Muffin top! It’s a silly name and we’re hearing it more and more-mainly because of those low-rise jeans. Silly people, wearing ill-fitting jeans deserve a silly name to describe the silly look they’re trying to achieve. If you’ve ever sat on a subway or a bus and have come eye-to-eye with an over-extended muffin top, or someone’s butt (let’s say derriere), facing you, you begin to understand how ridiculous it all is. I think the designers are having a field day with this look, They have one over on the public because they’ve created this silly look and people are falling for it, not realizing that there are very few (size 0-2) people who can pull it off. I think that designers don’t have our interest at heart with this one. I could be wrong, but in looking around….
Twenty years from now those who are not a size 0-2 are going to look at photos of themselves wearing those undersized low-rise jeans and possibly say, “What was I thinking!”
This past month in NH I had a chance to look at some very old photos of my parents, our relatives, and their friends. I hadn’t seen those particular photos. They were in a box more or less forgotten in a basement until someone suggested having a photo party, and the box was brought upstairs. All I have to say is that things have changed. No need for anyone in those photos to say, “What was I thinking!” This is not to say that in today’s world some people don’t dress beautifully. It is to say though that as a whole it sometimes looks as if we’ve become rather lazy. Or should we say that we’ve become sloppy?