to wear clothes that cut off your circulation?

Anyone for corsets and stays?

Keep using them cellphones, your brains are only half cooked.

I thought that a few years ago, the Gap came out with these skinny black pants, and went through copyright hell to get the rights to use footage of Audrey Hepburn in "Funny Face" dancing in skinny black pants, and edited said footage in with AC/DC's "Back in Black" in their commercials...and then NO ONE bought the pants, because it turns out they only look good on classically trained ballerinas who spent their childhoods being starved by Nazis and their adulthoods chain-smoking instead of eating.

So why, exactly, is everyone now wearing these damn skinny pants?

Some people can actually wear "skinny" jeans without cutting off circulation or pressing on nerves. I am not one of them, so I don't buy them. Simple.

Also: low-rise != skinny.

i, for one, am happy that there are so many different choices of denim looks out there. on any given day i can be fashionable wearing boot-cut, high-waisted, trouser style, bell-bottom, skinny, stretch, cropped, cut-off, dark rinse, acid wash, light wash, white, blue, purple, gray, and on and on. the women who are getting the tingles should just size up. i wear my skinnies one size up and lo and behold i don't look like a jerk. i do think ms. harding is wasting her breath on saying skinny jeans don't look good on anyone and leggings aren't pants and blah blah blah. Instead there should be focus on the REAL fashion outrage of these stupid scarves that people are wearing with tank tops when it's 80 degrees. can we PLEASE find some health risk associated with this abomination besides my blood boiling at having to look at this rampant ridiculousness?

Look good in skinny, low waisted jeans. The tragedies I have witnessed, where young, thin, beautiful girls, prance around in the low cut jeans sporting the much-reviled "muffin top." When a tall thin girl has muffin top, you know those jeans are all kinds of wrong.

Ah, the Audrey Hepburn ad. Reminds me of the day I plowed through the Gap, trying on ten different types of khakis, trying to find the ones that would make me look like Meg Ryan in "French Kiss." Luckily the salesgirl was kind and disabused me of my notion that the right pair of khakis would turn my short, curvy self into a tall woman built like a 12 year old boy.

And yeah, the Hepburn Gap pants didn't turn me into her, either.

WHEN IS MARILY MONROE'S BODY GOING TO COME BACK INTO STYLE??

:-(

I mean, honestly, if you're actually going to damage yourself for fashion, make it worth it.

I'm minded of all the girls I see on NYE or other all night events who end up carrying their shoes and mincing about barefoot by one am or so because their feet hurt or they've twisted an ankle in their stiletto heels. Amateurs.

A quote I recall from a man who made jeans for "rockers", thus I don't think its just a women's thing. Still love that quote.

"The super low-rise jeans that were especially popular in the late 90s and early 2000s were also linked to meralgia paresthetica," the article informs us.

I don't recall super low-rise jeans being fashionable in the late 90's, at least for us girls. Back then the higher-waisted style was still(unfortunately)VERY popular.

It's that many women don't wear pants that actually fit them. For most women, if you wear pants too small, you're going to end up with the nasty muffin top and other jeans-related maladies. Just buy pants that fit!

I managed to lose a little bit of weight recently and went pant shopping. Although I managed to squeeze myself into a pair of pants in a size I hadn't worn since pre-pregnancy, they were tight and uncomfortable and made me look like I was wearing a sausage casing. I went a couple of sizes larger, and suddenly a I looked a whole lot better.

and your pants wont crush you.

I hear ya.

I want Marilyn Monroe's bathing suit. You know, the one with the actual bra in it and the legs that weren't cut so damn high you have to shave things you shouldn't have to shave.

as long as they are opaque and not giving you camel toe, who cares?? (ditto on the skinny jeans)

how/why is this more offensive than cleavage-baring tops?

but, for christ's sake, don't negate the occasional tight.

Tight is beautiful.

What's new about causing body damage in the name of fashion? Everyone in this country (both men and women) has undergone body deformation in order to conform to social norms: our feet. Do you know what the feet of a person who has never worn shoes look like? Very wide, with big gaps between the toes. That's what evolution (or God, take your pick) has dictated for us. But society says we have to crush our feet into skinny shoes starting at only a few months old.

Also, as a libidinous male, I'm all for the leggings/jeggings trend. I think women are too hard on themselves -- there are very few women who do not look sexy in leggings, fashion experts be damned.

Thirty-five years ago my high school had a large number of Swedish foreign exchange students and several of my classmates went to Sweden. I remember a friend who went over telling me how it took three girls to get each girl's jeans on. In fact, they wore them so tight that the medical community became worried that their hips would not be able to develop properly for future childbirth.

At least Swedish females in the '70s weren't fat like so many Americans today (both genders). I am routinely amazed at how much adipose I see hanging over American pants. Doesn't anyone own a mirror?

Here you go, darling!

https://www.prettythingsboutique.com/swimwear.html

Believe it or not, there is a bit of a renaissance in retro-style swimwear. It flatters the curves, looks very womanly and sexy, and doesn't tend to lead to wardrobe malfunctions.