Andi’s exciting life.

I’ve had it with you, denim. HAD IT! I’m so over buying jeans that fit great when I try them on and then completely change after wearing and/or washing them. I’m a 31-year-old mom. I don’t want low-rise jeans that enhance and accentuate muffin top. This already severely limits my choices. So, when I try on jeans that actually have a zipper longer than two inches that fit, I’m thrilled. But that is hardly the end of the story.

Try as I might to avoid it, I have to actually wash jeans after one or two dozen wears, and then what happens? Said pants shrink so that the rise and length are too short. Ann Taylor and Eddie Bauer, I’m talking to you here. At least that’s one problem. The other side of the coin is that, again, the pants fit great in the store and I’m happy, feeling stylish and great and comfortable. But with that comfort comes stretch, and with that stretch comes ill-fitting pants. Gap is the worst on this front. The pants stretch so badly that they are all of a sudden too big and falling down even though they fit perfectly when I bought them.

What now? Buy pants too big and long to compensate for shrinking or too small to plan for stretching? This seems like the ticket to even more poorly fitting clothes that I can’t wear. I was so fed up and desperate today that I wore this cross between sweats and yoga pants to playgroup today. Mind you, I was hosting at my own house, but still. I don’t usually wear drawstring pants in the company of anyone but my family. This is a slippery slope. I need denim help. I’m afraid to pay a lot for jeans, thinking my problem is that I’m just getting poor quality, and then waste even more money on pants that end up the wrong size. This is all the more reason to work harder on my dress and skirt aspirations. If only it weren’t 50 degrees here right now it would be a lot easier.