Not that I want this head-to-toe look, but I don't think this girl is feeling apologetic about her ass:
http://mybabyjo.com/clothes/capridenim_lg.jpg
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
it might also be a problem that i don't have nice ankles, otherwise i think i might be able to pull of this look.
― Rubyredd, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, you don't have to wear capris. I do prefer the skinny jeans short-ish, just around the ankle bone, but that's just me.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
My only advice on jeans is to buy them as tight and as dark as possible.
I agree with this!^^^^ Except now that it's summer Levis thinks we all want light blue, instead of dark denim. Bastards.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Wear them in a thinner material, you just need to try the texture, some jeans are made thicker than others and are hotter. I mean I could go into extreme detail about how every shape can wear those skinny jeans/capris look if you know how to do it but basically wear jeans in the summer but make sure the material isn't one thats too heavy. You'll know, trust.
― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I ain't worn jeans in over two years, I think? I might never wear them again. This is just me, but I don't think that jeans are very flattering on fifty-something year-old guys. Pair them with sneakers and it gets truly blecch. I want to look dignified in my old age, ffs.
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
so you're telling us you're not paul newman or robert redford eh
― rrrobyn, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
guess so!
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
But basically I think I just don't like jeans. Period.
The revival in recent years of designer jeans with stupid embroidery on the back pockets really rankled me. I forgot to complain about that on the "Nineties Fashion" thread...
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I respect your position on jeans, dell. It's good to have standards.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks, that's a kind way of putting it!
― dell, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel, are the wrangler jeans you like the slim-fit cowboy cut?
― lauren, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i ask because i was just looking around at various jeans online and found a wrangler style that looked decent: mid-rise, slim fit, straight leg.
― lauren, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Wrangler? I've never bought Wranglers...? I went through 2 or 3 pars of Lee Dungarees but they stopped making the ones I loved.
― Laurel, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, ok. i mixed up lee and wrangler.
― lauren, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
ok you guys, i bought the jbrand jeans. i was meeting my mom at nordstrom anyway, so figured i would try them on which would immediately stop all my longing because they looked so stupid. but they didn't, i really like them.
only trouble is-- they're way more low rise than i'm used to (this is partly because i have a natural urkel waist so everything feels too low rise to me), and i have a tiny bit of muffin top hanging over. they are tight (and very dark), so i don't know if that will improve as it stretches out over the next few wears? i never ever wear tops that bare the midriff, either, so think it shouldn't matter because it will be completely covered. but if it does, please tell me and i will go get my $200 back, that would be OK.
― colette, Friday, 20 June 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Ladies:
Take a look at A.P.C. New Cure or Hipster model jeans.
IMO these are the best jeans in the women's market.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 20 June 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve Shasta please advise as to jeans that accommodate 5'11' girls with high hip-to-waist ratio.
― quincie, Friday, 20 June 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone told me Joe's Jeans Muses but I'm not sure???
apc jeans are relatively short inseam, right? hudson i think are v long, i haven't tried any myself
― daria-g, Friday, 20 June 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
shasta, please help me with A.P.C. jeans sizing. i tried on the new cure this weekend in a size 29. in levi's or whatever i usually wear a 27. the 29 was too small to even button and just barely made it over my hips. now, looking at their website i see that 30 is the largest size they even offer. is APC trying to tell me that i am a fat?
― bell_labs, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
now everything i'm reading about APC jeans says to go several sizes down from your usually size? what the hell?
― bell_labs, Monday, 23 June 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Guys, my company's CEO sent out an email on Friday saying we can all wear jeans through Labor Day. Woo! And I was about to buy some summer work pants. jeans and $$$ saved.
― sunny successor, Monday, 23 June 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
A.P.C. are true to size. They will shrink if you wash in hot water and machine-dry, so I'd rinse in cool water when you need to clean the garment.
The seat and yoke of most jeans are constructed via using chainstitching to make double-interlock flat seams. This means is that jeans in their native state will give a little in the seat(butt)/lower back. With a pair of A.P.C.s that will last at least 10 years, you should try to find the most snug fit possible because they will "stretch" (ie, due to seam construction as opposed to fabrication components). I would go for the 29 (with effort) and if that's too uncomfortable try the 30. Raw denim is very coarse and stiff at first, it will begin softening immediately with wear.
