Just cause it’s “in” don’t make it right.

Ithink they are awfu. The high rise jean is just for the runway like art something to look at awnd admire. Real women who have curves cannot where these jeans without looking a little to round. I dont see these jeans as an ordinary thing that women on the street should wear, they are more of an inspiration to want to look better.

P.s. Hats off to Sarlett, though!

I say HELL!  Jeans that are too high waisted are NOT flattering, and this is coming from a full figured gal!  Even Scarlet looks less good in those, I know fashion trends like to go extreme opposite of the last (low rise butt crack jeans form last season) but neither is good!  I’ll wear my good fitting classic pair of jeans thank you.

Why can’t we have a “middle-of-the-road” waist? Too high OR too low are un-flattering on anyone without a wasp-like middle. My vote is to bring back good ‘ole Levi Red Tabs!

I think Scarlett looks fabulous in those jeans.  She looks like a real woman instead of a stick figure.  I have a pair of high-waisted jeans (not as high as those pictured, but fairly high) and I swear I lose 10 pounds when they go on.

I am a guy who likes high rise jeans. To me, they accentuate a woman’s curves a lot better than the lower rise jeans. Two things I don’t like about low rise jeans are: the thong view in the rear when a woman bends over and I see more than I need too. Does anyone agree that subtlty and what you can’t see is VERY sexy? Another thing I don’t like (actually two more similar things)about low rise jeans is the belly view. Either we have a bulging “roll” hanging out the front (in the case of larger bellied women) or, we have two protruding hipbones (in skinnier women) that, to me, ruin the body lines. Look at Scarlett in the photo above…. she looks smooth and curvy. To my mind that is how a woman should look. I side with my male friend above. Jean style peaked in the 80’s. Guess jeans of that period made woman of all shapes and sizes look as good as they possibly could. High waists with high pockets equal a “high looking butt” which is very much better than the look of low rise jeans with pockets that sit almost at thigh level. The pockets should sit high on the curves of a womans posterior. When they are low, they give the illusion of a lower bum and I am quite certain no woman likes that thought. Very few women look good in low rise jeans but high rise jeans help control the belly and accentuate the positive… p.s. high waisted jeans also make the legs look longer which is also a big plus….!

I think high waists are a trend definetly, but whether they catch on is another thing entirely.
The fashion elite can do random wardrobe overhauls to get with the HW, bolero jacket cinch waist blouses, victorian tops with neck detailing & so on & toss it when low waist puff top trousers or whatever trend hits comes in.
The Mass market will take awhile longer to catch on. But i love it, think it works, & am waiting for the day my visa is restored.

The main difference between the vain girls and my alter ego is just this: the former usually wear low waist jeans, my alter ego high waist ones.

what I don’t like is that it’s almost impossible to find jeans that AREN’T lowrise, and bootcut, and not to mention the painted on bleach stripes. It’s like everyone has to go along with every stupid denim trend because that’s all the stores will sell.

I think fashion style is largely a matter of the time in which a person developed to have a sense of or concern for fashion. Perhaps such a time would be between a person’s early teens to their early to mid-20s. Making exception for those people who have extreme, perhaps excessive, concern for and interest in fashion trends, I think it is to be expected that the average person’s fashion sense is likely to become settled into a comfortable pattern (perhaps even stagnant), no matter what the fashion trends dictate, no matter how much fashion trends change.
  I am a forty-something male who currently wears pretty much the same style of clothing since the mid-1980s. I don’t care what the trends are. For example, current casual, and even formal, male fashions strongly encourage the “untucked shirt” or “tailless shirt” meant to hang freely. That’s fine, but I will always wear my shirts tucked in because that’s what I’m used to. It could get to be very impractical, as well as very expensive, to change one’s fashion style every time the trends dictate that one should do so.
  I have a female friend who is my age to whom I frequently give clothes, including jeans/pants, as gifts, and sometimes we shop together. I have usually been successful in pleasing her with my choices, as what I found attractive on a woman coincided well with her fashion tastes. But I’ve largely stopped buying jeans for her because the high-waisted, narrow-legged, slim-fitting styles of the 1980s and early 1990s which accentuated her curvaceous figure like a glove simply no longer exist; the baggier and/or low-slung hip-hop styles of the late 1990s took over. She doesn’t like the mid- or low-rise styles of jeans, and neither do I on a woman. Fashion police badgering or deprivation of older clothing styles will not necessarily change people’s sense of style or what they find suitable for themselves or attractive on others. We are both aware that 80s style currently gets a bad rap, and we don’t care. Why should it be next to impossible to buy clothes that suit one’s own older fashion sense as new trends arise? Why doesn’t the choice of modern to retro-style increase instead of decrease?

