MY PERFECT JEANS

October 23, 2008 by
Filed under: Mom Victories 

I’ve found them. It took a long, long time. But I’ve found them!

The perfect pair of jeans.

Last year I started back into my love/hate relationship with jeans. I go through phases when I don’t like jeans and don’t wear jeans. But last winter I decided that I really needed some good jeans, so I started looking.

I have never been a ‘big’ jeans gal, no pun intended, because I’m 5-feet-tall. So getting jeans involves hemming them,

and this involves really liking them enough to motivate myself to take them to my tailor and try them on,

get them fitted and then go pick them back up.

And jeans aren’t supposed to be like that. Jeans are All-American casual pants. Cowboys wear jeans. I’ve always longed for the day that I just slip on a pair of jeans in a store, they fit perfectly, and I wear them that day. I’ve dreamed of waking up in the morning, going to my closet, seeing pairs of jeans and just sliding them on. I’ve dreamed of jeans being so inconsequential, so normal to my wardrobe, that I don’t even think about having cool jeans anymore.

These are the dreams of a 5-foot-mom… I’m sure most of you are scratching your heads right now; well stop scratching and thank your lucky stars that you are in the middle of the bell curve! You’re normal size! Jeans fit you, you don’t know your tailor on a first-name basis, he doesn’t ask about your kids… be thankful:

YOU ARE NORMAL.

So last winter I began my quest for not a perfect pair of jeans, but some nice, durable pairs of jeans… simple right?

I went first to a mom’s party at a local jeans store/boutique down the street from my home. There were great jeans there, but none of them fit me well. And these jeans were all over $100 a pair.

$100 for a pair of jeans? I know that people spend that on jeans nowadays, but why? However, my visit to this boutique was good because it made me focus and realize what I really wanted:
a cool pair of jeans that fit me well and that I could (GASP) possibly wear off the rack.

I went to many stores and bought a couple of pairs of jeans… that I then got hemmed.

But I didn’t LOVE them.

So then I thought. And thought some more… Who makes jeans? Who started making jeans a long, long time ago…

Hmmm…

Levi’s !!

But where do you find Levi’s? I didn’t even know. I googled it…

Sears?

So I went to Sears. They had a lot of Levi’s. I found my size- cool! But then I saw a huge area devoted to petites- yey! I almost ran across the aisle, looking, looking, I found my size in a petite (meaning shorter). I started getting excited.

Then I saw the mother-load… the jackpot tag of jeans: petite AND short.

Are you kidding me?????!!!!!!!!! I didn’t even know they made petite AND short (even shorter than just petite). My heart was racing as I walked to the fitting rooms. I wanted to run, but that would have looked weird. I was so excited- the possibility of jeans that would fit me and wouldn’t need hemming… and I liked them!

I got to the fitting room and tried them on. I looked at myself in the mirror and they fit PERFECTLY! I just grinned at my reflection. I turned around, looked some more and just grinned, because I had reached the holy grail of jeans:

the jeans you just throw on and they fit.

Levi’s has me, they had me at ‘Hello’. Go back to basics and what do you find? You find what you want.

Now, I can even go online and buy my size and know that they will fit. This is jeans nirvana!

I’m wearing them right now :)

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5 Comments on MY PERFECT JEANS

  1. De in D.C. on Thu, 23rd Oct 2008 2:12 pm

    2. LOL, I can relate. I’m 5’4, which I thought was *normal* but all regular jeans are too long and most petites are just a smidge too short. So I buy too long jeans to wear with heels and too short jeans to wear with flats. None are perfect, but I guess they’re good enough.

    Glad you got your perfect pair!

  2. Robin on Thu, 23rd Oct 2008 5:05 pm

    3. Thank you soo much for this post. I, too, am 5 feet and HATE jean (or even pant shopping for that matter). I’ve had some luck with JC Penney’s petite dept. Will have to keep Sears in mind too!

    See you tomorrow night!

  3. JessicaAPISS on Sat, 25th Oct 2008 12:43 pm

    4. I might have been a little loopy and loco last night, but I remember our convo about how awesome Penney’s can be for basics and accessories. Now I will also have to also go see the softer side of Sear’s! I am pretty much over being a slave to J.Crew, Banana, etc. and want to balance out the funky finds with high quality low cost basics. Thanks for the tips, because you always look fab.

  4. FishyGirl on Tue, 28th Oct 2008 9:01 am

    5. Aren’t they great? I’ve been wearing levi’s for decades. NO ONE else makes jeans that fit someone so short (I’m shorter than you) except Land’s End will hem them to fit, so try them, too.

  5. Stacy on Tue, 28th Oct 2008 1:32 pm

    6. I’m a Levis girl too! I’m right in the middle of regular and petite. Short is often a fraction too short and medium length often requires stilleto-height-heels to not drag on the ground, but I often find a good pair of levis. I love 515s and more recently 529 seemed to work. Oh! And they now put like 2% of stretch material in them so you can buy a smaller size and they fit more snuggly without muffin topping you!
    Oh I adore you Levis!

    I get mine at Macy’s and Kohls. FYI.

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