tehre ever a picture where the camera doesn't love MM? She can pull off mom jeans!! https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-927852 Wed, 08 May 2013 21:38:19 +0000 shaz 927852@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ no, not for me but i'm sure the teens will be running round in them in no time at all&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/mom-jeans#post-927846 Wed, 08 May 2013 21:35:29 +0000 Glory 927846@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I saw someone wearing a pair of these yesterday. Not sure that it was intentional but I had to do a double take and it was a very &nbsp;young woman (under 20). She had her tshirt tucked in. A definate throwback. I agree with Janet - not a great look which is why I was so surprised at the age of the young woman. And Textsyle - totally agree on uncovering a few of these for $2 or so.