  To adress the question directly, I give enthusiastic endorsement to women of any age wearing their bottom garments (jeans, pants, shorts, skirts, etc.) to fit up their natural waist, meaning that the beltline will be very close to or even slightly above the navel. I grew up during a time when this was standard style for a woman, and I became used to it. Also, shirts and blouses were usually tucked into the beltline of the bottom garment. I feel this syle makes the most of a woman’s bottom half by enhancing the wasp-waisted, hourglass shape of a woman’s body, especially if the garment is close-fitting. I don’t find the lower beltline attractive on women, and I find the extremely low-waisted styles downright ugly, unflattering, and vulgar (for obvious reasons). Actually, I find low-waisted pants/jeans on a woman to be rather unfeminine, almost masculinizing.
  Am I a fashion-anachronist? I probably am. Will my tastes change with the fashion trends? Well, they haven’t so far, and I don’t anticipate that they ever will.

ive been wearing lo rise jeans and i for one am sick of them…. i love hi rise, but they are so hard to find because everyone is still in that whole low rise state….but i honestly think they are so cool, and more classy

LOVE LOVE LOVE it! its so stylish, so new, so fabulous! Is about time for a change. Im guessing low rise hipsters are out?

Hello.

Okay, heres the deal.

High-waisted Trouser are sexy!!!

High-waisted Jeans/Denim are not sexy!!

I’m a guy and i’m kind of sad that high is coming in at this time, i was hoping it would come in later at the decade ending like 08 but it came in earlier than expected (even tho i should have known since empire waist/belted waist was in)

But anyway I’m a guy and now places are putting low-rise jeans out for men. This High-Waisted look is going to be a trend, b/c there are sooooooooooooooo many girls and guys who are in love with wearing their pants/jeans low.

But me now speaking as a fashionista, I think it’s hot on trousers and pants with a big belt. But on jeans it looks to tacky and not moving fashion-forward, it’s just going back in time with jeans for some reason with high-rise denim.

But at school, I wore suspenders and slim-fitting trouser with chuck taylors and it was Hot. So many people complimented me b/c they all said it was different from my skinny really really low jeans.

I agree with Fashion4ward- mostly. I LOVE LOVE LOVE high waisted trousers and also dresses and skirts and just about anything belted at the natural waist. It is feminine. Sexy while remaining ladylike. Everything that lowslung, crack pants are not. I love a high waisted jean, but I agree with Fashion4ward in that a trouser cut is infinitely more flattering than something like the pant Scarlett is wearing above.

Also, I think skinny jeans look totally ridiculous. Not cigaertte pants- skinny jeans. It’s like the high waist trouser cut vs. the jean pictured. Denim is not appropriate for just any silhouette.

ive been wearing hipsters for soo long and i jst want to wear high waiste pants but am afraid of what people still following the crowd will think!

High-waisted jeans and pants are always flattering. They’re classic. Think about Audrey Hepburn and Kate Hepburn. Think about Jackie Kennedy. Sure, many people will say that that was then, and this is now, but they are all undeniably fashion icons. Designers still draw inspiration from them. Unfortunately, recent years have shown that women are no longer able to age gracefully because they want to hold on to youth, so middle-aged women have been dressing as if they are going out to a club and they are 18 years old. It’s ridiculous! Showing a lot of skin isn’t sexy- it’s skanky. But showing a lot of curves in the right places is classic and always attractive. High-waisted pants are the perfect solution.

