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To ask what you think of mom jeans?

124 replies

Allinadaystwerk · 11/07/2020 13:16

My daughter got me to try some on and...
To my surprise, I like them! What are your goes on mom jeans?

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namechangetheworld · 11/07/2020 15:37

I love them on other people and wish I could pull them off. I definitely can't.

U2HasTheEdge · 11/07/2020 15:37

I love the look of them but sadly they do not suit me. I wish they did.

MikeUniformMike · 11/07/2020 16:11

I don't understand the love for wide cropped trousers, ankle-grazers, and the god-awful french tuck. all might look fine if you are built like a model, but not if you look like me.

Mom jeans remind me of the 1980s.

Craftycorvid · 11/07/2020 16:19

I like them and buy vintage which suits me as I’m smaller in the waist, bigger hips. The only thing with vintage is denim so stiff they’d stand up on their own! Grin. I wear mine with neat tops that end at the waist and a more fitted top half generally otherwise it looks like a badly tied paper bag in there, also very dated.

Nighttimefreedom · 11/07/2020 16:24

I've got a pair I'm getting used to wearing them. The thing is you need completely different tops to what you'd wear with skinnies, something slim or tucked in.
I have a few outfits now and rarely go for my skinnies now.

boymum9 · 11/07/2020 16:28

The Topshop "premium" mom jeans are great but often out of stock, I have a pair of the normal ones and they're so uncomfortable and don't look great on me in my opinion, the premium ones have some stretch and are a slimmer fit and look nicer at the back I think! The denim is really soft

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 11/07/2020 16:35

I don’t think they are very flattering at all

My friend pointer put her fanny looks long and her bum flat in them had to agree

I like jeans to have a higher waist

Light blue jeans are not great if you have big thighs

DidoLamenting · 11/07/2020 16:42

@AnyFucker

Unflattering to pretty much everyone, sorry
Agreed. Very few people actually look good in jeans. I don't understand the appeal of a boring, ubiquitous garment which flatters hardly anyone.
ShebaShimmyShake · 11/07/2020 16:50

These are the wide at the top, narrow at the ankle ones? Hate them. The only people they look good on are the ones who'd look good in a bin bag.

GrumpyHoonMain · 11/07/2020 16:53

They are designed for curves - if you don’t have a defined waist then they won’t look great.

RedLlama · 11/07/2020 16:54

I think they are hideously unflattering

OscarWildesCat · 11/07/2020 16:58

Horribly unflattering on the majority of people but if you like them, wear them? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Chocolateandamaretto · 11/07/2020 17:00

I have a small waist and I large bum and they make my bum look even bigger. Don’t like them at all!

managedmis · 11/07/2020 17:03

Who is supposed to look good in them?

don't say mom

TheCrowFromBelow · 11/07/2020 17:05

Had to google.
My eyes! Acid and stone wash seems to be back.
Having uncomfortable flash backs to my teens.

AltogetherAndrews · 11/07/2020 17:05

Surely they are called mom jeans because they are the awful, unflattering things our mothers wore in the 80s/90s? As worn by young hipsters who appear to have hit the charity shops to find the ugliest clothes they can find? Fine if that’s what you are going for, but I’m going to stick with clothes actually designed to look nice, rather than “ironic”

JizzPigeon22 · 11/07/2020 17:07

Love mine. I look great in them.

aquashiv · 11/07/2020 17:09

Omfg Banarama jeans. Not a chance in hell will I wear those. They're hideous.

Bluntness100 · 11/07/2020 17:09

Even models struggle to make them look good. In real life I’ve never sen anyone who does make them look good. They are Called mom jeans as they are literally those unflattering jeans moms used to wear.

Bluntness100 · 11/07/2020 17:12

I just were them rolled up with a cropped white shirt

Is that all you can wear them with?

ShebaShimmyShake · 11/07/2020 17:14

@GrumpyHoonMain

They are designed for curves - if you don’t have a defined waist then they won’t look great.
My narrow waist is one of my few redeeming features and I look like a sack of spuds in them!
SantanaBinLorry · 11/07/2020 17:16

Eurgh. Thet's an ugly pair of strides.

Blondiney · 11/07/2020 17:20

Yeah, they completely steamroller my arse. Easily the most unflattering jeans style I've ever had the misfortune to try one. They disgust me.

They must look good on someone though, right???

SallyWD · 11/07/2020 17:22

I'm a pear shape and think they'd make my bottom half look even bigger. I'm not that keen but if they suit you then go for it!

chunkyrun · 11/07/2020 17:23

I love them, wear them with a tucked in top