Mom Jeans.....

deb

From Topshop??? Yes the are selling these

http://us.topshop.com/webapp/w.....0&sto.

Will you be wearing them. Me? I think not!

12 years ago

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Latest reply was from Jules

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I think I could easily find a few pair of these at the local rural resale store for about $2 each. I don't think so.

12 years ago

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Must be only for the under 25 set to wear 'ironically'.

12 years ago

Gaylene

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Hmm, maybe they're channeling Marilyn Monroe in her jeans? I doubt that, even today, anyone would dare to call Ms. Monroe frumpy in her "mom" jeans.

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12 years ago

Janet

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Oh, I audibly groaned when I opened that link. Please dear god no.

Even on MM, I cannot endorse those jeans.

My stepsons (in their 20s) are lamenting that hipster girls are wearing high-waisted mom jeans. When even the 22-yo girls are not pulling off the look, it's just not good.

12 years ago

Glory

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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 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.

12 years ago

shaz

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no, not for me but i'm sure the teens will be running round in them in no time at all

12 years ago

Thistle

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And after all the effort I went through to make sure I didn't end up with "mom" jeans. Wow, is tehre ever a picture where the camera doesn't love MM? She can pull off mom jeans!!

12 years ago

Gaylene

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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.

12 years ago

Anonymous

Haha! My DD bought some 'vintage' ones that she cut into shorts. She loves the high waist, but for me, I dread the longbutt effect. My rear is already approaching the back of my knees, thankyouverymuch.

12 years ago

kellygirl

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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.

12 years ago

Anonymous

That reminds me of a very funny blog post I found through pintrest. A very detailed description of what to look for when trying to avoid Mom jeans!

http://www.graspingforobjectiv.....-butt.html

12 years ago

krishnidoux

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They're back!!! LOL

Yes, got a Santana stretch pair of black jeans at Costco last week - 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 have to roll them à la Marilyn, and get them even shorter than what she is showing. Oh, yes, and tuck too.

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12 years ago

Eliza

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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.

12 years ago

Carla

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I don't think so!

I believe high waisted jeans were tried about 5 or 6 years ago, but the trend didn't stick.

12 years ago

Scarlet

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sigh. Somehow I feel like it only a matter of time until this becomes the new (old) thing.

12 years ago

Ingunn

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These are not for me, I think!

12 years ago

Carole

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What are they thinking?

12 years ago

sarah

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Horrid.

12 years ago

Gaylene

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Well, given the universal ugh from YLFers, I'm thinking younger set will be all over this look BECAUSE 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.

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.

12 years ago

catgirl

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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.

12 years ago

DonnaF

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Oh my! My DD also has a pair of Mom jeans style shorts which she loves for their girdling effect. 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.

12 years ago

Beth Ann

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Not looking for Mom jeans again, but I am ready for dressier, drapier, high waisted pants. I love pleated, drapey wide legs. I dread muffin top as much as long butt!

12 years ago

krishnidoux

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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 moulding denim. And I admit, as impossible as it sounds, it does flatter them, in a strange, antipodal way.

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.

12 years ago

Angie

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American Apparel has been selling them for a while too!

12 years ago

Angie

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oops. Double post

12 years ago

krishnidoux

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Now imagine, all the way: powder blue thin high waist denim hot pants. You have to admit these are cool:
http://lookbook.nu/look/198961.....nim-Shorts

12 years ago

K. Period.

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The high waist doesn't bug me at all (unless they start forcing me to wear very high waists and they are pinchy tight). What I think makes them extremely unflattering is the width of the thigh and knee. 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. Little wide ice cream cones. *shudder*

12 years ago

krishnidoux

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K, exactly. Exactly why I was so happy to see them going out of style some 20yrs ago.

12 years ago

Suz

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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.

12 years ago

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