Sagerat Scribbles

• Mar. 16, 2006 - Urine Colored Denim

I detest shopping, and shopping for jeans has got to be my least favorite things to do. I don't wear pants myself, but my children do, and it can be a nightmare to find something decent.

Jeans for girls look like the girl was poured into them but she couldn't shove her fat in any farther so they just hang there at the hip. I'm always worried they will roll down while the girl is walking and leave her standing in her thong. That's what happens when I try to fool myself into thinking I can wear a pair of tights one size to small. I've noticed that plenty of girls wearing these pants are forever hiking them up.

Jeans for boys also appear to threaten to come off at any moment. I believe they are designed so that a boy can shoplift and there won't be any tell tale signs of contraband in his pants. I find it surprising that boys like to wear them. If for any reason they sh0uld need to run they won't be able to run very fast because their arms will be busy holding up their pants. I suppose this is why boys are now packing weapons, they can't run so they have to be able to defend themselves.

Hip huggers and cargo jeans are bad enough but coupled with the latest color style makes me want to cover my nose and head for clean air. Jeans are now colored blue, but worn nearly white in places, with a hue of yellow. For some reason this yellow tint triggers thoughts of a pair of jeans left sitting on a bedroom floor for a year and the cat peed on them, repeatedly.

I don't care if the pants fit perfectly and only cost $5.00 brand new, I'm not going to purchase cat pee pants. That leaves a very small selection of jeans to choose from. Wrangler jeans are the denim of choice in our house. They fit properly on everyone, and are a lovely shade of just plain blue.

Even if Wranger were to come out with a pair of jeans that had a yellow hue, I think I could over look that as a pair of jeans worn by someone who knows how to work with livestock. Pants that look like the cat peed on them only tell me that not only do you not know how to work, you can't even do laundry.

I just hope my thoughts on yellow tinted jeans gets around. You'll find people looking at their pants in a new light and holding them by thumb and fore finger to deposit in the incinerator. Spread the word! Help rid the world of urine colored denim!

• Mar. 16, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by CreativeHomeschooling

Oh my, I just saw a jean sight today. A young girl (guessing around 14) had her jeans so low that she was showing her bottom, like "plumbers bottom". I thought, "isn't this illegal bordering on indecent exposure?" I am sick of seeing young and older woman's fat rolls, back tatoos and gross looking body peircing, not to mention the falling down pants for guys. Why is this in style? I am soooo glad that wasn't the trend when I was young, how embarrassing.

Jennie von Eggers
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• Mar. 16, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by chickadee

did you know buying already ripped jeans are the big thing now? i should rip a bunch of my husband's old jeans. i could probably get a lot of money for them. now that you've told me about the cat pee trick i could do that too and increase the value!

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• Mar. 16, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by mamaduso

I hear you! My daughter has one pair of jeans. They have big holes in the knees so I guess by todays standards they are hip, in yadda, yadda. Well, this weekend they are getting replaced and these jeans will be made into various sorts of purses and such for their sewing projects. I love to recycle!

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• Mar. 17, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Leigh2

LOL...I have not even noticed the yellow-tinted jeans. I HAVE noticed the hip-huggers everywhere, and my daughter hates them and we can't find anything else anymore!! We have to search high and low for just regular jeans. It's sad...and quite taxing for a mom who hates to clothes shop for a teenager anyway. :o)

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• Mar. 17, 2006 - Had to comment this time!

Posted by Deeonly1

I had a hard time finding some for myself. I was in Old Navy and this lady was really having a hard time. We got to talking and complaining about the low pants. Both of us are too old and with too much excess baggage to really pull this off (even if we had the desire!). We started laughing and wondered if we (along with all of our 'likelike' friends) spread the word to buy the lowest cut we could find and belly baring shirts and wear them everywhere if they would finally pull them from the shelves. We laughed so hard that a lady came over from the management to ask if we found what we were looking for. I almost peed in my pants! (Now I know this might be in style too!) We laughed and cried even louder!

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• Mar. 18, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by mamaduso

So, Princess's jeans have holes in them nearly down to the toes. I can't stand them, so we went shopping today to look for a pair. Needless to say we didn't come home with a pair. Instead she found a nice pair of tan pants with pockets and the bottom pant legs roll up and button to make them into capris. It was the best we could do. Ugh! shopping with and for an 8yo is a chore.
Susan

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• Mar. 18, 2006 - it all makes sense now!

Posted by lonestaracademy

Thank you so much for explaining this. I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how they decided on a yellow tint. It must be the pee. THis is probably left over fabric in an old warehouse infested with stray cats that someone found. Naturally the fabric stunk so they washed it but alas the yellow stains wouldn't come out. Needless to say, the fabric was still used to cut cost and this is how the cat pee jeans came to be! Without your insight I would have never been able to put 2 and 2 together! Thanks for the laugh

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• Mar. 18, 2006 - I hate these jeans too!

Posted by Littlebitofeverythingmama

And you hit the nail on the head with the coloring!!! So true!! Thanks for the laugh!!

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