JEANS

The ScarJo photo that everyone hated with the really high jeans and the black tank top was SO much better.

You love those jeans so much!!! :-)

i don't remember this photo!

I could never never wear them cos I don't like having things around my waist. Also high-waisted jeans are so not the answer to sitting at a desk all day with the tummy bunched up. But I like that photo of her and I thought the disapproval when it came out was terribly unfair. :)

The ScarJo photo that everyone hated with the really high jeans and the black tank top was SO much better.
oh yeah, from the imitation of christ show? that was not so good

surm:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/iheartjamesdean/scarlett-highwaistskinnyjeansred-1.jpg

that's fucking hot

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I can't remember what it was for but I think she was modeling. Maybe Imitation of Christ or something like that? I just know that I've seen Laurel post about that pic/those jeans a bunch of times before. They're like her holy grail jeans.

hmmmm.

I think that they look good on her and she looks awesome there but I could never wear anything like that. I'd look ridic.

thx for posting that!

(the pic)

Yes! Phil beat me to it -- like I said, I couldn't wear them either, but that's about the only way I like jeans with heels.

i think the cigarette is kind of what makes the pic even moar laurel-y!

so perfect!

Wait, AND she's smoking? Oh shit etc. Haha.

I do actually have a pair of pointy red '50s stilettos and I have been known to wear them with very tapered ankle-length jeans. Mostly to like garage rock shows, though. Guilty as charged.

my friend's reaction to that look --
friend: that takes a certain kind of woman
but it is gorgeous

Ha, weird, I totally accept the shoe-swallowing on those proper trousers, but there is still a tiny part of my brain that has guy standards and is confused by the lack of feet/shoes and wonders about ease of walking and generally associates shoe-swallowing with

As for the ScarJo 50s-style high-waist tapered-leg heels thing, I know not many people are going to have the body type and inclinations to really pull that off, but I hope that fact will encourage those who can to run with it.

i am just checking in to say, Surmounter, i am on the same side of the tacky fence as you.

whoah, what happened there? "generally associates shoe-swallowing with ... sloppy teenage boys and ravers," was most of what I was going to say, I think

whew, horseshoe, i'm glad i'm not alone :D

surmounter + horseshoe = horsemounter

Will have to add that to the vocabulary thread. HORSEMOUNTER (adj.): things that look nice but a bit more "fabulous" than Laurel or Lauren would be likely to enjoy

:D

i'm sorry, i just love it so much: http://www.dlisted.com/node/27714/images/spl43975_003.jpg

oh, god.

http://www.turkishemporium.co.uk/images/HAREMPANTS/HAREMPANTSBLACKsmall.jpg

those jeans are busted seamed with selvage which is more often than not very $$$.

the finish is atrocious though, esp. the way the outseam is totally ribboned up. total no-no.

WHY IS SHE WEARING A SCARF IN AUGUST?

hmm... that outfit is kind of a mash-up of katie and v. beckham , actually. a few preppy chic items, nice but possibly a bit boring/too "old" for her, thrown together with ugly ultra-premium denim and vaguely takcy stilettos.

er, tacky.

haha i love those shoes.

those shoes are a little beckham, yeah

i kinda like it except not the color of the jeans. brings back memories of spending like an hour trying to cuff my jeans properly every time there was dress-down day (eg didn't have to wear uniforms) in middle school.

last night on the train i saw, in real life, a man wearing the jeans rolled up like katie holmes. i had to write this down so i didn't forget bc it was so o_O but he was also wearing dirty white keds (the old school lace up kind, not the slip ons like vans), a keffiyeh, and a vest. also carrying what seemed to be a womens leather tote/purse.

woah.

Was he on his way to work at BAM?

haha laurel, we dress better than that!

(that sounds horrifying btw)

ran the KH pic by some womens denim experts in the office and they said they are the Current/Elliot "Boyfriend" jeans.

love it -- where do you work??

boyfriend jean: http://www.singer22.com/1957boyfriendsuplovdestroy.html

it was really kind of crazy, surm! i wish i could have taken a pic, but it would have been too obvious. i'm still kind of unsettled by it all.

noooo rachel bilson :(

"Boyfriend" jeans, aka the hand-me-downs Levis you stole from your brother for painting the front porch in that cost about $27 at Sears in 1992. Nice work, fashun industry.

Ya retards.

I can never find jeans that look good on me and I think I'm not going to buy them anymore.

fuck em! i have a friend who i've NEVER seen in jeans. it's strange.

I took the advice on this thread and bought my last two pairs of Levis as tight as possible and I'm not sure it is the right decision. One pair fits around the waste but is a bit tight around the thighs, so much so that when I walk up the subway stairs I feel very conscious of working against the stiffness of the material. The other pair fits throughout the leg but is a bit tight around the stomach. When i come home I have to undo the top button so that I can be comfortable. Did I follow your advice too literally?

laurel, please explain this 'bias cut cotton twill' thing and how to spot it, since i know nothing about fabric.

Uh. Denim is a twill. It stretches "on the bias" that is, around your round parts (as do many other woven fabrics to some degree, the gradual stretch and fiber "memory" is just a quality of cotton in general). Which is pretty much everywhere, since jeans are constructed as flat items but have to go on non-flat bodies. You don't have to know anything about fabric! :D

Mary, I'm wearing a new pair of jeans right now that I bought on...last Thurs? One week and about 4 wearings later, they are still a little too tight but still stretching gradually. Personally, that's the tightness I want over the life of the jeans. If they stretch too much now, they'll be baggy in three months. The first few wearings are def not comfortable!

ahh ok i thought it was some kind of special fabric-cut, like a bias-cut skirt! gah, and i work in a clothing store!