—read: a high-rise denim cut beloved by the mothers of millennials in the ‘80s and —happened to be one of the buzziest new silhouettes floating around the mid-2010s zeitgeist.
The term was actually so insider baseball at the time that the model looked at me in confusion and said, “I don’t know what that is, but maybe I should find out now that I’m a mom.”The irony is that, back then, the whole point of the design was that its connotations had totally flipped.
Rather than catering to those on the playground scene, it was a youthful, IYKYK choice for a downtown crowd that had tired of .
You’d be more likely to find it in a hole-in-the-wall thrift store than (where, now, a quick search currently yields seven full pages of results).
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