As rationalizations go, it's true I have to figure out how to put something on my back for the next 4-5 months and my experiences are all colored by pregnancy. The end.
Anyhow, today's revelation is the intersection between modern fashion in the form of low rise pants and maternity clothing. Sounds great, right? I mean your torso is expanding like an inflating balloon. You get two options, envelop that torso in something or deny it a role in how your clothing fits by riding below it, yes? Well, yes. And no. The jeans fit. But just now they give me an accute case of plumber butt.
Amusingly, a little research on my part reveals, they are in fact, meant to show underwear, albeit not as much as I feel like is about to happen. (No one needs to see my crack. I mean really.) Heard anything about the scandal in Abercrombie and Fitch preteen wear? Aparently, low rise pants and underwear are being sold together to all ages specifically to show off your thong and the thing of course that has all the parents tweaked is the idea that preteens should not be wearing thongs, or if they ARE wearing thongs (because dammit they're comfortable and being young shouldn't mean you HAVE to be uncomfortable) they certainly shouldn't be showing them off with risque messages printed on them.
So I've bought these things. And they are unobjectionable enough. The plumber butt phenomenon should retreat to fashionable limits in a few weeks when my balloon is a little bigger. Now to find the undies with risque messages. After all, I'm not 10 years old.
Posted by karen at June 7, 2002 12:00 AM