I don’t get it. What was the point of comparing your pants sizes?
Booty is in the eye of the beholder?
42 waist 30 inseam is “B52”*
*Inside joke that I hope Airman gets.
Seriously, those who live in glass houses…
blowero,
Doh! :smack: Because there was another paragraph there that I must have erased or something…gar. I’m a dork.
As many other posters have already mentioned, it can be hellish shopping for jeans - I used to buy boy’s jeans all the time, since apparently I’m the only woman with my shape. Certain stores have finally started, within the last couple of years, to sell stuff for us tall women… my point was that for a lot of women, clothing is a much more complex area than sexual/ non-sexual (whatever that would be…maybe a muumuu with quilted cows or something), and can often be affected by logistics - sizes, costs, etc.
Eh, it made more sense the first time around. In the end, Airman, it’s simply not fair or correct to ascribe such judgements to anyone - some people may be more judgemental than others, but that’s not tied to gender. You’re telling me what I think when I see a woman dressed ‘skankily’, and no one appreciates that.
Bullshit. If women dressed because they liked how it felt, they wouldn’t wear heels or constantly complain about bras and other bits of clothing that wasn’t comfortable. They may like the way they look, but that is due to social factors, i.e Dressing based off expectations of your peers. Put it another way; Women dress for other women, as a sign of status or to impress others with their sense of fashion, or simple because other women are doing it, and to not be doing it would be a Faux Pas.
Women dressing to impress other women: Sexy
Women dressing to impress guys: skanky
Of course, only to another woman. To Guys it is different. Skanky becomes sexy to us, and women dressing to impress women is just plain old boring clothes. Though in the extreme cases I would agree that there is too skanky and over the top.
Best line I ever heard:
Random Joe: Why do women bother with jewlery, guys could give a shit…
Friend of Random Joe: Women don’t wear jewelry for guys, they wear it for women. Just like guys don’t drive big trucks to impress women, they do it to impress other guys.
Clothing is the same. Except in the cases of the “skanks” They could care less about impressing other women, and just go for impressing the guys.
Bullshit right back. Firstly, most women? Wear clothes they’re comfortable in. How many women do you know that wear heels and don’t like it? I wear heels because they give my ankles a nice lift when I’m dancing, and they make my legs look great. If I didn’t like them? I wouldn’t wear them.
You seem to be basing your ideas of women and women’s fashion on Sex and the City.
No, I seem to be basing them off 99% of women I have met. Work, school, friends, this message board, etc. Just because a few freaks like you deviate from the norm means jack shit. I have never watched Sex and the City, in fact I watch no television, unless you count a movie now and again through netflix.
You don’t know how often I hear the ladies in the pharmacy complain about womens clothing. I always hear women at school complain about bras and heels, as well as pany hose. The girls at work constant take off their heels because walking around in them all day is uncomfortable. I can give more and more anectdotes, I can even give name is you so desire. Most of the time I get tired of hearing them complain. Ask them why they wear the heels anyhow? Because it is fashinable and they just HAVE to look good.
Oh, and now many times have I heard that bras must have been invented by a guy as revenge against something.
Heh, but because YOU enjoy it, I must get my fashion sense from some lame mind rotting TV show. Sure.
Route 66 “reverse fit” (can never figure out why pants that fit a “normal” woman with a small waist and larger hips would be called ‘reverse’ but anyway) are THE best fitting jeans.
And best of all, they sell them at wally world, and for not too many duckets either.
They’re awesome. If you’re a woman with actual hips that are approximately 8-10 inches bigger than your waist especiallly.
I remember some short-lived television show a few years back that I think was hosted by a guy named Dennis Prager (sp?) He wanted to illustrate the difference between how men and women reacted to accidental exposure of the opposite sex. He showed a film to a group of women where a man’s pants “accidentally” fell down while out in public. (He was wearing shorts.) The women laughed hilariously. Then he showed a group of men a clip of two women parked by the side of the road bent over the trunk of their ostensibly disabled car and trying to pull out their spare tire. A gust of wind blew their dresses up over their heads, revealing a great deal about the shape of their legs and the type of panties they were wearing. No one laughed. Prager said this illustrated a key difference between men and women: that when a man’s pants fall down women laugh, but when a woman’s skirt blows up, men…don’t laugh. And the way he said we “don’t laugh” spoke volumes.
But that’s just the way it is. Men and women see things differently.
You know, I was thinking about this thread today as I was walking past a store that sells those trendy hip-hugger jeans, and they had them in the window on mannequins. I seriously think they have special mannequins made for those, because they fit well on the mannequins, but it didn’t look like an actual woman’s body to me.
(not that regular mannequins look like women’s bodies either, but my point is that the ratio of waist to hips seemed to be reduced on those particular ones)
Count me in as another guy who agrees with the OP.
I don’t care how hot the girl is; the “thong hanging out” look is just bad.
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Oh my gawd! Where did you hear him sing that?? And have you heard him do First Crush? He is, truly, one of the funniest men on the planet. I adore him completely. AND – I’ve been to his HOUSE!
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Back on topic - I hate the in-your-face “LOOK AT ME” clothing. Underwear should not be seen, that’s why it’s called UNDERwear. And whoever said Levis has been making the same styles forever is wrong. Old Levis 517 jeans are the natural waistline, boot cut style I’ve worn for a long time, but new 517s are lowriders, and even Superlows. You can no longer find the “original” 517s new.
A skanky outfit is when I can’t help picturing the person wearing it naked-- especially when I don’t want to.
So much to say.
To begin with, I completely agree that shopping for women’s jeans is virtually impossible. I have hips and from the way they make jeans, you’d think I was the only one. I actually go to the Mercado Latino (…latin market 
) and buy stretchy jeans there. They are made for girls with hips and thighs…it’s magical. As far as shopping in the mall…let me just say: a size 16 in one store is a size 12 in another, a size 8 in another, and a 20 in another. God bless America. You think shopping for jeans is hard? Try shorts. As the sizes go up, the shorts just get wider- no extra length.
I agree that very few people look good in this particular trend. All too often, I see girls at school that are my size or bigger and wearing jeans soooo tight that the bottom half of their stomach is totally flat and then there is a good 7 inches of gut hanging out over the top. Oh man. So sexy. :rolleyes:
I prefer jeans that hit slightly below my belly button. As someone else said, it’s one of two extremes- so low you need a wax or up to the collar bone.
It’s awful I tells ya.
Oh…and that brand of tatto- my friends and I call it a “whore tattoo”. It goes along with the hip bone tattoo. I do have a butterfly tattoo on my ankle (it was spur of the moment), so stop hating on the butterfly tattoos. 
3 questions:
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Can the trend legitimately be over without something having replaced it?
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Are we dealing with true skank or just the cattier definition of “anybody sexier than me wearing more revealing clothes than me?”
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If so, did you ever really buy into the thong trend anyway? I’m suspecting not.
Because I just have to dissent on this… a well-built lass showing a bit of fringe is still legitimate in my opinion, as long as she’s not spilling out the top of the jeans like a dollop of soft-serve ice cream bulging over the edge of the cone.
So, anecdotal evidence. Just like I could say that since 99% of the women I know dress to feel comfortable and good about themselves?
Thank you for that left-field ad hominem, but who are you to judge “the norm?”
You obviously don’t live in Los Angeles. 