There are two reasons your jeans slide down your butt and need to be hiked up as you walk your children up the stairs to their classrooms.
The first is that you’ve seamlessly integrated a healthy regimen of yoga, meditation and mindful kale-eating into your daily life that the pounds have melted off without your noticing, so focused are you on what’s truly important in your oneness with the world.
The other is that, in the insanity of modern life–in my case, divorcing, moving, refurnishing, refurbishing, earning a living, caring for two kinetically energetic 8-year-olds and standing under the smoke alarm waving a piece of cardboard every time I try to cook in my new apartment–you’ve had a few too many what-the-hell moments. The pants are sliding down not because they are so roomy but because your belly is more comfortable sitting atop the waistband, rather than being painfully bisected by it. They bag a bit in the butt, because the butt part of the jeans is now closer to your upper thighs, but no belt is going to help you now.
Second category over here.
Photo by The Giant Vermin CC
May 20, 2011 at 5:10 pm
I prefer to blame the formerly formerly hot who are currently in charge of creating the fashion must-do’s and insist on patternmaking that fits the hipless wonders that are their children. I wrote an entire piece on this for ThirdAge, which never saw the light of day. I’m thinking suspenders…or a rope belt like my great grandfather wore.
May 27, 2011 at 11:46 pm
OMG! I was just complaining about this very thing the other day! I can’t find a pair of jeans that actually fit like they’re supposed to anymore. I know they don’t make jeans like they did when I was young and skinny, but, come on! Not everyone can comfortably wear those hipsters they make nowadays. One of the younger girls at work (25) was commenting on how us older chicks (I’m 35) need to wear our jeans lower. I told her that if I wore them lower 1.) They would cut me in half 2.) My flab would spill out over the top of them, and 3.)They would fall off. I miss being able to find clothes that fit well.
June 9, 2011 at 3:57 pm
I was listening to an interview on Oprah Radio today with you and how you explained that we “FHs” give up fashion for comfort. So true. Oddly, my husband of the past 3 years and I are both anti-belt. I swear if i wear one now, it gives me a stomach ache. So unfortunately for my family members, my jeans ride down and they get views of my comfortable underwear. I usually wear a tank top under t-shirts and that covers the gaps. Oh, yeah.