To detest low rise jeans

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Hoist up your breeks! I can see your arse cheeks!

These things do not look at all comfortable yet they seem to be the garment of choice for mothers around here. Then they bend over at toddler group, or put the kids in the car and there it is! An arse almost fully out in public! Not to mention the constant yanking to pull em up again. Very unsavoury. AIBU or just hopelessly frumpy in my jeans that start on my actual waist?

I can't wait for them to go out of fashion. I am slimish but always conscious that my belly is not as toned as it might be and they just accentuate it. Plus I am fairly tall with a long body so I really struggle to find tops that are long enough not to leave me with a draughty gap around my middle. They've been in for a decade now. It's surely time for a change.

(Am 36 btw.)

I think low slung jeans are awful. On me, either they cut into me in order to stay up or they fall down and my bum is hanging out. It is very uncomfortable. I think jeans, on the whole, come in the oddest sizes, and will either be far too big when you try them on for the second time, or not fit over your ankle.

I hate them too, having a long body. I recently disovered Next's high waisted jeans and love them, no more dh calling gleefully 'I can see your pants!!!'

I wear lowish rise ones, I find them more comfy and a more flattering shape as they tend to be flat-fronted. I always wear longish tops or a long vest top underneath a shorter one.

BUT at playgroup last week there was a mum who was struggling so much to keep hers up that when she was sat on a chair they ended up so far down that you could see the back of the top of her thigh below where her knicker leg started! I glanced across the room and had to do a double take to figure out that I was seeing. How could she not feel the plastic chair against the back of her leg? When she stood up all was covered. That's the worst I've seen.

I hate them too, as I have a long pelvis and back and low-rise give me a flesh-gap in the middle. I tried on Gap long and lean yesterday, which are allegedly mid-rise: not on me they weren't.

babster I shall hotfoot it to next to see what their high waisted jeans are like.

nappy trousers

the boys look like their trousers are being pulled down by an over filled nappy

they walk like it too

waddle
waddle
squelch
squelch

its worked at getting rid of that "fashion" at DCs school!!

Can you even get proper high waisted jeans anymore? I mean ones that really come up over a muffin top mummy tummy as opposed to the so called high waisted ones that don't.

i am 42 - high rise jeans make me look like an smurf

Another fan of Next high rise here too! Toddler group is the worst place for seeing butt - lots of enthusiastic crawling around after baby whilst wearing hipsters is not a good idea. Seen a lot more of some folk than I need to.

I did have a pair a few years back and they were lovely but I did need a belt.

I have seen some jeans worn round my way (essex) where they barely cover the pubic bone.
And alot of LR jeans on laydeez who really shouldn't (all ages here)

Look at the Nolans in FUs (OOOOHHH how I loved my FUs)
flat stomach, tight waist and so long as you did not vanity size, the perfect smooth profile
FAR better than the muffin top crap of nowadays that all but models and gym instructors have.

YANBU!

I am long of body and they are so awfully uncomfortable. I find it very hard to get jeans that fit properly and sit on th waist. I hat seeing people obviously squeezed into too small low rise jeans -yes I DO mean you! Put it away! All of it! It makes you look fat flabby and horrible!

I'm going to try those next ones someone recommended now,

marks and sparks 'jeggins' come up quite high and are really comfortable

i hated the next ones they were far too tight at the bottom and really not flattering (on me sure they look lovely on others)

I am past the toddler group stage, so, thankfully, this is not something I am treated to often, but used to look especially classy when worn with a thong sticking out of them, I think!

High rise all the way for me, in fact I really, really miss my lovely maternity trousers where the top is like stretchy leggings and the lower bit looks like a normal pair of jeans. I wish there was a version of them just big enough to over a gut instead of a bump!

YADNBU I can't stand em. Spend all day hoiking them up. Mind you I am late 30s so grew up in Levi's that sat comfortably on waist.

Has anyone noticed that jeans that supposedly sit on the waist are not tapered in? They are as wide at re waist as the hip which means I spend all day pulling them up.

M&S do many styles of high-waisteds.

There's only one thing worse than thong-revealing low-rise jeans...

...grubby-grey-thong-revealing low-rise jeans

I've got such a ridiculously long back that I can't tell whats supposed to be low rise and whats high waisted. Numbers of buttons mean nothing!

I love my low rise jeans, I am 5"2 and the right cut makes me look in proportion as it lengthens my top half. I wear a belt and thin, layered, long tops. No thongs (shudder)

Women have waists and hips.
Trousers fit round the waist and are kept up by the hips. Bums remain decently covered.
Once upon a time it was that simple and a normal shaped woman could walk into any shop in the land and buy a pair of trousers.

Then a few misguided souls had their belly button pierced and trouser designers went mad.

YABU. Low rise are the only ones I can stand to wear. I find jeans so uncomfortable and a high waist band on anything is awfully restrictive. If I wore high rise jeans I'd need a different size before and after eating. I don't have a pierced belly button, I don't have a tattoo, I don't wear a thong, I don't let my bum cleavage hang out, I don't have a muffin top, my tops cover my belly.

YANBU I find high waist jeans much more comfortable but have a hard time trying to find any in the local shops.

I love low rise jeans, and my bum never shows.
High waist give me a funny shaped belly.

My sister wears jeans that dont cover her arse, shes not small either and everytime she bends over you get an eye full of her cheese string thong!!!

DH always HAS to look away as it makes him feel sick!! You can actually see her arse cheeks they are that low!!

"They are so comfortable.
I can't wear high waisted jeans, they are hideous and uncomfy."

They are so uncomfortable
I can't wear low waisted jeans, they are hideous and uncomfy.

I have hips and a waist, I also have a long body. Low rise jeans on me are indecent and mid rise cut across my belly and are unbelievably uncomfortable. I am forever having to hitch them up.

There are quite a few high rise jeans around now - BHS Dream Jeans, M & S Per Una and Next spring to mind immediately. My favourite jeans are a pair of Saltworks straight leg jeans I bought in TK Maxx. Sadly they aren't featured on their website, but they are a brilliant fit on my pear shape.

Of course the answer is simple shops could offer high and low rise jeans in a range of styles.
However, choice would mean they couldn't get people to buy new every five minutes to stay in fashion.
Clothes shops dread us buying anything we feel comfortable in and actually wear out.