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January 25 , 2006:    Your Favorite Jeans

"Oh Very Young," – Cat Stevens, "House of the Rising Sun," Eric Burden, etc… All mention jeans. We love our jeans and we have, I suspect, since Levi Straus invented the jeans for American that we wore/wear, to live out our real lives in. And then came "designer jeans," first hitting the market hard when Calvin Klein found Brooke Sheilds and had her say, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." That was it, everyone had to have those jeans and the race was on. Remember when jeans for woman were worn with a belt all the way to our waists? Agh! Those hurt me! I didn't find those comfy at all. I went right back to my men's 501's which I bought in highschool, in the only color they made, dark blue, and wore them OUT, as fast as I could. Did you? Did you wash them and wash them, and even perhaps boil them? Did you try anything to make them light blue? I did! Once I discovered that if one was sliding down snow, it bleached the butt of your jeans! The problem with this was that only the butt was bleached! I also learned that when I only had a couple pairs and one was in the washer, the other in the dirty clothes, I should not dry them in the oven because they can burn. I burnt my favorite pair that way once.

I can tell you feel for me. I'd feel for you too! Do you remember your favorite jeans? You may have more than one pair to remember and you may have a favorite now, Now, we have jeans that show it all.

Those that show it all, what some others and I call "sausage jeans," because they are so tight and so low that they create a sausage roll above the top, which is your belly. Those, I did not enjoy. I noticed right away that those can show the then popular thong panties and more. Did you see the tattoos springing up on the backside of women to show when they sat down? How about the special thongs that were meant to show? I passed on both. Then there came the "boy cut," underwear that is hot today. These are sort of full panties, but they fit on the bottom like a thong. These were first intended to show above your sausage jeans too. I passed on those too. I stayed in my men's 501's.

Did you know that if you want 501's or the popular 505", (men's) cut worn in for you, called "boyfriend jeans," you could bid on them on ebay? Yes, it's true; ebay has a whole section of men's pants that are sold often to women who want their jeans broken in for them. Most of the time, a man or woman who has a man with jeans, lists them on ebay as “Boyfriend jeans," referring to the fact that we all like to wear our men's jeans because they are more comfortable, and sell them.

They can sell, depending on the even fading, or the places where ripped, for over $40.00! But if you’ve ever been out of the country, you know that if y0u have worn, men's 501 Levi red tag jeans, you have gold in your suitcase! You can always eat when in some countries if you remembered to pack jeans. They can also help you make friends many, many places. I would pack about a 36 X 34 so I'd meet a man about the size of my husband, 6'4" and 200 lbs., so I liked whom I decided to bestow the jeans upon. It IS a way to meet him, and if you like him, you have his size, right? If you like a smaller man, bring that size, no?

But what do you think of these jeans that are called "low cut?" I, personally, can't see them ever looking good. I have never seen them look good as a matter of fact. I wore them now and again, and although I could make them passable and I had no "sausage roll," I still felt, well…bad in them! I, again, went back to my 501's. Do you wear "low cut?" If so, do they work for you?

The fashion is now to wear them higher on your bod. To fix this problem for those who cannot run out and buy a few 200-dollar pairs of jeans, some companies have come out with long, long T-shirts to cover your "boy shorts," or thong, or tattoo, or whatever you showed before. They are so long they are like dresses! As a matter of fact, a dress would do, but that style, (dresses over pants) is "out," also! Shoot! Problems abound!

What do you think? What do you suggest? Do you have friends who wear those "low cut," jeans? Do you have a daughter who does? Your wife? Your best friend? What do you think of these? Now, as for the "worn in look," which means that you buy your jeans almost ready to fall apart, I'm all for that. Do you know that they are faded more in the middle of the thigh area to make you look thinner? Yep! I'm all for that, the soft, more comfy, worn out look. My only prob. is: They should not cost more as they do, they should cost LESS! They are going to fall off soon anyway! And, if you have a son, a brother, a father, who wears his jeans until the pants are DEAD then sell them those babies right when they are falling into threads!  Make sure they are 501's red tag, not irregular, and beat to hell and cash in!

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