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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m staring to equate “fashionable” with “delicacy”. Usually when food is described as a delicacy I don’t want to eat it, ever.  Fashionable seems to strike the same chord for me, people keep telling me how great it is but when it comes down to it, it’s just not for me.  The high water wide leg jeans with calf high booties is just plain ugly, makes no sense and unless you are 6 feet tall, rail thin and live in a city where your walk to work is a king to a fashion runway it ultimately looks ridiculous, really it does, I promise.  I admire the courage folks have to try it but for the majority of the population, it just doesn’t work. I’ll add it to an ever growing list of fashionable trends that we all knew were bad ideas at the start but many succumbed too in the name of being fashionable: cold shoulder split sleeve tops, hip hugger jeans, over the knee stiletto boots, crop tops…The list keeps going. Trust your guts people, no matter how many glossy pages and insta reels try to convince you otherwise no one really wants calf brain with a side of Rocky Mountain oysters for dinner.[/quote]

I’m 5’4” but very thin and straight up and down. I jumped on the straight and wide leg pant trends early because I prefer how they feel— I just never liked the feel of skinny jeans and was happy to start wearing something that wasn’t so snug. I also have always loved high waist anything because it helps define my waist (since I’m not super curvy, I love clothes that highlight my waist which is my one “curve”). Plus I like tucking things in, which you can’t do with low rise.

The flat and lug sole boots trend emerged right around the time I stopped wearing heels. I think a lot of people did during Covid. So even though I wasn’t sure how they would look, I was willing to give them a shot, and I found boots with a less prominent lug sole so they wouldn’t overpower my frame.

Turns out, this look is about as flattering on me as skinny jeans were, but a million times more comfortable and practical. Thus, I love it. I’m not a fashion victim, I’m seizing on current trends that work for me. See the difference? If nothing about this trend appeals to you, that’s fine— I don’t think poorly if someone wearing skinny jeans and tall boots or booties or whatever. If it flatters and is put together well, it doesn’t matter. Do what you want.

But this idea that because YOU aren’t interested in this trend, it’s ugly and stupid and anyone who wears it is falling prey to a pointless trend? That’s just sour grapes, friend. I know I look good.[/quote]

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