I don't understand why this has to be so hard.
Emma is 11. Granted, she's tall, and beginning to get hips and a butt, but she's still slender. She started wearing jeans in size 12 at the beginning of the school year, mostly for length, with that inner elastic waist cinched up good. On Monday this week I found her struggling to button some size 12 jeans after a shower. I swear, there was a 5 inch gap she needed to close, and that can't be comfortable, even if you manage to get the things buttoned. I found some size 14 jeans (Levi's with the adjustable inner waist band) in her closet that I'd bought during the summer (cheap, on eBay) and she put those on instead and they were fine. They're what is now called "pre-owned", but I still think of as "used", which means they'd been through someone else's wash multiple times and had shrunk a bit. Perfect.
However, a few days earlier I had just ordered her two new size 12 pairs of Levi's jeggings. When they arrived, I put them straight back into the mail as a return and ordered the same things in size 14. The first pair arrived yesterday, and I got it washed and ready for this morning. Oh. My. God. Watching her try to get this pair of pants on this morning reminded me of this post by Jen. Sausage casings indeed. She could hardly get the tight bottoms over her heels with my help, and she had to jump up and down to get the pants up near her waist. And then, when she crouched down, she had a nice plumber's butt showing.
These are size 14 on an 11 year old girl!! I'm seriously hoping that Levi's has simply mis-sized all these pants.
So I peeled them off of her and found a pair of Union Bay size 12 jeans that still fit just barely, but are becoming high-waters (is that term still used?) as all her pants do eventually. That too-short look is worse now that all the jeans (that aren't jeggings) are flared like we're living back in the 1970's. Flared and short has a rather unfortunate clownish effect. Luckily, Emma hasn't really noticed this yet.
OMG. Excuse my French, too. I completely and utterly sympathize. I have a terrible time finding the right clothes for my daughter. She hates jeans, so those are automatically out. Right away this puts her in the unfashionable crowd. She is still wearing elastic-waist legging sort of pants. But NOT jeggings - those require too much thinness.
ReplyDeleteI think I could right a whole post/tirade on this topic, but I haven't got the time right now. I'll just end by saying that jeggings are one of fashion's worst ideas, second after flared pants. Why do fashionistas subject the rest of us to such things?
You know, Emma didn't wouldn't wear jeans either, until this year really. She loved yoga pants and leggings because they were so much more comfortable. But now she even wears jeans on the weekends. Personally, I think we should both be somewhat thankful for having girls who are okay being so unfashionable :-)
ReplyDeleteYou might check your local thrift shops and the like for jeans. They're usually pretty cheap there.
ReplyDeleteWe went through this with my older girl and finally found that Old Navy usually has something that will fit her.
The younger girl refuses to wear jeans, so it hasn't been an issue with her. Instead, she's too tall for size 12, but 14 is absolutely enormous on her, so for now I'm letting her wear high waters.
Hey Cassi, I popped over from Green Girl, I enjoyed your comment there. I have a boy, who didn't wear jeans until junior high, but we found a style (carpenter cut) that looks good for his body build and if I get them in any brand will fit his waist right. I'm with Jen, I buy at the Goodwill often. Have a great week. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how tall she is, but we have done Charlotte Russe jeans around here once my daughter shot up from 5'3 to 5'10 virtually overnight. They come in short, average and long and they are often available as 2/$25.
ReplyDeleteShe could never wear Old Navy jeans, but for a couple of years Target worked.