Actually I was going to ask something very similar to Rae(I am a scorpio going on sagittarius, so it figures).
The concept of mom jeans is not only associated with the shape of the jean itself but also of the body shape and age of the person who is wearing it.

Denise looks fabulous in her recent WIW . I have a friend older than me that has been wearing nothing but high waisted jeans all her life and looks amazing.

However, and I don't mind at all to use me as an example ,if I tried to wear most of the styles in the photos here I would be the poster-child for mom jeans SNL version.

Sort of begs the question - maybe someone has already mentioned this - if it's the jeans or the top & topper. Because that's what's changing from uncool to cool version.

... Oh, and I guess shoes too.

They should really be called Urkel jeans. I LOVED that show, btw.

I just realized Acne Needle jeans are high waisted.

http://cdn.freshnet.com/blogs/.....030159.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jr4I.....waisted+je

http://img694.imageshack.us/im.....80006b.jpg

Anna, those don't look like so-called mom jeans. I don't think all high waisted jeans are mom jeans - there is more to it. Or am I wrong? Because high waisted jeans and trouser can indeed be flattering, or if not, at least not actively unflattering.

I agree that the Acne do NOT look like my jeans. When I think of mom jeans, they are disproportionate. They usually have a high waist that cinches in and then has an ill fitting , ample butt with very lose thighs and it is generally in a light color or "acid wash".

Ok so I'm suck at home sick and did google image searching. I think the best ones are with cropped belly baring tops.
eg
http://thepenelopetimes.com/2013/06/mom-jeans/

Though a LOT of images of Mitt Romney in jeans came up too.

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but I'm sorry, I just gotta say NOPE NOPE NOPE... Not for me. Maybe on the young, slim-hipped, and/or long-waisted. But I am none of those things and will not go back to mom jeans. Please let this not be a trend that pushes mid to lower rises out of the market.

I think some things are a "need to get used to it" eyeball adjustment--boyfriend jeans, skinny jeans, bell bottoms, tapered, etc., but I don't think the long, flat, ass silhouette that I remember from the Chic jeans of the neighborhood moms of my youth ever needs to come back.

I know that I am susceptible to accepting certain styles as "normal" after a while... as it happened with bootleg and skinny jeans. I'm scared to think I might like mom jeans again. I think they look terrible in that Friends pic! But I know it's entirely possible that in a year or two, I might think they look great! *shudder*

Una - I think this look is all about proportion. I am 5'3" with long legs and calves. Although my torso does not read as short by the numbers it is short in comparison to my legs. So I love a midrise because it elongates my torso and I still have a really long leg line. For women who have shorter legs and longer torsos, I could see where this style (whatever PC term you want to call it) could be very flattering. For me I'd look all leg with a really short torso. So I am going to stick to a lower midrise.

I can't stop chuckling over here..

Look, ANY fashion can become a pejorative and fashion don't. This is how trends seem to cycle. It wasn't that long ago it was the ultra-low rise. The eventual pejorative was "plumber's crack" and a whole lot of others I won't repeat in polite company here. This is, after all, how thongs and Brazilian's came into fashion! And I recently mentioned on another thread the extreme faded rear trend, and how my DH called it "baboon butt." And we haven't even mentioned the preponderance of muffin top -- slowly being eradicated as rises inch higher and higher (thank goodness!).

But, the problem actually isn't the fashion per se; the problem is our mass manufacturing system. Which produces high-demand fashions to fit the masses, which means "average" female shape, and unfortunately it's WAY more complicated than that, and very very few of us fit in the average.

I'm convinced -- ANY woman can pull off mom jeans, ultra low rise jeans, extreme rear end fading, etc, etc... provided the garment is customized perfectly for the woman's individual figure.

And that, my dears, is the problem.

As long as we have mass manufacturing, it's going to be difficult and a challenge, and eventually when too many women are walking around in jeans that embrace the trend for the trends' sake, but do not embrace the woman's unique body proportions ... then we'll end up making jokes about it and inevitably developing severe allergies and rejecting the trend.

Until it comes around again, and looks fresh.

Rinse repeat.

These newer *mom jeans* don't really look like *classic mom jeans* to my eye because the fabric is a bit different AND the fit has changed. In those days, denim was darn thick and didn't stretch; that's why some jeans had pleats. I have a long torso with a long waist and very short legs and must confess that I have a number of pairs of higher rise jeans to give me a longer leg line: Gloria Vanderbilt, Style & Co., and NYDJ. My waist is also proportionately small and/or is so low that I almost never have a problem with a waistband digging into me so perhaps that is another big reason why this style doesn't particularly bother me.

Oh, and Shiny may be right about shoulder pads coming back. Yay! At church yesterday, a sixth grader asked his mom what those things were he saw under her chiffon jacket. She had to explain what shoulder pads are!

Someone may have posted this already, but Refinery 29 thinks mom jeans are cool

http://www.refinery29.com/mom-.....on#slide-1

Yes to everything Shiny said!

I'll admit to a bit of chuckling too because Rae's reaction to high-waisted jeans was my reaction to skinny jeans when they started trending.

Rinse and repeat, indeed

To be fair, I am not hell-bent on opposing all high-waisted jeans (I like a high waisted skinny like Anna showed!), nor the "new" mom jeans that Refinery 29 linked to worn by Connie Wang - those seem to include modern touches like fading and distressing.

I guess I am still of the mind that trends never come back 100% the same.