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Like many fashion trends over the eons, they didn't look good on everyone, yet "everyone" tried to wear them. What I recall from those days is a lot of women with jeans at mid-hip height and a big muffin top bulging out above. Your observations or recollections a couple of decades since that era seem to differ.
Might be the age difference. First round of low-rise jeans in the early '90s was really too young, around 10. When it came back around though in early 2000s I was a senior in high school, and then going into college. It's not hard for 18 early 20 somethings to look good. Nowadays if most of the women my age went stuffing themselves in low-rise jeans with the thongs sticking out the top? Yeah, not a good luck. We're just getting closer to 40 now and for the most part everyone my age has gone flabby around the edges. Given you can maybe fit the low-rise jeans not quite as low and a bit looser and the thong thing was always a bit trashy imo.
Because everything old is new again and the fashion industry makes its money by changing things up and telling people they are no longer fashionable and need the next thing.
But, as an aside, low-rise jeans were rather impractical - they didn't fit most women well and led to stuff like plumber's crack, having to buy special underwear, etc.
I can’t stand high-waisted jeans. I’m short waisted and never looked good in them. I’m sure as I get older (I’m 61 now), they will look even worse. I also find them uncomfortable. You couldn’t pay me to wear high-waisted jeans.
I can’t stand high-waisted jeans. I’m short waisted and never looked good in them. I’m sure as I get older (I’m 61 now), they will look even worse. I also find them uncomfortable. You couldn’t pay me to wear high-waisted jeans.
Are you talking about the jeans that sit at your natural waist or are you talking about the jeans that sit about 2 or 3 inches above your natural waist?
To me, the only comfortable jeans sit at my natural waist.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
”Fashions fade, style is eternal”…Yves Saint Laurent
IMO showing thongs with low rise jeans is NOT “style”. It was a fad we wanted to do to copy Britney Spears in the early 2000s as preteens & young teens but our parents said $&*#&…”no way”…AND I’m super lucky they did. I didn’t think so then.
AND even tho low rise jeans are back….that fad isn’t. The super crazy fits with zippers that were barely there aren’t either. As a matter of fact, low rise jeans have been trying to come back awhile but it hasn’t totally taken hold IMO…BUT, they are showing different types of low rise styles & inseam measurements for a more personal fit, just like all other types of jeans. That’s the biggest difference between then & now…IMO.
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…”no way”…AND I’m super lucky they did. I didn’t think so then.
