One of the biggest questions we get asked is how to update your jeans? We’re talking about how to get away from high waisted mom jeans and find a pair of decent pair of jeans for curvy bodies 40+. We’re always on the lookout searching for jeans to make you look fab.
This week we discovered that one of our favorite fashion blogs, The Budget Fashionista has some ideas on this.
See if any of the jeans they suggest might work for you. You can visit them at The Blogging Boomer’s Carnival # 22.
The carnival is a collection of this weeks’ best boomer posts on the net. This week it is being hosted by Gen Plus
It’s taken nearly 3 years for us to finally find a decent pair of low rise jeans that don’t create too much of a muffin top when we zip them up. Now the word in the fashion is…
High waisted jeans are the new thing. These jeans come well up over the tummy, right to the bottom of your rib cage. The only saving grace seems to be that they have a nice wide flared leg to balance things out a little and make your waist seem smaller.
It’s a familiar look if you grew up in the 70′s. Remember Charlie’s Angels and every girl who wore flipped up hair and platform shoes? I’ll never forget the pair of high rise blue satin pants I wore to school dances, and JoJami fondly recalls a maroon pair that she used to go disco dancing in.
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Looked great then, but now?? We’ve seen lots of young celebs like Mischa Barton, Kiera Knightly and Jessica Simpson trying them out and they don’t even look so hot.
Some of you may think that high rise will might your hold your stomach in…but only to a point. The problem is that to pull this look off, you have to tuck the shirt in, YIKES! No good for 40+ women with mommy tummies.
We have found that the best way for us gals to wear this look, is to modify it. If you can find a find wide legged pants with a mid high waist, great. Pair them with a form fitting top that can be left out and you will have a great updated look.
If you want to experiment a little with this look, the flat front nautical look is really cute.
Make sure that if you have big hips, that there are no big pockets on front of the pants to draw attention to them. If they do, and you really like the pants, you can also have the pockets taken out.
The wider the flare, the taller you need to be, and you may have to add a big wedge shoe so you don’t look like a short wide traingle.
The bottom line is: THIS STYLE IS HARD TO WEAR, SO BEWARE of this fashion trend!
Dear Glam Gals,
I was hoping you could tell me where I could purchase the perfect pair of jeans. I have a wide flat butt and a bit of a pooch. Tired of searching if you could lead me in a direction that would be great.
Thanks, Mona
high waisted "MOM" jeans
Where does a modern midlife mama find a decent pair of jeans these days? They’re either cut so low that your jelly belly hangs out and it feels like they may slip off your behind if you sit down too fast, or….
They’re cut so ridiculously high that they remind you of the ultra boring mom jeans that make you look like Frump of The Year.
Thank Goodness for a new website we found called Tummy Tuck Jeans. These jeans come in a variety of body friendly styles and have a unique crisscross panel that promises to flatten your tummy, lift your butt and allow you to wear one size smaller.(sounds like a girdle, but hey, if it works!……)
Great to see vibrant forty and fifty-somethings on this site looking fabulous in these jeans which are both practical and hip.
Check out their spring/summer line which also includes Capris and Bermuda shorts.
