Three Reasons Why I’ll Never Wear Skinny Jeans @ Girl-Doll Fashion Gossip

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I know they are the rage. I know they look adorable. But I won’t be caught wearing skinny jeans in this lifetime. I have my reasons, and while they make perfect sense to me, you might have a totally different take on the matter. Different styles are what make fashion so fun.

Skinny Jeans Are Called Skinny for a Reason

I’m convinced that the term “skinny jeans” refers not only to the cut of the legs, but the shape of the person wearing them. Now, looking around the locker room on an average day, perhaps 10% of the girls in the room truly have skinny legs, hips and backsides. The rest are shaped in their own way.

Perhaps they are short with sturdy legs. They might be tall and muscular, including their powerful thighs. They might be curvy in all the right places. They might be curvy in a few extra places as well. There are shapes and sizes of every kind in the locker or dressing room. Since I’m not one of the ones you’d look at and call truly “skinny” I figure “skinny” jeans must not be for me.

Skinny Jeans Don’t Stay Up Well

It might be just my personal experience, but the low cut nature of the skinny jeans plus the stretch that is in the denim fabric makes them extra comfortable and ultra saggy after a while. The end result is that the jeans seem to stretch out during the day that you’re trying to wear them, and you spend most of the afternoon trying to make the back of your pants stay up high enough to prevent plumber’s crack.

Sure, baring thongs and such is fun for rock starlets, but leaning over a Bunsen burner while yanking stretchy skinny pants back into place doesn’t rank highly on my list of fun things to do every day. If you want to argue that wearing a tunic solves the visibility problem, I’ll give you partial credit. Others might not see the slippage, but you’ll still know it’s there. And nothing is more annoying than wanting to fix what you know you really can’t during the course of the day.

Skinny Jeans Look Awesome with Skinny Heels

Look at most advertisements and you’ll see lovely ladies wearing skinny jeans with terrifically stylish stiletto heels. Sure sometimes they wear furry boots over the skinny jeans or maybe a stylish flat, but I think the best look for the skinny jean is the skinny heel. Unfortunately, for the amount of walking I do around campus and such, skinny heels are out. And somehow my comfy shoes that look so good with regular jeans just don’t look as good with skinny jeans. So for the sake of my Converse and Vans, I shall wear jeans that don’t fall into the skinny variety. It’s a sacrifice worth making.