X: Tapered pants suck

Friday, December 07, 2007
Tapered pants suck!

Dammit. I have Genu Valgum and pes planus. I had gotten used to the flat feet, and the difficulty of finding shoes as my feet are also wide. The situation was better for a few years as shoes were wider and flat, ballet shoes, now it’s going back to narrow shoes. I’m going to have to stock up especially on the dress shoes. I had been having some knee and hip problems and blamed it all on the feet. When I started running, my knees hurt and I quit the jogging. I will have to get those pronated sneakers or whatever they are called but I’m lazy, so will go to yoga class instead.

Now it seems that’s not the whole story. I’m knock-kneed. If standing up, your knees touch and your ankles don’t, you are knock-kneed with an increased risk of knee arthritis. Oh, just great! At least it’s not so bad anymore, I was a bowlegged from the knees below when I was 8 or so, and still have scars on my ankles from where I used to walk with my ankles as close together as possible, then started walking pigeon toed to stop the ankles rubbing together. I fell down a lot as sometimes my ankles would crash together! And down I went to the glee and laughter of all. I remember the calls of Bowlegged which turned to Bolegged, then Bowleggi. I also remember being called Motorway (highway for the Yankees) due to the fact of my huge forehead so big you could drive cars on it. Ah, the joys of childhood.

Also another factor in why I find it difficult to find jeans. My legs never look straight unless there’s a slight taper starting from the knee fooling the observer into thinking my legs are straight. My thighs fall in, and my knees bow out. And the current fashion for tapered jeans, why oh why??? Fine, keep your tapered jeans but why make every single fucking jeans in the store tapered? And the tiny percentage that isn’t has massive flares which often don’t flare from the knee but somewhere around the shin so you have knock knees and stupid flared bottoms. And even if your legs are straight (lucky you), you are probably not stick skinny but have very natural mass (small, medium or large as your case may be, something) on your thighs, and the tapered jeans just accentuate them. Betcha you haven’t been looking as cute in jeans lately. I hate the fashion industry sometimes, and it seems they hate me back too. Say it loud and clear “Fuck Tapered Jeans!”

And the really high waist is trying to sneak back. Oh, lordy, lord.

http://static.flickr.com/92/238034306_fdaa45a0f3.jpg
And don't you think her legs would nicer and more streamlined in straight jeans? And she's a stick thin model! Imagine how these will look on you. Look deep down in your heart not in fashion.

Sheesh, I’m a walking disaster. Sometimes I have to wonder what's not wrong with me. At least I’m average height with an average sized head and average ears. And people say I have a nice butt.

And more high wasted jeans.
http://www.denimology.co.uk/2007/10/rh6.jpg

Eww just eww. Pretty Rihanna, ugly, stonewashed (shudder) black jeans. At least they are not tapered. I want to crawl to my special place and cry.
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