High Pockets

You know how at work you sometimes come up with immature nicknames for people you hate? Well, I can't take credit for this, but once upon a time, a fellow co-worker of mine (a manager, I might add) coined a nickname for an irritating fellow manager. The name was "High Pockets". Irritating manager liked to wear khakis (our office was business casual), which is fine, but he hiked them up so high that his boys had to be separated down the middle by the crotch seam of his pants, which just looked painful and ridiculous. (Plus, he drove me nuts, so snickering behind his back was theraputic.)

Now, at the time (about four or five years ago), super low rise boot cut jeans were hot and high waisted pants were something you would see while watching "Dazed and Confused".

But how times change! Have you seen all the celebs sporting high waisted jeans lately? Have you? From Jessica Simpson to Jennifer Lopez, high waisted jeans are the new skinny jeans. (I'll not be acknowledging high waisted skinny jeans, however - that's just a fashion travesty.)

In all honesty, I for one, am ok with the high waisted jeans trend for two reasons. Reason number one is that I don't need to have the vision of other people's ass cracks burned into my retinas. Like say, oh, I'm out casually shopping and suddenly a young lady in front of me bends over to tie her shoe while wearing low rise jeans and I try not to look down, but my eyes go to the trainwreck before me and I can't help but notice that there's enough clearance back there to toss in all the loose change in my coin purse.

And reason number two is that sometimes when a style comes in, you can adopt a variation on said style. Like instead of wearing skinny jeans, I bought two pairs of straight leg jeans (and, alright, I did buy some skinny jeans, too, as you know, but they looked like crap, so I stopped wearing them). So, with the high waisters, maybe I can get some jeans that won't go up to my armpits, but won't tempt people to play a game of quarters down my backside.