JEANS

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

uniqlo jeans fit so weirdly on me - extremely low-riding, like they only went about 2/3 of the way up my ass.

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, 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.

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..

I love you and I am going to read that entire series, just not tonight.

that blog is 100% wrong btw. trust me.

whatevs i am down for the vanity sizing trend please keep it up so i can keep that ass fat

where does one get apc jeans anyway (in loldon)

Any of you know about the APC New Cure/Very Tight Jeans thing? I'm a 30.5 waist (muscle, big ass, package sticks out), and I decided on a 31 waist since I'm a 31 in other "skinny" fits. Good idea? I read those jean dork messageboards and they always say to size down ... though these jeans I'm buying don't happen to be raw denim.

Anyone know?

package sticks out

ha.

why dont you go to the apc store and try em on burt_stanton

It's the new stuff on the website that sells out in a day, and the store in SoHo is always sold out of my size range. I can always just return 'em.

Here's some Levis 514s I sold last year. If the jeans are any tighter it looks like I shoved a grapefruit down the front and I'm wearing some kind-of ass implant like in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/mzing12/Picture025.jpg

lol burt

<3

I'm wearing APC's size 31 right now and I'm def not skinny

i'm about to fit into my skinny jeans when i do, i'm going to post pictures and you're all going to love them

;]

i just love how much she cares

http://www.dlisted.com/node/27616/images/spl43131_005.jpg

do those other paparazzi really think they're gonna be able to sell photos of her back?

maybe if it was j.lo or francois sagat

those are quite unflattering, btw.

no but they best is when she rolls them up!

http://www.dlisted.com/node/27631/images/katiepark6.jpg

so mom

http://www.dlisted.com/node/27631/images/katiepark6.jpg

Yeah, I've been kinda weirded out by seeing those photos and thinking the pegged cuffs look nice -- a thought I don't want to follow to its logical conclusion or anything.

P.S. in response to this picture from Colette way upthread --

http://bp2.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R_zkRGQgcUI/AAAAAAAADPE/WNXvMaAu_sI/s1600-h/BluJ1web.jpg

Am I the only one who intensely dislikes this habit with women's jeans to have the hem swallow the shoe entirely? It bugs me even without total swallowing, like when jeans are worn with heels and the back hem drops almost to where the heel meets the ground.

so basically, you do not like a trouser cut/fit.

i think on the right person it is very elongating/slimming, though i do not like too much flare.

I don't care for it on jeans, especially when the jeans fit up top not in a trousery way, but in a low/tight regular-jeans way. But maybe I just associate it too much with over-made-up women standing outside downtown bars on Saturday nights, or whatever.

i agree, if you have a trouser leg, you should have a more normal waist. honestly, i don't think anyone should be wearing the low low waist muffin top butt crack thong showing shit, and that's not just bc i can't pull it off.

It's a very fashionista look, and therefore much copied by the weekend crowd. Unfort for the weekenders, the original fashion-plate wearers are more like the woman who crowed about being too small for the clothes at Jil Sander: People who think a 6 is time to go on a diet.

i like the look -- and the bag in that photo!

I don't like when the whole show is swallowed very much either but I love wide-leg trouser style jeans in general. I want that bag soooo much.

I am so confused by Katies jeans. Is this going to become a thing? I don't know if I'm ok with that.

i actually like a tight pant that swallows a lot of the shoe. is that outlandish?

Honestly I think the safest way to wear wide-legged pants is with flats. I can imagine lots of good versions of pants with heels but there's always the risk crossing the line into what Nabisco is talking about. If you're not sure or you're chubby and happy about it or etc, safest is go to with nice pointy low shoes that will peep out but not make you look like you're disguising another 4 inches of height under there.

Also I have several times caught a heel in deep trouser cuffs, once resulting in my falling down the PATH stairs at Grove Street. No thanks! Not after last time!

i would like the bag w/out that fringe

UGH i know, so true. those royal blue leather bags have been making the rounds in the last few years.

i keep seeing lots of awesome bags but there will be one or two details, like random bits of fringe or a chain hanging off, that are deal-breakers for me.

That happens to me all the time with shoes, too! Being picky keeps my expenditures down, though. Phew.

oh, yeah i got a whole slew of these kinds of jeans in photos at Paris fashion week in feb 08...

http://streetpeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_5069.JPGhttp://streetpeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/img_4798.JPG

first is an editor at harpers bazaar second is i think veronique branquinho the antwerp designer...

although gucci has been doing this thing with like one big dramatic tassle off the end? which i actually love

Honestly I think the safest way to wear wide-legged pants is with flats.

^^^

Yes. I've only ever worn mine with flats. Also the pants in question are proper trouser style up top too. None of that "low waist muffin top butt crack thong showing shit." Yuck.

Flats or let's say, a nice 1-2" wedge heel like an espadrille. But obv that's way more summery, not for the whole tight-tight-tight-FLARED thing like Ms Blue Bag up there.

i dunno, i always feel sexy w/ a trouser leg and heels/heeled boots. i find that w/ flats, you have to hem them, and they lose some of the cool shape created by the trouser leg.

re: the katie photo: i think that's an example of the "boyfriend" jean.

ftr i do not like how the lady in phil's 2nd pic is wearing those jeans.

haa yes and i love her for it xp

i hate the pants-swallowing-the-shoe look when the pants in question are tight flares, like in that original photo. with wide-legged, high-waisted jeans/trousers, it's not as bad.

yeah me neither so much, but damn i love that Margiela coat... i like the first lady though. xp

also, at this point, i hate jeans with heels (not heeled boots, mind you). hate hate hate.

xp yeah, margiela coat - swoon.