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I hated it when the low rise pants came in style. So many butt cracks..... I used to poke holes in my belts to get them tighter to avoid showing my own butt crack. When high rise came back in style I stocked the hell up. xD

i just realized that this is a rather small channel which is weird cause your videos are QUALITY and algorithm friendly

I hope this trend will be going through the next decade, they're very useful because they had deeper pockets and it slims your tummy giving you an hourglass shape. Also you don't have to pull up everytime you take a seat somewhere. Unlike lowrise jeans, ugh, tf.

From ages 12-23 I never wore anything other than skinny jeans (2006-2017). Just this year, I bought mom jeans for the first time. I have been BLESSED. They are worlds more comfy than any other jeans I’ve worn in my teenage/adult years. Thank the lord for whoever brought comfy jeans back into style. You are a saint.🙌🏻

I’m dreading the day when low-rise jeans make a come back.

Also they're comfy AF

My mom told me when she was a little girl, one day she was out riding her bicycle wearing "pedal pushers" and a neighbor lady waved her over. This neighbor basically said "Only very badly brought up girls wear that sort of thing, dear, and don't you think you'd better go right home and put on a nice dress like the good girls wear?" Mamma's reply was "But I am being good, my daddy told me to wear these so i don't ruin my dresses for school"

I'm so glad that "mom" jeans are in - they don't fall off your hips like low rise, but low rise is going to make a comeback eventually.

I thought they were called "mom" jeans because they were high-waisted and baggy enough in the front to contain saggy post-maternity abdominal skin.

The creators of Normcore didn't intend for that to be a "thing" at all. It was essentially a glorified art project done by a bunch of flatmates following them finding out about "trend forcasts," only everyone took it seriously and they ended up banking on it quite well. There is a fab video on vogue about it with Alexa Chung. www.vogue.co.uk/video/the-future-of-fashion-with-alexa-chung-series-2-episode-2

For millennials, I recognized the mom jeans resurgence came after the High Waisted Shorts/Daisy Dukes trends brought on by boho festival wear in the late 2000s-era/early 2010s. We were all looking at Goodwill and raiding our parent's closet for the perfect 80s/90s high-waist jeans to cut them shorter, but started realizing that once 90's grunge and normcore came back, we stopped cutting our jeans and wore them as is. Skinny jeans were passe and mom jeans were in.

For a second i thought it was zooey deschanel in the thumbnail!

I actually wear my mom's old Levi's 501s from the '90s and they're my favorite

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That snl skit is the whole reason I clicked this video 😭

Can’t wait for this channel to blow up!

Gah loved my dad’s bright high waisted jeans from the 90s so much they’re the reason why I feel pain from thinking about how impossible it was to buy trousers in the 2000s 😅

I appreciate the well written script of this video. Snaps to the writers👏🏽

Next, I’d love you to do the history of hoodies, that’s my favorite thing to wear at home for comfort.

NORMCORE LMAOOO I remember trying to dress that way

mid rise is my favorite because i am short waisted and the mid rise hits me at the waist. the high waisted pants hit me at the bra band

I actually look like my mom with these. I love it.

They're not mom jeans unless they do that gross baggy crotch "fupa" thing at the front 😣

Yet another reason I'm glad to be GenX: I just kept wearing 501 STF from the early 80s to the present. Still wear topsiders, too....

good video but there were some mistakes- id fact check a little more next time. excited to see what this channel comes up with soon!

Very interesting.

Where did you get that amazing striped top?!

I wanted a pair of Levi’s 501s, but the sizes in the UK only go up to a 32 waist for women and I’m usually a 36. So I got a pair of their mom jeans, they only cost £60 and I got them in a 32 waist and they fit like a dream. I was originally a convert to the skinny jean, and I still love my super high waisted skinny jeans but they usually aren’t made with the best quality of denim but I need the stretch for my hips. I’m wearing my mom jeans right now, and I think I’ve fallen in love. These jeans will last me so much longer than my other pairs ever will.

I’m rectangle in shape; basically, I don’t have a waist. Even before low rise jeans came out, I was wearing boy jeans to obtain the low rise look, and this was around the time when mom jeans became popular, and that was in the early 90’s... Now, high rise jeans are back in style, including mom jeans. I don’t necessarily like the look of mom jeans, but I look at myself today in high rise jeans and I guess I do not look half as bad as I thought I did back then when I wore them. At least I don’t have to worry about my butt crack showing with the high rise jeans 😜...

I hope low rise jeans never come back in fashion

i love themmmmm and i hate wearing pants

YES THE RAMONES!!

The problem with low-rise jeans is that in many ways they don't fit a lot of body types. Or at least it led to a lot of whale tails and muffin tops, which weren't flattering. Also, the crime was that a lot of them had tiny little pockets. I have a high waist, so that trend always looked horrible on me because they would always fall down. People should be dressing for their body type and not a trend. I like high-waisted because it's comfortable, has better pockets, and is more flattering on me.

Mom jeans are beautiful and so much more comfortable

I've been wearing topshop's mom jeans since 2013 and I don't want to wear anything else

Levi’s have always been a staple. No matter what size I may be I can get a pair that will fit.

Whale tail and muffin top are two different things.

I love mom jeans, they’re so comfy

Why did she look like a blonde Zooey Deschanel in the thumbnail tho?

Jeez, low-rise flares were HUGE in the eighties!

you look like a blonde zoey deschanel!!

can we get the story of false Eyelashes?

You look like a young Goldie Hawn.

What is the name of the blonde presenter/spokesperson/cutie pie in this video and several others?

James dean my hubbyyyy

I loved my Levi’s 501 buttonfly jeans *because* they weren’t mom jeans. My butt did look good in them. I wouldn’t have been caught dead in the kind of mom jeans my sister wore.

Rarely anything is don’t for practicality.

You look like zoey d in almost every thumb nail

Oh Gosh I accidentally tried on some mom jeans in Zara because I thought the blue black wash was beautiful and on the hanger, it looked like my high waist straight crop jeans (a little bit like a Wedgie Straight).... Terrible.. the baggy crotch thing...just terrible, I mourned that blue black wash that would never come into my wardrobe.

Well im 14 and i still wear them soooo They are not only for moms😝

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I dont call them mom jeans, I call them high waisted jeans.

You look like zooey Deschanel

Baby Boomers vs Millenials? Around 2:10? Doesn't she mean Gen Xers vs Millenials? Those of us who like high waisted peg leg jeans are Gen Xers. Baby Boomers were the people wearing the bell bottoms of the 60s and 70s. That's my only argument with the piece though. Good job otherwise. Like this kind of thing.

Barrack Obama wore mom jeans.

100th comment.

wow! i finally get it. so the millenials “irony” thing is “normcore.” or looking as boring and rehashed as possible isn’t due to a lack of creativity. it’s because it’s “frightening” to look normal! uhm...no not really it’s just...boring tasteless forgettable and totally unoriginal. ok, that explains a few things as to why i keep seeing such boring yawn worthy fashions on younger folks. i hope things get more interesting eventually.

You talk so fast I can scarcely keep up with you.

Nope Nope Nope, if those thing come back into style, I’ll stop wearing jeans. They add 20 pounds, especially if you wear a long top over them.

sorry its just people are complaining

High waisted jeans?

Wait, what? Mom jeans don’t make anyone’s but look good.

Obama also made mom jeans popular.

I don't like low rise jeans. That's just me.

Mom jeans are not flattering on anyone. Sorry not sorry.

Please stop the vocal fry...it simply cannot be good for your vocal chords....I like your videos but really...