There are more options when buying blue #jeans than when buying a car. After eleven months of Weight Watchers, it was time for me to treat myself to a smaller size pair of blue jeans. It’s been several years since I purchased jeans. Trends have changed and the options have grown.

I’ll start with the waist. I found super high-rise, high-rise, high-rise mom jeans (there’s a selling point, NOT), mid-rise, low-rise, and super low-rise. I don’t like high-rise jeans. They come up to my belly button when I’m standing and scooch higher when I sit. That helped me eliminate three options. And I’m not young enough or skinny enough for low-rise. There’s two more options eliminated. That left me with mid-rise, just below my belly button. Great, one decision was made.

Now we need to consider the cut. The options were regular, boyfriend, skinny, super-skinny, curvy (another great marketing tool, tell the woman she’s curvy as if she didn’t know), and loose cut. I tend to be regular to skinny, but I like my jeans longer.

Before we head off to the fitting room, there is one more decision to make the bottom of the leg cut. There is boot cut, flare, straight leg, skinny, super #skinny, and welcome back from the 70’s, bell bottoms. I’m typically a straight-leg person, but if the rest of the options work, I could go skinny.

So, off I went to the fitting room with mid-rise jeans of different designers in regular cut, straight and skinny legs. Did I mention that every designer has their own interpretation of all of these options? That’s right, I took seven pairs of jeans to the fitting room and came out with one that worked. I’d like credit for the workout I got putting on and taking off seven pairs of jeans. The real win came when I found out they were half off. Half off! I bought two of the exact same pair. I tried to find other shades of blue or colors, but that sent my head reeling into another dimension of options – dark blue, stone-washed, holes, no holes. It’s a thing.

By the way, I’m from the generation that wore jeans until they got holes in them. We didn’t buy jeans with ready-made holes. The holes in our jeans told a story of the places we’d gone and the things we’d done in our jeans.

There you have it. In two outings shopping, a total of four hours of my life in the last few days was spent on safari in multiple retail stores, hunting, gathering, and trying on blue jeans.

What’s your favorite style, cut, and designer of blue jeans?

All the best,

KK.

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