Do you find high waisted jeans comfortable?

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This last year there’s been a lot of people saying they haven’t been wearing jeans in lockdown as they are ‘so uncomfortable’. Since high waisted styles are pretty much all prevalent these days I assume such people are wearing high waisted jeans. I personally have never been able to wear high waisted jeans, they constrict my stomach and induce painful trapped wind (sorry, tmi). I can only wear low rise (at least two inches below my belly button) but then I find them comfortable to wear all day, including as casual wear at home.

I know high waisted jeans are very popular but am interested in whether that’s because that is what is available and fashionable, or whether people are in fact secretly cursing them?

I’m cursing them!! Don’t find them comfortable at all!!

They're practically under my boobs - not comfortable at all.

I love high waisted jeans. I find the higher waistband much more comfortable because of where it falls on my body. I wore some old jeans this week that has a much lower waistband and they were continually falling round and digging into the wrong bits.

I really love them! I hate my mum tum and the high waist keeps it all tucked in nicely

I love them. Always have. HATE low rise.

I struggle with them too, I feel like I’m being cut in two when I sit down in them!

I have a high waist so I'm in heaven. So comfy and sit right. When hipsters were fashionable it was impossible for me to wear them. I looked awful and they fell straight down

I love them. They suit my shape. I find them so much comfier than low rise.

I find high waisted much more comfortable personally so am glad they are back in fashion

I never liked the ones that sit so low on your hips that if you bend over people can practically see your bum crack!

No. Low waist jeans just aren’t what they’re billed as. They are hip jeans. Waists are (anatomically) much higher.

I have a long torso (not tall, just annoyingly proportioned!), most high waisted jeans don't actually come up to my waist.

Unfortunately, it also means that no -high waisted look almost 'low rise'. And no matter how trendy that may be currently, I have no desire to go back to 2003 😂

I like the silhouette of higher waisted jeans.

I love them - I don't have to spend the whole day hoicking them back into place because they are actually held up by my hips. But I have a couple of slightly tighter pairs which are not so comfortable.

I like them but never wear to work as I don't find them comfy for sitting down for 8hrs in!

I hate them - they always slip down and give me a droopy gusset. Grim.

I like them.

They hold everything in and keep you warm. I'm apple shaped so the only alternative is low cut which sit on my hips.

Anything in between just gives me a tyre around my middle.

I do size up though to ensure comfort.

I hate them. Uncomfortable and I get trapped wind like you OP. I also don't understand how they keep people's tummys tucked in?? Mine always looks even worse like I'm 6 months pregnant again! Low rise suit me much better. I'm so sad they aren't in fashion anymore.

I love them, because I have a fat belly, so they sit above that and help support everything.

I’m an hourglass so as long as they are not too big on the waist I find them very comfortable
My worst recent pair are M n S lily far too big and stretchy on waist - even with a belt I’m hoiking them up all the times
Curve appeal from tkmaxx fit me well as do wrangler

I never used to find any jeans comfortable but low rise were the worst as they dig in right in the middle and then the muffin top spills over. At least high rise sits on the waist and holds in the flab.
However losing weight has made a big difference and some jeans are now pretty comfortable. Still wouldn't choose them for all day and still wouldn't choose low rise pretty much ever.

I love them too and the definitely fit me best. They help to hold in my apple tummy and give me a good shape, and they stay in place. I also wear granny knickers because I find it much, much more comfortable to have a band round my waist than round my hips. I find low rise waistbands put pressure on me in uncomfortable places, notably my bladder, and just feel like they’re dividing me up wrong! I guess we’re all different, anatomically and in what we’re used to. Personally I’m praying high waists never go out of fashion.

I love them but I think it’s to do with your shape? I’m an apple and the high waist ones sit right.

Make sure you’re getting the right size too.

I find high rise much more comfortable than mid or low rise. But I think it depends on your body shape - I have big hips, small waist.

I have a pair of ‘high waist’ jeans from Boden. The denim is great quality and very soft. I find them extremely comfortable. As another poster said, the term isn’t accurate. They are actually on the waist, rather than the hips, so not high waisted really.

Love them. Just bought 2 pairs of Levi's from John Lewis. Very flattering for my shape

I love high waisted jeans. I’m pear shaped. Low waisted jeans are no good for me.