I have been unable to purchase trousers since 1997!  after that it was all that low hip stuff for denims or that big broad band instead of a proper waist band, and this band sitting just below the waist. this did not flatter my shape at all. I am a very slim 53 year old with a good basic shape, but the low rise trousers could do nothing for me. the low jeans look good on girls under 30, but even then, it hides the female shape and accentuates the stomach and the hips, and unless the tummy is concave and the hips slim and jutting, the looks is not flattering at all.

I notice girls who like the 1940’s thing like Scarlett and Gwen Stefani will wear high rise (sometimes).  I think it looks good and should come back for a few years.

I LOVE this style! I purchased 2 pairs of high waisted shorts (one black satin and another brown with pinstripes) paired with a lace button up top tucked in and sexy stilettos and the compliments were endless….this was back in September. My question is, where can I find high waisted jeans?? Urban Outfitters has a pair but I prefer button ups vs a long zipper….Help Please and thanks!

High waist jeans do not belt *at* the natural waist.  They belt well *above* it.  *That* is why they are wrong, wrong, wrong!

High waisted jeans don’t look as bad when they’re worn in a fashionable manner like the model above.
But too many American older women wear high waisted jeans in an UN-fashionable manner, and they’re always those ugly light colored acid wash style, with big sweatshirts and such, which is ridiculous.

My choice would be somewhat of a happy middle.
I like my waists on jeans to be not bum-crack showing, but not that high.
A few centimeters below my belly button (but not too low to show my butt) is just right for me.

This is coming from a 19 year old who wears a size 00 or 0.

I’m not anorexic, I’m just naturally thin.
It’s nice that the size acceptance movement is in the US, but I find it ironic that only thin women get criticised in the US these days.
If a person is thin without eating disorders or excessive dieting, then more power to them!
If a plus-sized person is healthy and such, then more power to them!
America needs to learn to accept that thin is good, average size is good, and plus-size is good as long as you are healthy (ie, not have extremely high blood pressure etc…) and don’t achieve your body type by eating disorders and whatnot.
As for jeans, older women in America need to get rid of those mom-jeans with high waists, acid wash colors, combined with old hag looking clothing.

More power to the low rise waist!
I HATE high waists, they remind me of old men who wear their troos up to their tits!
For me, waists cant be low enough. Yes! I do wear them myself! I find girls jeans fit me best. I detest the hip hop baggy tent look.

“ive been wearing hipsters for soo long and i jst want to wear high waiste pants but am afraid of what people still following the crowd will think!”

Don’t let yourself become victimized by fashion police brutality.

What I don’t understand is why clothing manufacturers can’t make plenty of low and high rise jeans, therefore more people will have more choices.

With fashion it always seems like this self-appointed elite vanguard is more than happy to tell us what looks good and what doesn’t (when in reality that is in the eye of the beholder).  And whatever that vanguard says, goes.  Plus, types of clothing frowned upon by the elite of the moment gets crowded out of clothing stores.

two things:

1.  The jeans that Scarlett Johanson is wearing are NOT high waisted.  They are natural waist.  Correct me if I am wrong, but your natural waist is the smallest part of your waist.  High waisted would be another couple inches above that.  Think Zoot Suit pants.

2.  High Waisted jeans are like the ones that Diesel and Miss Sixty are advertising, where they have sort of a corset effect past the natural waist line.

I for one am happy high waisted pants are coming into vogue.  I too hope there will be a happy middle,though, right at my natural waist line.

Girls and boys who are into vintage fashion, have been buying repro jeans and pants with a natural or high waist for years.  Maybe now well be able to buy them in department stores instead of specialty stores.