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Jeans That Make You Look a Size Smaller (Really!)

01/01/2007 at 06:00 AM ET

What to do when you overindulge on Christmas cookies or have one too many latkes and can’t get to the gym to start working off the extra holiday pounds? Well, you can try a pair of Not Your Daughter’s Jeans, which features a special Lycra panel that claims to suck you in, tuck away those naughty rolls and let you wear one size smaller. I was so intrigued by the concept I even canceled my gym membership — but perhaps a tad too soon. It took me three tries before I found a pair that didn’t make me feel like a sausage. But eventually I settled on a pair of “Denim like Cashmere” and they are indeed, soft, stretchy and a size smaller than my usual pair of Sevens. On the other hand, my 60-something-year-old mom says of her pair, “I feel younger. I feel like they give me a nice figure. They’re cute and comfortable.” Her one complaint is that she wishes they had a higher waistband. Over all, the verdict is a thumbs up from both mother and daughter, but I think I’m still going to renew the membership at the gym. — Caryn Midler

Photo: Courtesy of Nordstrom.com

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justme on March 19th, 2007

I have to laugh at most of the comments here because they remind me of my own young, ignorant and narcissistic self thirty years ago. We, too, thought “hip huggers” looked good on everyone, and if they didn’t look good on you, you needed to lose some weight.

When the flared hip huggers went “out” in the late ’70s and the tapered-leg, high-waisted look came “in” I rebelled as long as I could because I thought the tapered legs made me look like a chicken. But eventually the weight of peer pressure wore me down – well actually it was mostly that they stopped making flares and hip huggers – and I got used to the new style until it seemed normal and the old style started to seem dated and funny looking.

When flares and hip huggers came back in I rolled my eyes and laughed. These things go in cycles, kids, and you don’t have any say in it; it’s at the whim of the fashion industry. Apparently the ’80s styles are coming back in now. Get used to it and deal. Go buy your high-waisted, tapered jeans, your Oxford shirts (be sure to turn the collars up) and your scrunchy white boots now before the price goes up. And start imagining how you’ll look with big hair so it won’t come as such a shock. Go rent Working Girl and some John Hughes movies to get an idea of what you have to look forward to.

Now, if only boys’ jeans that are so baggy they look like clown pants and show their ugly underwear would go back out of style. I mean, come on, that Marky Mark ad was what, fifteen years ago? Enough already!

L on April 9th, 2009

The only thing that makes people look good is to eat right and get adequate exercise, not wear mom jeans with a built in girdle. Those are not flattering.

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