Skinny Pants

While Livingdeb is coming to grips with stylish, low-waisted pants (in which I bet she looked great, even if she felt conspicuously thighed, because a modestly low-waisted pair of pants with a bit of flare is just so much more flattering than the old style stuff we used to wear), today I finally wore a pair of skinny capri pants I bought at Our Favorite Store/The Other Talbots last summer. This morning, I had originally put on an old, comfortable pair of khakis, but they were such a fashion disaster (pleats, I tell you!) I could not really bear to wear them again. Ever. My capri pants are not quite as extreme as Audrey Hepburn's famous skinny pants, but they are rather skinny (and fortunately, have a good deal of stretch to them). I was a little uncertain about them, but a woman at work I hadn't seen in a while said to me in the hall, "Hey, you're looking skinny." I told her that this is an optical illusion of the pants and I now wish I had a pair in every color. I really had expected that only truly skinny girls could wear skinny pants, but I've changed my mind.

Too bad that it's easy to make big clown pants, but much more of a challenge to make side-zip, darted, flattering skinny pants. With my newfound mad sewing skillz (hah), I am eager to try slimming up my clown pants pattern. (For some reason, I find screwing around and floundering at the sewing machine less off-putting than following an actual damn pattern, even though it's more work and the results are surely not as good.)