(Gap and Old Navy, I'm looking at you!)
The low rise trend was over in 2002, according to Vogue. Would you please stock your stores with pants that do not show my underwear when I sit down? I'm not asking for mom jeans. I'm just asking for pants that do not gape open at the back when I bend at my waist. I wear your size 2 and have a normally shaped body with a waist and everything.
I kinda bend at my waist pretty regularly. If I wanted to show my underwear, I would wear no pants at all, thank you very much.
Low rise pants are really inappropriate for my pre-teen girls. You perverted designers. A bunch of pedophiles.
Here's an article from Slate Magazine in 2003. 2003!!! This has been going on too long.
"Yet the real problem with extremely low-riding pants is that they're impractical. Sitting is difficult: If you can't find a chair with a closed back, you have to tie a shirt around your waist—always highly attractive—or risk scandalizing the room. If you drop something, or need to tie your shoe, abandon all hope; bending over with dignity is next to impossible. You must perfect the art of squatting, back straight, head up, as though preparing to curtsy. Low-riders also tend to slide down, requiring the wearer to hitch them up repeatedly. In their way, low-rider jeans bear a creepy similarity to Chinese foot-binding—they constrict a woman's action, rendering her ornamental. And like foot-binding, the jeans can have deleterious medical consequences. In 2001, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a doctor's report stating that low-rise jeans can cause a condition called meralgia paresthetica, characterized by numbness or tingling in the thighs, by pinching a nerve located at the hip. Left untreated, the numbness can become permanent. Forget the question of style: This is a human rights issue."
And don't get me started on the accompanying muffin top phenomenon that results from this stupid trend.
Thank you for your consideration,
Frustrated and Angry Mom
