Blue jeans rage

[winter]

I'm quite tempted to fire off an angry e-mail or two to Glamour and Elle. They've been gushing for a year about how mid-to-high-waist skinny jeans are all the rage, with straight-leg being the other acceptable option, about how they flatter curves and should have angled pockets and thin stretch denim for best effect.

Well, someone should bloody well tell Polish jeans distributors. I've been to five shops so far that stock nothing but extreme pubic-bone-showing low-rises in the female section, with flare legs for preference. Forget angled back pockets when the fabric is so heavy and so narrowly cut that few post-pubescents are able to fit it over thighs and hips. I kind of lost hope when I held up the three pairs I got from one saleslady to try and none of them had hips any wider than the waist.

(And don't get me started on sizing. 32 inseam, have your pick of all waist sizes from 24 to 40. Girls with 34 inseam and waists/hips over 28 Do Not Exist.)

I still need to hit H&M, but it looks like I'm doomed to designer jeans :/ River Island had several lovely models, but only one in a size that fit me (for some reason they tend to have long-legs only in UK sizes 6 to 10, too), and that one doesn't have angled pockets. Then again, it's a month until I get to Berlin, and I was planning to shop there. They're sure to have a better choice of long-legged jeans.

If I have to have my jeans custom-made, I am going to be most upset.

Comments

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

And this is why I buy jeans in male section XD They look better anyway. No silly glitter or patterns or God-knows-what. Just normal unisex jeans.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Skinny jeans look best on very skinny people, as far as I can tell. Of course, by the time the Polish distributors catch up, they'll be out of fashion.

Do you have some jeans that you like and in which the manufacturer has an on-line store? That might be your best bet.

Or you could wait until you hit Berlin, which is another option, unless you need new clothes *right* now because your old jeans are coming apart at the seams.

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

My generous booty fits the size 34 or (lately, yay!) 33 "Loyal" jeans at H&M quite well — that line has a raised back to cover your butt but on the front it goes up only to the point that minimizes your belly. The legs are bootcut.

...I can't fit in any of the other lines, though. ¬_¬;;

As for the upper part of the body, I've recently discovered that Esprit has very nice t-shirts at adequate sizes and prices.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Sister has that problem in spades. 34-inch inseam, waist of about size 6-8 at most and hips that belolng to a size 14.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

This might be a stupid question but River Island is designer?^^

[hotbeast.livejournal.com]

Już dawno nie widziałam w naszych sklepach spodni które pasowałyby mi jednocześnie w biodrach i w pasie. Kiedyś wyczaiłam i nosiłam gumowane dzinsy EASY lecz teraz za skarby nie dałabym sie namówić na założenie ich. Ale przynajmniej zaraz po praniu sprawiały wrażenie, że są w odpowiednich miejscach dopasowane. Jeszcze ONLY z Vero Moda były idealne, lecz z kieszonkami i było to dobre 10 lat temu :(. Rozumiem problem i łączę się w bólu strudzonych stóp i rosnącej irytacji. To nie żółta rasa nas zaleje, tylko ich produkty dla płaskich ludzików.

ah, that sucks.............

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

I buy my clothes from JC Penney (store in US). They have old people's clothes that I like which doesn't subscribe to trends (like normal cut jeans).

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

I feel for you, I think we're stuck in the same fashional backwaters... I haven't been able to buy jeans or trousers for two years because I simply won't buy the indecently low-rise ones. And it seems that all the jeans here are made for women who have a) stick-thin thighs, b) no hips, b) no ass, d) no waist. I'm pretty much the opposite, so there we go. Although for me, all of them are also too long at the inseam. I suppose it's easier than too short because it's easier to shorten than to lengthen, though.