Here's the skinny

I can’t believe it!

A mere two months after I finally gave in to the trend and bought myself a pair of skinny jeans – jeggings in fact – the look is kicking the bucket.

Long Live the Flared Leg- Toronto Star

Now I’m quite aware that the topic of skinny jeans is absolutely irrelevant to my being single, but I couldn’t help adding it to my postings. It’s a very important topic to me.

Besides, if we look at it in a different light, whether to go skinny or flared could seriously affect the success of a date. For reals.

First of all I’d like to say, I told you so.

Several years ago, when the skinny jean trend first came to be, a friend and I, both from the era of wide-legged jeans, carried on long and detailed chats about the topic. The skinny jean look was really just beyond our comprehension. For one thing, jeans with a tightening at the ankles and calves can’t help but make one’s butt look bigger. It’s just a matter of physics. Secondly, skinny jeans are skinny all over and can’t help but give you a muffin-top look or sausage-like midsection.

My friend and I however, kept mum on the topic. Skinny jeans were all the rage and we didn’t want to reveal our inner old ladies. We just kept quietly wearing our wide-legged jeans and refused to give in to the skinny revolution.

I felt proud to go against the grain actually because I do like fashion and like to think of myself as somewhat stylish, at times. But I’m a practical fashionista. If a style doesn’t make logical sense to me, and doesn’t seem to have longevity for practical reasons, I just won’t do it.

To me, there was nothing ever fashionably practical about skinny jeans. On really skinny girls, they looked alright, but on almost anyone else they created the look of a beanbag on a pair of toothpicks.

Flared or wide-legged jeans on the other hand, do the exact opposite. They hug the hips and butt creating curves and calling attention to the necessary areas, then widen as they reach the floor. This makes our hips and butt look smaller than they actually are, or at least they’re smaller in comparison to our ankles. Isn’t that what we all want?

This style makes a lot more sense to me. I’m pretty sure that most of us have slimmer ankles than backsides anyway so it seems like reverse logic to try and make our ankles look wafer thin and our rears, thighs and mid-sections like big sausage casings.

With flared or bootleg jeans, I don’t think we ever have to concern ourselves that someone might assume we have a skinny behind and really fat ankles.

Even if our ankles are a wee bit on the thicker side, wide-legged pants will cover that up too. It’s a win-win situation.

The only thing I have to do now is figure out what to do with my newish skinny jeans. But actually, since I never really wore them as jeans and used them more as a legging with boots and a long top or sweater, maybe it’s okay.

In the final analysis, if the question is skinny or wide, my vote is go wide or go home.

(Photos courtesy of the Toronto Star: Long live the flared leg)