Apparently we’re all supposed to be loving faded jeans right now. They are all over magazines, shop windows, advertising campaigns, style blogs, the Sunday papers are telling us What’s Hot and they’re it…the super light faded jeans are absolutely everywhere it seems, except on our bottoms. Is it just me? In the last few days I could have missed a solar eclipse because I’ve been intently scanning your bottoms and I haven’t actually seen anyone wearing them apart from one teenager in Surry Hills (where else) who had somewhat haphazardly revived an old pair of 501’s.
Truth be told, I get a lot of girls in my store who are wonderfully proportionate, thin and gorgeous, and even these gifted types are having trouble with faded jeans. One pretty, tiny girl who wears a size 24 (yes that’s right folks…24 is her size, not age) tried on a pair of fabulous light coloured mid rise skinny jeans and thought she looked fat. She wasn’t saying it to be mean to me (I am rather ample compared to a 24…can’t complain though, I love my afternoon chocolate fix), or so that I would reassure her for hours on end about how amazing she looks. She really meant it.
That makes me think…what chance does a size 28 have? What about girls with thighs and jungle booty’s? Or girls with thick waists and pot bellies? What about if, like me, you happen to have unfortunately short legs? Must we all shun the faded jeans and pretend we never saw the What’s Hot page? And if so…how long before we’re ousted from fashion society?
Think about this…the little tiny girl looked HOT in the faded skinny’s. Not fat, not short, not weird or like a slave to fashion, she looked 100% amazing and could strut her stuff down the street in those fine looking jeans tomorrow if she wanted to, and turn plenty of heads. That’s what I thought. That’s what you would have thought too. But she looked in the mirror and saw herself look strangely different from what she usually looks like in her dark blue skinny’s. Just like everyone thought they looked weird and fat and all bottom when high waisted jeans came in last year…and just like everyone thought they looked all hips and fat thighs when skinny jeans came in a few years back. You can see the pattern right? Each time it takes me months and months to convince people they looked great, just different. So you see, the whole faded jeans thing is not about being skinny or fat, it’s about change.
Plus if you look fat I’ll tell you.
Don't fight the fade....
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I'm an early adopter- but at the risk of showing my age, I'll admit to having done the faded AND stretchy jeans in the 80's and happy to be leaving them then. You see, I'm a pear shape. A pear made of wax melting in the sun as the years go by. And though I love change, this is one I leave to the size 24 girls. and 26. and even 28.
Poor girl - sometimes the mirror has two arses.
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