I tried to write a post about the insanity of trying to shop for new jeans today, but I lost it not once but twice.
Just to summarize what I was going to say:
Fashion designers HATE people like me. People with hips and short legs.
And for the record, I hate them too.
I am also appalled that they want to charge $100 for JEANS for crying out loud.
And the skinny pant? What the FUCK? Who ever thought that up can just bite my big round ass.
I have never, ever found a pair of jeans to fit real hips.
Amen, sister, amen. Little 4’11″ me cannot stand pants shopping.
I think we need to have a Clint and Stacey special episode of What Not To Wear when they find every single effing KLB a kick ass pair of jeans. Cause I need a new pair too. wah!
I was just reading last night that it was Kate Moss who made the skinny jean popular again. Of course, she can wear them, being as how she’s 5’11″ and weighs 93 lbs. Personally, I think just existing in those dimensions is disloyal to all of womankind. Hmph.
They hate me too.
I have long legs = pant legs too short
hips that fit but the nerve, by stomach doesn’t meet whatever measure that fashion gods have proclaimed as appropriate for jeans.
Sigh.
It sucks.
oh i feel you. i have the exact same situation. small waist, short legs, big booty.
i’ve been doing the old navy thing… just because they’re only twenty bucks and you can find ‘short’ sizes there.
but i’ve been wanting to ebay some seven jeans and see what they are like…
I went jean shopping yesterday, too. Even my latest find, the gap ‘curvy’ jean, wouldn’t cooperate, so I ended up going into Sephora and spending WAAAY too much money. Oh, did I mention I rarely were makeup?
Yeah, I have the same and the opposite problem. They don’t make jeans for 6 foot 1 amazons who are larger than a size 4 and have my big flat ass. Making my size 18 xlong impossible to find unless I want to spend 100-plus dollars, but then even then, the tall catalogs only go up to size 16! I feel your pain
Jeans. They are the bane of my existance. I have hugh thighs (think speed skater), a giant ass and a smallish waist. Doesn’t make for a good combination.
I’m with you on the skinny pants. They don’t look good on anyone, especially pear-shaped me.
Amen.
I tried on a pair of those skinny black pants at the Gap. Don’t ask, because I can’t answer.
The sales clerk, who looked to be about my size at a curvy 5’2″ish and 120ish, said, “Ooooh, tell me how those fit! I haven’t tried them on yet.”
When I came out, after what was a truly demoralizing few minutes in the dressing room, she asked me, “How were they?”
“Like Satan himself had sewn every stitch. Thanks for your concern.”
Then I strapped on my jetpack, flew to Gap HQ and slammed their chief designer’s fingers in a car door.
Try apple bottom jeans. I think they’re sold at Macy’s or whatever the equivalent is where you are. It’s a line designed by Nelly (yes, the rapper), but my friend LOVES them (and she’s built like J.Lo).
Fashion designers hate everyone except celebrities and other fashion designers. How else to explain it all?
Shopping for pants SUCKS. Period.