Many US companies began "vanity sizing" in the 80s, convincing people that they wore a smaller size than what the garment measures out to be (eg, a size 27" garment measures to a true 29"). Some brands (like Levi's) resisted this trend for over a decade until they saw their sales decrease because those brands "didn't fit" the consumer. European and Asian companies do not vanity size which may explain the variance.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Vanity sizing is the worst - size small became size large pretty quickly as everyone stopped exercising and started eating like shit. It's crazy, buy a size small from 1980 and it fits like ... a small. You need to get an XXSmall to get an actual small these days.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
so APC IS saying i'm a fat oh well at least their voluminous dresses fit.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf is a voluminous dress
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i was using it to mean smock dresses/non-fitted silhouettes
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i thought they were designed to like give your body more volume =P
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/alwaysontime6/littlewhitedress.jpg ^this kind of shape
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I really wish dresses cut like that wouldn't invariably look like a potato sack on me. They look so chic and comfy :(
― quincie, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
same here. i suspect its a chest size prob.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
YES that is clearly why i can wear them horray for the 1 dress that looks good on the flat of chest
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
To learn more about vanity sizing, take a tape measure and your favorite jeans and measure the waist and compare to the stated size.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ignorance in this matter is preferred
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i don't want to get even more depressed
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
tho truth is that i do measure my waist. b/c it is for me the best indicator of weight gain reality and when to do something abt it...
p.s. let us pls not start a diiet thread on i love style unless it is a thread abt an all-lobster diet and what restaurants have cute bibs
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yes plz no diet threads
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Or unless it's the "Popular" diet, in which the lunch kit consists of a carrot stick and a cigarette -- and you vomit up the carrot stick.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Pass the lighter, please.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
the thing is, jeans don't sit on my waist. the waist is the narrowest part, by definition, right? even the highest cut jeans go just about to my belly button and then the waist is 2-3 inches above that.
but it still pisses me off that a.p.c. makes only up to a 30 waist (by shasta's math, a 28 to vanity sizers)
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean that's kind of ridiculous right?
i get 34 in waist & they are down around my hips by around a weeks worth of wears
but that is my STYLE
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, bell, I agree it seems ridic. I've never even tried on APC jeans but I don't think a Levi's 12 is going to translate so well. (I did try Uniqlo once but since I couldn't even fit into their 14 and I think that was their largest size, uh fuck 'em).
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
lol srsly there's like nothing that's an actual size 30 or size 10 or whatever, it's either vanity sizing or under-sizing or patterned all wrong. so weird. i tend to these days just hold things against my body and guess. sometimes an 8, sometimes a 12 who freakin knows
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
uniqlo jeans fit so weirdly on me - extremely low-riding, like they only went about 2/3 of the way up my ass.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't care about the number (witness my posting my jeans size here), I just think it seems extreme for me not to fit into any of the available sizes. Like, I am not a very big person, all things considered? How can I be too big for your line of clothing? Ditto the 30-inch waist etc.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel, aren't uniqlo clothes UK sized? which means a 14 is a US 10...
i think i'm going to take the J brand jeans back, maybe think about tracing them and trying to find a tailor that will make something similar but that fully covers my butt.
― colette, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's necessarily vanity sizing as just.. resetting the median of the range according to the size of the average customer. this blog has some thoughts on it..
― daria-g, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I love you and I am going to read that entire series, just not tonight.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
those were my go-to for years before the whole selvedge madness
― mh, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.paulsmith.com/uk/men-s-slim-fit-11-8oz-super-soft-cross-hatch-indigo-jeans i can't find exactly the right ones on the website, the ones i like are just paul smith jeans, black patch, made in japan but don't carry the premium price of whatever the japanese denim line is, just under a hundred bucks... but i recommend those
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
I'm a fan of 511sLee also used to have some nice slim fit jeans, at least in the UK
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
Edwins rule, for me. I just bought a pair of organic cotton slim fit for not much money (I think $A80) on eBay. Dyed, woven, made in Japan too. Their selvedge denim ones, and the "sen" denim (kind of ashy indigo) are great too.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
i'm all about 501s these days once i figured out how to wear them. they now make both a skinny and a tapered version which may work better for your legs. they're always on sale so they can be had quite cheap. in fact, i bought two this weekend for $30 each
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
yea i switched to 501s a couple years ago and now that's all i wear. they are cheap and levis always puts out different washes that I like. the button fly grew on me a lot now I love it
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link