Monday, November 7, 2011

Pet Peeve: Inadvertant Butt Cleavage

An open letter to all clothing companies that manufacture women's jeans:

Listen, I love that jeans no longer come all the way up to the proper waistline. High-waisted pants are a recipe for massive camel toe and high waisted jeans were all that with a side of being unable to bend from the waist at all. So, yay for low waisted jeans!

HOWEVER, just because I enjoy low waisted jeans does not mean I enjoy giving friends and strangers an intimate view of what underwear I'm wearing that day or, more likely, what the top of my ass looks like. I actually don't know anyone who DOES enjoy doing this, but somehow all low waisted pants seem to make it so that one can't sit down or bend over without doing so. Belts don't really help much in this situation, since women are shaped in such a way that the belt doesn't really have anything to cinch to in low-waisted jeans so it won't keep the jeans from slipping further down the hips to where the butt is visible. Boo to low waisted jeans!

Simple solution though: most low waisted jeans I've seen are built in such a way that if the pants are lying flat, the front and back are level with each other. Given that most women have more going on in the back than they do in the front, this simply doesn't make sense. Constructing jeans that slanted up an inch or so on the sides so that the rise in the back was higher than the rise on the front would solve this little problem beautifully and would be fairly simple, construction wise.

Now now, no need to thank me with large amounts of money. Just a free, lifetime supply of jeans that don't give me a 'coin slot' will be thanks enough.

Sincerely,

Rusty