It's Friday night, so I am going to bring down the level of discussion on the blog...sorry guys! So here are my denim suggestions to get the ball rolling...
Deener denim - They have a bit of give (but they aren't stretch denim), so they are a bit forgiving in the hip region (although the calves are a bit tight). They are an LA company, but I have only seen them in NY, so here is the website...
http://www.deenerdenim.com/
I also recently discovered Martin + Osa's jeans...they are very forgiving, they come in different lengths and they do free alterations if needed...they might not have the cool cache of some brands, but they did have the best white denim that I could find.
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Paige jeans also has some great skinnies to check out.
http://www.paigepremiumdenim.com/
You can get walked through a personal fitting with Paige, or resist her evaluation and go with :
WOMENS BLUE HEIGHTS - BLACK OVERDYE
I tried these on and found them to be a great skinny pair that verges on the cigarette cut, but inhabits that small space of the skinny jean that makes the cut!
Paige jeans do fit quite well, I've noticed.
I've tried on Martin + Osa's; they don't fit the bootie like I'd like them to.
Friday night nerdistry.
xo
Why is it that women's jeans are apparently waging a war on the hip/butt/calf etc. regions? Are they in league with dieting products to promote "women's lifestyle"-type commodities (i.e., the jeans are promoting dieting products by inducing in women a lucrative self-awareness that they are too large/cumbersome to fit into the "ideal" youthful blueprint held out to them by the jeans)?
Or, is it the case that the jeans manufacturers are complicit with the "Male Gaze" and its intended effect of "objectifying" women and girls, and that the effect they are going for is a (painfully) skin-tight look that sexualizes the female body by clinging closely and throwing its proverbial "curves" into relief, providing a sort of ideal "silhouette" (or sublimation) of the "naked" body?
Or, in a more Bordo-esque, paradoxical, rarefied, philosophical line of thinking, is this a continuation of a rhetoric that wishfully denies materiality and the bodily (and women and the "corruptible body" are most closely associated historically/traditionally, and so the war on materiality is most pronounced in the female category), and the "unforgivingness" (to use Kate's term) of the jeans is a kind of disciplining of the body's lewd flabbiness, a kind of strategy of containment of waste, a sublimating of the corruptible body into a *clean* outline that tolerates no wastefulness, no excess?
At any rate, it does seem as though the women's jeans manufacturers are sadistically bent on inducing the utmost degree of body-self-consciousness in women by making it a competitive enterprise to fit into a pair of their jeans... Why not rebel and wear scrubs?
Thoughts anyone?
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