Big Jeans Feelings

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

Virginia Sole-Smith

, 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.

UGH I HATE IT HERE

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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

• The Universal Standard Ponte Pant! (there are several)

• Corrine Fay tries the swim romper

• Katie Sturino does a jeans try-on round-up

• Jordache jeans ads from the 70s, 80s, and 90s

• Follow Virginia on Instagram, subscribe to Burnt Toast, and listen to the Burnt Toast Podcast

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For today’s discussion: What are your current BIG JEANS FEELINGS? What shoes are *you* wearing? If you’ve given jeans the middle finger, how does it feel?