I just finished the seasonal closet purge, and I heartlessly ditched suits I bought just this spring – not even because they no longer fit, or had worn out – because I had grown to hate them.
I can’t turn my back on old jeans, though. You see here a progression of jeans, from 16w to 20w. This is several years worth of jeans. I think I must look back on them like old photos. See those18Ms? I wore that to Niagara Falls.
A confession: I kept my size 8 jeans from college for years.
6 responses to “I Hoard Jeans”
I am, right now, exactly the opposite. I have two pairs of size 42 jeans – that’s 42 women’s, baby, not a 42 waist – that when I put them on, fall straight down to the floor, not even bothering to stop at my giant hips. I keep then because I claim that “when I have a little extra money” I’ll take them to a tailor, and finally have a pair of jeans that fits my waist and isn’t skin tight on my thighs. The truth is that I just like knowing that I’m not jabba-the-hut fat any more, but am a more reasonable level of fat, now.
I cannot imagine what I’d be like if I had ever been skinny.
So keeping smaller sizes of jeans – pretty par for the woman course, I’d say.
I have those same Westport jeans. I luv them.
I got a pair of size 18 LLBean jeans (with a little stretch) that fit me perfectly. Call them mom jeans. I don’t care.
I can now pull some of my pre-pregnancy pants off without unbuttoning them. Yay!Too bad baby means I can’t afford clothes that fit. I need to at least lay out some bucks for a few good belts. I look like a total slob at work.(We’ll see how long this lasts.)
Denim with elastane – oh yeah, baby! The perfect marriage of youth cool and middle-aged practicality.
Tami – Gary keeps his old jeans too. But, he is kind of a woman about some things. Candy – They are pretty roomy on me. It’s a new experience.Hattie – Only thing worse than me in my Mom jeans would be me in teenager jeans. I wear my Mom jeans with pride. Caroline – Oh, that is a good feeling. And the first time you use the big saftey pin. Big Dot – So is elastane NZ for Spandex? That sounds classier.