Friday, March 4, 2016

Super Spring Writer Series: Guest Post by: Rosemond Perdue

     I've been crazy-busy lately, submitting posts to other websites and writing until the wee hours of the morning. I have a new post featured on Purple Clover this week---one I am particularly proud of that I know many of you will relate to. Please check out "If My Closet Could Talk. Also this week, I had a post featured on one of my favorite sites---the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop: Blind As A Rhino.   Last but not least, I had a post yesterday on another awesome site I love---Midlife Boulevard. Stop by and read my funny post about what you can expect when you hit midlife: http://midlifeboulevard.com/peek-at-50s-60s/

     And now, onto our special Super Spring guest writer.....I'm not sure how it's possible that I haven't been aware of today's author until just a few weeks ago. After receiving an email from her, I checked out her blog site and WOW! This lady is FUNNY! Please welcome Rosemund Perdue of Round And Round Rosie! I found so many hilarious posts on her midlife humor site, it was hard to choose just one to feature on my blog. Once you read her mom jeans post below, you'll want to visit Round And Round Rosie and subscribe to her site.

Please welcome Rosemund Perdue to Meno Mama's blog today with lots of comment love. Enjoy!



Mom Jeans Are Back, because obviously someone forgot how ugly these things were the first time around.


The 80's are back and I'm not happy. Just when I'd finally made peace with lowrise jeans (OK, so 20 years after they debuted but who's counting?) it seems that the fashion Gods have decided that Mom jeans are once again stylish.
Because I live in LA, Ground Zero for questionable fashion trends, I've gotten to see this latest fashion trend up close and personal. I've seen countless pretty young things rocking their ironic mom jeans. Waistbands up underneath their ribcages, acid washed, with pleats, and yes they look adorable. And fashionable. Hee hee. I get it. Jokes on us. These show offs with perfect long legged bodies are proving they are so hot they even look sexy in a pair of the unsexiest denim ever invented. For moms.
But lets get real.
When, like these LA model types, you are 100 pounds, you could wear a big green Hefty trashbag and look fabulous. So this isn't a good measure of what a trend will look like on mortals. Especially mortals like me who are now over 40.

Here's why you won't catch my butt in a pair of mom jeans.


Too much fabric.

My body could handle high waisted mom jeans 20 years ago when I wasn't a mom but my anatomy is no longer able to handle all that fabric. Around my middle. Mapping out every flaw. Here are two examples of boyfriend jeans or subtle flares that are way more flattering.

Where does your muffin top go?

With lowrise jeans you can let your muffin top flow over the top and hopefully hide that tire with a loose fitting top. But where does it go with a zipper a mile long. Do you try to stuff it down? Fluff it up? Do you let is overflow and pretend it's a peplum?

Tummy Tuck In?

What do you do in mom jeans? You have to tuck your tummy IN, so do you then have to go up 2 sizes to accommodate the belly, but now you can swim in the enormous legs. Plus what do you do with those side rolls that live where your waist used to be? Not to mention the continual butt wedgie these jeans produce.

Denim Thick Enough for Pioneers in Wagon Trains.

These were jeans made long before lycra and spandex, no stretch, no give and denim dense enough to last several generations. Do you remember the crotch burn we used to suffer from a day with that industrial grade denim scratching our lady parts? Burn, baby, burn.
There are probably piles of pristine mom jeans left over in landfills that never fully disintegrated. These tough jeans were meant for tough mom who did unglamorous jobs like burping, feeding and shopping at WalMart.
So who's the bastard who decided it was time to revisit high rise jeans? Must be a man who's definitely not a fan of moms.

What ugly trends are up next I wonder.

Is it time to break out my Keds and sweatshirt again too?
Side ponytails? Scrunchies? Bibs? Hillary Headbands?
Maybe for the youngsters it's an exciting new trend to try. No thank you. I remember 90210 and Friends from the first time around.
I had a modified "Rachel" hairdo. I've got picture somewhere to prove it.
In case you've forgotten mom jeans, here's Tina Fey's SNL skit on Mom Jeans and the women wearing them who've given up being sexy.
"I"m not a woman, I'm a Mom!"
Save us!
My worst fear is that fashion decides that all other denim style will be over and I'll be forced to zip my sausage torso into a pair of dowdy mom jeans with a mile long zipper.
Please fashion designers, leave me with a little dignity and some stretch fabric in my jeans. And please leave the over the waist denim trend for women who actually still have waists.




BIO:


When I’m not too busy embarrassing my teenager, I write about midlife,  parenting, and life in cute shoes. I’m a contributor to Huffington Post, Babble, and have been featured on She Knows, Divorced Moms, Scary Mommy and Blunt Moms. When I’m not writing, I enjoy lying in the fetal position and obsessing about my hair. 
 You can find me sharing wisdom, thoughts on life after 40, and the occasional rant at http://roundandroundrosie.com/


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12 comments:

  1. Noooooooo! I won't get back on that train! LOL!

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    1. Amen! The 90's are over so please let Mom Jeans go bye bye too!

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  2. Very funny! I'm not going back to my 80s jeans. I do wish I could find more "mid rise"... a bit of coverage but still breathable:)

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    1. And why was denim so hard and thick back then? No wonder I had a perpetual yeast infection, those suckers don't breathe!

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  3. Only white denim for me now, and is white denim really denim? And that awful shape of the leg of mom's jeans, makes me lick like my hips arebeing squeezed out of a toothpaste tube.

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  4. I'm way more coordinated than I ever thought. You've got me nodding my head, shaking my fist and laughing all at the same time.

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  5. Omg. Keds are so back!! I see them everywhere. The skater kids are wearing them now!!

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  6. Great humor. Any woman who can get into a pair of jeans has my appreciation.

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