The Perfect Jean....

....... doesn't exist!

or at least that's my fear ...

Take the following into consideration -

color
wash

cut

style

length

embellishments

price

Broadly speaking - a combination of all the above would make most of the jeans you find in the market today - considering all the different colors and washes and styles you get - that is a LOT of combinations - so what should've been a shopper's delight (So many choices!) has become a shopper's nightmare (Too many choices!) . Of course not to mention all the different unique shapes that we women come in ...

So as I walked into the zillionth boutique in Soho (because I've already exhausted all the general brands) this Sat afternoon after months of looking for the jean which would give me the perfectly toned legs and the beautifully curvy butt and the washboard tummy (all of which I don't possess) - I found these great looking dark rinse wash - straight leg jeans - I tried them on and the fitting just did not seem right - the fork seemed too long - the shopping attendant tried to investigate the problem and came up with the finding that the fork was in fact too long and that this was a 'regular' rise jean - and what I needed was a 'low' rise jean.

Regular rise? The jeans were about 3 inches below my navel - so where exactly is the low rise supposed to start - I shudder to even think about it.

Haven't we gone overboard already with the concept of 'low-rise' - what with all the countless femmes dangerously treading on the border of '2 sizes too big for my height' AND 'I really should be on a water diet' sashaying on the streets with love handles peeping out from between their t-shirt and jeans that Goodyear could probably use to run cars on.

Sure - we've come a long way from the atrocious 80s - from those unflaterring faded jeans that started right below the b**b - and we've made a step in the right direction - but it might be time to stop - otherwise - I'm afraid we are heading into an era of 'plunging bumlines' ....