Why do jeans make us FEEL THINGS? I mean, I have a lot of feelings about the “going out top,” but at least I no longer have to deal with it. Jeans, they’re still here in my wardrobe, making me feel uncool. It’s the actual garment, sure, but it’s also a garment in constant fashion flux — and almost always designed to fit one sort of (thin) body. There’s no one better to talk about big jeans feelings than
, who’s written a four-part series on ‘jean science’ and the relationship between jeans production (and jeans ‘norms’) and anti-fatness. Whether you’re clinging to your comfort jeans or trying to figure out what shoes to wear with a barrel leg or banishing jeans from your closet, this episode is for you.
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Show Notes:
Virginia’s *FOUR-PART* JEAN SCIENCE SERIES!!!*
Our previous episode with Amanda Mull re: why clothes suck now
Follow anti-diet stylist Dacy Gillespie (mindfulcloset) on Instagram
Corrine Fay tries the swim romper
Katie Sturino does a jeans try-on round-up
Jordache jeans ads from the 70s, 80s, and 90s
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Sydney Sweeney (and Gen-Z Stardom)
Learning to craft / make things / hobby-around-the-house
Trad wives, featuring a co-host who used to be one
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Artificial Intelligence (we’re gonna see if we can figure out an actually interesting theme here, so send us your weirdest or most mind-boggling questions)
The economy, a.k.a. why is everything so damn expensive right now (my dream here is like an Odd Lots guest who doesn’t have private equity brain, please let us know if you have suggestions!)
Contemporary ideas of self-care
Buy Nothing groups and/or the current state of the secondhand market
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Big Jeans Feelings