Mom Jeans are Back!

Bloggers who have followed me for a long time know what a pain buying pants have been for me.  From quite a while ago my children kept telling me that my pants were not up to the current fashion standard.  My daughter said I needed to stop wearing "mom jeans."  Even my son-in-law agreed that my jeans needed to be updated.

I finally gave in and let my daughter buy me a new pair of more fashionable jeans to wear to Egypt several years ago from Old Navy.  I bought what I thought was comfortable.  However, there was some stretch to it and after wearing them for a couple of days, they almost fell off of my hips when I was running across the street in Cairo.  Just imagine what a scene that might have caused.

 

For one thing, at my age I don't have much of a hip anymore to hold those low waistbands up.  On top of that there's been a redistribution of my body fat.  It's now located in front of my hips.  When I wear those "fashionable" jeans I get this horrendous, bulbous, blobby love handles.  And on top of that... my blouses were too short for the lower waisted pants.  Therefore, when I put my hands up, what did you see?  Yup!   Not pretty!  So I had to update my blouses too.

I finally found some Docker capris that I live in now and Style & Co. jeans for when I travel (with a little higher waistlines).

Imagine my surprise when I opened the L.L. Bean catalog last week.

MOM Jeans!!!

They certainly don't call it that, but that's what it is alright.  The waist is higher and what do you know?  They even added elastic!  I couldn't believe it.

What was that saying?

What goes around, comes around.

Sure enough!

Proper Fitting "Fashionable" Jeans

Do you have problems finding proper fitting, reasonably priced jeans? Both of my kids have complained that my jeans were above my navel and so very, very old fashioned. My daughter took me out to hunt for a pair of new jeans for our trip to Egypt a few months ago. We found one at Old Navy. It seemed to fit fine and I was told they were so much better looking. However, in Egypt I found that the jeans have stretch to them and virtually fell off of me as I scampered madly across the streets amid the honking cacophony of car horns. I kept having to pull them up because they were precariously riding on my hips. Some of the younger members of our tour laughed and said that's what they discovered about the Old Navy jeans also. You have to buy them a size smaller. I did but then I ended up with what my kids call muffin tops where your hip fat gets shoved out of your pants to hang over the "waist" band. Also, when you bend over...you can see far more than you want anyone to see unless you upgrade all your blouses....argh! This photo is of my granddaughter illustrating the problem of your pants hanging down and exposing more than it should. At least I don't have to wear diapers....yet.

I did go to the Eddie Bauer outlet two days ago and bought a pair of jeans that are now MUCH higher and (whoopee!) cover everything. My daughter sighed and said, "Well...they do still look better than what you used to wear... but now your butt looks too flat."

Arrrrghhhhhh!