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SJ's avatar
Dec 7Edited

2000 vs. 2025 Style = Same Look, Different Method

REALLY Low Rise Jeans + Regular size t-shirt = Y2K/2000s fashion

REGULAR Mid Rise Jeans + CROPPED Top = 2025 fashion

I survived the early iteration in the year 2000. The current trend is far more humane. 2000s Jeans were below your hipbone, had NO stretch, and required 1) Super tight fit to stay put, 2) A Thong 3) Ab Workouts 4) A belt (or so tight, that your stomach muscles could spasm)

Don’t get it confused. Just hack the system :D

Goose's avatar

Ha true - but this actually feels a lot closer to like 1998/99 than 2003-4 (the real high point of the lowrise) I think we're a little way away from it.

SJ's avatar

Gosh, I hope so! I really did get pelvic muscle spasms from 2002 "Extra-Extra-Extra Low Rise" Jeans from Express. I paid full price, and they stayed on only 2 hours. I couldn't stay upright. This Gen. has no idea how lucky they are to have Elastane ;)

Personally, I think the low-cut "hanging on your hips" baggy look makes the wearer seem much more cool and at ease when compared to the tight, bootleg cut of the Britney/Christina/Paris era (Which I believe is the one you are talking about, and I hope we never see).

Goose's avatar

Hopefully we never get back to the Kiera Knightley POTC premier lowrise. I don't think I can take those days again!

SJ's avatar
Dec 10Edited

Looking that up...Oh no.

I'm not doing it. Nope.

Honestly, it doesn't make her look good. She looks flat and muscled, yeah. But she's straight and long and it's really .... all there is.

Wow, I really fell for that then...

As a short torso with no waist, I really thought I was fat.

Goose's avatar

right? WHERE R THE AESTHETICS?

SJ's avatar

What do we mean when we use "Aesthetics", now?

I'm really "Iningo Montoya" confused.