On current fashion

[winter]

Can't vampirise the LJ completely, and I do have other passions. Like shopping. And I've had a pretty productive mall trip yesterday.

So I'll just ask: how cool is it that lowrise jeans and pants are finally on their way out? I've tried on a dozen pairs, grabbed randomly from three different shops, and only three were lowrise. Even the fashionable pencil-leg jeans now come in on-the-waist varieties, one of which I acquired - my first store-bought pair of jeans in four years or more. (And no, my hatred of lowrise isn't because of modesty issues. They're just tailored - tightly - to the typical no-hips, no-waist Polish figure. I have up to a 0.7 waist-to-hip ratio. Do the math. I actually own a pair of lowrise jeans, when I found one that fit my hips...)

The other thing I really like about this season's clothing is the dandy image. Satin waistcoats, tailored shirts, chains and pearls and nonchalant attitude. I managed to find a bottle-green tailored shirt - the first one ever that fits me perfectly - at H&M, but I continue on the waistcoat quest. See hip-to-waist ratio, complaints about ~_~

Still, happiest about the jeans. Mostly because they bring my tally of pants that actually fit to four pairs. Sometimes losing weight is annoying ;)

Comments

[atheva]

*sighs happily* I would give my kidney if those accursed lowrise jeans weren't still so popular here. They don't make any trousers for girls of my short stature with very full hips. I feel your pain on the pants issue.

[winter]

I think they're on their way out - this spring's fashion magazines all say so, at least in Europe. It might take a year or two for it to filter through to the US. And it's definitely not fashionable at all to combine them with crop tops anymore, for which I thank the gods. Walking down the street will be a much more aesthetic experience ;)

[atheva]

I'll pray for Europe's fashions to get to the US as soon as possible.

Note to self: Move to Europe.

[winter]

Hm, don't you guys get H&M too? They've got quite a few decent things, though I have to admit they're still doing a fair bit of lowrise pants. I'm currently rather in love with Marks&Spencer's of all things, because pants are pants, and they tailor things exactly to my type of figure.

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

And to butt in a little more...we do have H&M, but only in the very large cities: New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., etc. If you live in a more mid-size city, you don't have access...

[winter]

You poor people ;) It's the same here, but at least it's much closer to a big city from every place in Poland. And of course I live thirty minutes from the biggest mall in Central Europe...

[atheva]

*nod* The great suck of living in the US (other than the politics). If you don't live in a big city, you have squat to choose from in terms of shopping.

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

Low-rise pants are already out of fashion in US...but I live in New York, which I know makes a difference. Give it a season, and it should start to filter through the rest of the country.

[atheva]

*sobs* Not where I live. Stupid Ohio. >.