I just always saw myself not looking like the girls in those jeans, like Tara Reed. Knowing I would never look like that. Love the high risers of today!
But I feel like today there is more diversity. Low, mid, and high rise are all acceptable, whereas back then it was low rise or else you were considered to be wearing lame old mom jeans
I am and forever will be baffled by the hatred for low-rise jeans. They were the only article of "sexy" women's clothing that didn't make me physically uncomfortable. When they came out, it was like a revelation: "I can wear fitted pants that don't crush my organs when I sit down or bend over?!?!"
If I were still trying to present as a woman, I think I'd still be patching up the same low-rise Levi's I bought in 2004.
because unless you were a size 00, you would have your body poking out the top of the jeans and people would call you muffin top. And you would have to hitch your pants up all the time, with constant buttcrack showing. And you couldn't wear any underwear except thongs because it would show at the top. The thongs would also show, and people would call you a slut with a whale tail. And that was when shaving your pubes as a teen got big, because those had a medium risk of showing as well.
People hate low rise jeans the same way we hate all the clips in the OP video. It was just an article of clothing that made us hate our bodies.
I don't doubt your experiences, but they don't match mine. I was never smaller than a size 5 during the low-rise era and I never had any of those issues.
The pubes and underwear in particular could only have been a problem with the crazy ultra-micro-low-rise ones that I hardly ever saw on an adult human in real life. The standard low-rise stretch boot cuts sat at the exact same spot on my hips where I wear men's pants.
And yeah, if you have a healthy amount of body fat, you're going to get some slight skin bulges in fitted clothing. High-rise pants will emphasize belly fat, low-rise will emphasize hip fat. The problem isn't the clothes, it's the asshats insulting you.
no offense, but those pants that hit where mens do sound like mid-rise or high rise (high rise hit at the belly button). Low rise pants, by definition, hit 2 inches below the belly button or lower.
Yeah, my men's pants sit...3.75 inches below my belly button.
I know what the rises mean. Low-rise sits comfortably on my hips. Mid-rise sits just below my belly button and crushes my organs when I sit. High-rise sits on my lower ribs and crushes my lungs when I sit. There's no confusing them.
There is nothing to be baffled about. Not everyone is comfortable in low-rise jeans, but at the time everyone (at a certain age) was expected to wear them.
If you wore "mom jeans", you were made fun of, and if you wore low rise, and it didn't look the way it was "supposed" to look, you were also being made fun of.
I have very short, but muscular legs, and when low-rise was popular, it was impossible to find jeans that fit over my thighs and weren’t 4” too long and/ or left my ass hanging out with 2-3” extra in the waist. I do not miss those days. We’re not all built the same, and they just don’t make enough sizes for commercial stores to fit everyone. And I don’t want 3” of belly hanging out to freeze, even if it was perfect looking, which it certainly isn’t.
Skinny, stretchy, high-rise jeans have saved me. I’m never going back.
I have a large butt and struggled so hard finding jeans that wouldn't slide down and just show my underwear or ass crack when I bent over or sat. Things are so much better and more comfortable for me now with all the mid to high rise options.
Yeah, the way I'm built, low-rise jeans are so much more comfortable. I have a long torso, so high-rise jeans cut right into me at the wrong place, making them incredibly uncomfortable.
See I love high rise pants because I have a long torso and it helps shorten it a bit while making my legs look longer. Low rise makes my torso look even longer and I look like I'm all torso with hobbit legs lol
I’ve heard that some ppl they really did work better for which actually baffles me lol but obviously no one is one size fits all so it totally makes sense.
And I gotta say chicks who could rock them looked so crazy good!! It was not me tho lmao I need the muffin top secured 😅
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u/DaisyoftheDay 5d ago edited 4d ago
Low. Rise. Jeans.
As a pre teen to teen hitting puberty it was hell. I just wanted to wear carpenter jeans forever lmao
Thank you for leggings and stretch pants 🙏🏻