tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718743594504287977.post461681103948102835..comments2024-02-02T04:26:58.941-08:00Comments on My Year Without Spending: Jeans made in heaven?Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16599239118658166008noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718743594504287977.post-38621688203831897022009-02-23T18:25:00.000-08:002009-02-23T18:25:00.000-08:00whoops! make that bell-bottomed... wonder what bel...whoops! make that bell-bottomed... wonder what bellow-bottomed pants would look like...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718743594504287977.post-65064700374505160002009-02-23T18:23:00.000-08:002009-02-23T18:23:00.000-08:00Marylyn- Woo hoo- I have GOT to see a photo of you...Marylyn- <BR/>Woo hoo- I have GOT to see a photo of you in the pinstriped bellow-bottomed hip huggers. I actually wear skirts a lot more often than jeans, but I actually like blue denim and even have a couple of jean skirts. They're pretty stylish now- one jean skirt has beads and the other has embroidery in the pattern of large flowers. I always get lots of compliments.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599239118658166008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718743594504287977.post-73329141993402664722009-02-23T09:55:00.000-08:002009-02-23T09:55:00.000-08:00OK, I'm in my fifties. Jeans were NOT the biggest ...OK, I'm in my fifties. Jeans were NOT the biggest thing for me at all. My thing was finding black, lacy-patterned pantyhose, or even stockings, to go with my short dresses. Think London in the 1960s. I always thought jeans were...very unfashionable. If I wore pants, I wore leather ones or pin-striped, bell-bottomed hip-huggers. I never have reconciled with jeans. I tell myself they are supposed to be the relaxed-but-goodlooking pant, but I never feel right in them, and it's not because they don't fit. I have ALWAYS gotten mine at thrift shops or consignment shops. I agree with Bliss-- it takes just as much time to find a pair that fits in a thrift store. You have to try them all on. But my thrift store has hundreds. I like to buy the ones in colors-- maroon, brown, black. I just don't like that blue-jean look, for some reason. To me jeans are pants to work in, hike in, and to mess around the house in, but NOT to go out in. I only have one pair of blue ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718743594504287977.post-33543279355626458302009-02-22T16:09:00.000-08:002009-02-22T16:09:00.000-08:00As a grown-up I, like most women, have had jean en...As a grown-up I, like most women, have had jean envy. Everybody always had jeans they loved. Everybody except me! I had heard for a couple of years about 7 For All Mankind but I absolutely refused to pay over $100 for a pair of jeans. Until one day I broke down and tried them on. OMG! They fit amazingly. I was won over although still dismayed by the price tag. But I've owned 2 pairs over the last 8 years (I can go days wearing them over and over!) and still feel like they were worth the investment. I'm glad I'm not in the market right now though, I've yet to see them in my thrift stores!<BR/><BR/>My husband on the other hand is thrilled at the idea of hitting the thrifties for his jeans this year! Go figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718743594504287977.post-21022699804646012672009-02-21T20:08:00.000-08:002009-02-21T20:08:00.000-08:00I am struggling with jeans too. I don't think you...I am struggling with jeans too. I don't think you can find the perfect pair. I think the marketing people know we all want the perfect pair and they all just say they make the perfect pair. If we think something is unatainable, we will keep searching and buying things, hoping to fulfill our dreams. This means more money spent trying. <BR/><BR/>Lately, I have heard, to get something to fit, most people have to have things altered. The only way to get a "perfect" fit. <BR/><BR/>I have one pair that I am really liking right now. I don't know if they will last through my year without buying anything. On the bright side for you, I did find them at Goodwill. It takes just as much time to find second hand jeans as it does if you are buying new. <BR/><BR/>In my 20's my favorite jeans were old Levi's handed down from my then boyfriend. They did eventually rip beyond repair.<BR/><BR/>I agree with your "blankie" theory!Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00923916300615463241noreply@blogger.com