They're not good for us physically or emotionally. So why do we keep wearing them?
Women's fashion is famously unforgiving on its target audience. And while we've managed to unshackle our waists from whale-boned corsets - unless you what to wear one in which case, you do you - we're still subject to plenty of social conditioning when it comes to what we should and shouldn't wear. Hands up if you've recently suffered stilettos or Spanx? My point exactly. At least the majority of us aren't wearing either of those all day, every day.
Don't know what they are? You almost certainly have several in your wardrobe. As their name might suggest, standing jeans is the term used to describe a pair of jeans that is so tight around your, ahem, vital areas that you can only wear them if you're planning to remain in a vertical position.
Because standing jeans aren't good for us physically or emotionally. I have several pairs. And by standing jeans, I mean jeans that are simply too small for me. And that's ok! But what's not ok is that, before writing this story, I probably would also have said that they're my most 'flattering' jeans. They're extremely high-waisted, designed to hug your smallest point and stretch out your legs. They're fantastic.
I inadvertently did exactly that earlier this summer. Shopping in Uniqlo, I spotted a pair that was a bit of me: high-waisted, cropped at the ankle bone and loosely straight-legged. I took the plunge, trying them on two sizes up from the majority of my denim wardrobe. Guess what? They fit like a dream.
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