High waisted jeans are not comfortable

[Anonymous]

Disagree

I think high waisted jeans are more comfortable than other styles.

If you know you’re doing something like taking a long car ride or playing on the floor with kids, where you want to maximize comfort, get an elastic waist band. While they may not be as stylish, they’re extremely comfortable.

[Anonymous]

I have a pair of AG high rise that are super comfortable, I just wore them on a plane trip. Would not have worn my older mid rises on that sam length trip.I think you just have to try a lot of pairs on and find what you like.

[Anonymous]

Depends on whether you have a long torso or a short one. I have a long torso and I love high waisted jeans. I can completely understand why someone with a short torso would hate them.

[Anonymous]

Short torso here. Hate them. Mid rise is fine, looks like high rise on me. High rise goes up to the boobs

[Anonymous]

I have a long torso and don't notice much difference between mid rise and normal high rise, but I still find midrise more comfortable. I wear a 26 and don't have a belly, loose skin, muffin top, etc. Super high rise pants make me look bigger around the middle.

[Anonymous]

I’m short-waisted so high wasted jeans are a nightmare. Mid-rise hit me at the waist. Love them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short torso here. Hate them. Mid rise is fine, looks like high rise on me. High rise goes up to the boobs

Meanwhile, I'm long-waisted and mid-rise jeans feel low-waisted on me. I'm also pretty straight up and down -- my waist-to-hip ratio is not dramatic. High waisted jeans stay put because the waist cuts in above my hips and sits at my narrowest point. Meanwhile mid-rise, and especially low rise, sit on my hip. So they tend to either cause muffin top (even though I'm slim) or slip down over the course of wearing them (meaning I'm hiking them up all the time), or they gape at the back.

I basically never found jeans that fit and stayed put until high rise became popular. Even the high rise jeans I bought 10 years ago (before they were as ubiquitous as they are now, and when "high" meant a 9-10 inch rise) just don't fit as well as the ones I buy now with an 11 inch (or higher) rise.

I guess this is just a good argument for the idea that bodies are different and we need clothes that accommodate the ways they are different. This is kind of a golden age for denim because there are a lot of different styles that are considered in fashion and you can just buy what suits you. I'd be sad if we returned to that era when almost all jeans were low rise or, at best, mid rise. It was just a really unflattering era for me.

[Anonymous]

Buy a bigger size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short torso here. Hate them. Mid rise is fine, looks like high rise on me. High rise goes up to the boobs

I'm athletic, with small hips, and this is how high waisted jeans fit me. I hate them!

No chance of showing a crack in low-waisted jeans, because they end at my actual waist.

I think that women with wide hips and a small waist look great in high waisted jeans, but I don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short torso here. Hate them. Mid rise is fine, looks like high rise on me. High rise goes up to the boobs

THIS. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them.

Also, they give everyone a fupa and make your ass look huge. Even if they dont come up to your bra line, they’re unflattering.

[Anonymous]

Was just reading one of tim gun's books, he said surprisingly that he liked low rise on women who were more apple shaped or had midlife spread from menopause. It makes sense...fit the jeans to the hip, wear a shirt that covers the top and/or for stomach coverage wear bike pants or a shaper underneath for a smooth line and to hold in the belly a bit. Believe me, I find this depressing to do but Charla Krupp said the same thing ....to get used to undergarments basically, taking care that they are not too tight. But including them as an option even under jeans if the occasion calls for it. It's hard to accept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:muffin tops are so unattractive.

They can be hidden a bit with shorts, a shaper or a looser top

[Anonymous]

I have a very long torso, so most high rise jeans don’t hit me in the right spot and I usually go with mid rise. I have one pair that I love, and a pair I thought I loved because they make my short legs look long and my butt somehow perky but they’re so horridly uncomfortable I can’t bear to sit wearing them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:muffin tops are so unattractive.

They can be hidden a bit with shorts, a shaper or a looser top

But why is that better than just wearing a higher rise pant that fits properly? Why would it be better to wear a shaper under a pair of lower rise jeans with a longer, looser top? I don't get it.

I hate hate hate the feeling of my jeans sliding down as I sit down or stretching out as I wear them throughout the day. I love pants that sit at my actual waist because they don't move around like this. I don't have to worry about what underwear I'm wearing with them or how long my shirt is because I never have to worry about them slipping or gaping.

I don't know, I was in my early 20s during the low rise jeans trend, and I will do almost anything to avoid that again. High rise jeans give me a little bit of a tummy but it's not really noticeable to anyone but me, and I'd take it anytime over muffin top, plumber's crack, having to wear a shaper or pair of shorts under my jeans, or having to think about how long my tops are so they don't show either skin or undergarments, or struggling to find shirts that stay tucked into my pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short torso here. Hate them. Mid rise is fine, looks like high rise on me. High rise goes up to the boobs

+1, short torso, big boobs, smaller hips and I hate em. Lower rises are finally coming back and I can't wait.