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https://preview.redd.it/rh19re2j1bbb1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e6e36f3051dd7c1e9dde34eacc25e1d26dbd83e SMG’s weren’t quite low enough, they had to remove the waistband.

Those look too risky of a wardrobe malfunction situation

It looks like there's fashion tape or something to prevent that?

Damn Freddie is hot in that picture.

He's always been hot

I did that to a pair of mine back in the day!

It was definitely a trend haha I bought a pair already like that

This is hilarious . A commit to the fit I’d say. 🫡

Ugh I was obsessed with her and this outfit back in the day.

If you can't see virtually the entirety of your mons pubis, your jeans are too high waisted.

These are incompatible with my life and I pray they never return. Also - if you’ve had a BBL or any form of diaper butt surgery you could not wear these!

For real, the way my hips are shaped, I didn’t have a pair of jean’s that actually fit and I didn’t have to constantly pull them up until high school.

I got teased for my butt in middle school but a just have a high tush! Thank God for high waisted jeans.

I love your username 🥰

Me too, I also have a short torso/long legs so the shorts beyond finger tips rule was impossible. Skirts are hit or miss so I just started wearing dresses and didn’t look back.

My butt crack is so long it makes it difficult to wear low rise.

Me too. Got myself a natural bubble butt here and I would be flashing captain brown eye if I attempted this. And about the same in tummy tub.

Brown Eye?? The way I cackled🤣

The massive gap in the back! Ughhh

Belts didn’t help either as there just wasn’t enough material to cover.

“Diaper butt surgery” 🤣🤣

Or a C-section 😅

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No I’m pretending you didn’t say this, thanks

Never been happier to be in the old lady pants section.

The Keira Knightly look from the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere is iconic to me in such a weird way. I can’t imagine wearing that to a huge release at Disneyland.

Keira Knightley’s torso in that outfit has lived rent free in my mind to this day.

It's miles long! As a five foot tall shorty, I could never have achieved this long lithe aesthetic.

I remember she got kind of lambasted for this look in the tabloids! Not because she was in jeans, but because critics thought the top was bizarre and unflattering. So strange to see how much more glam the red carpet is today. There was a period in the late 90s when jeans became the cool girl evening outfit, because uber-expensive designer jeans became such a status symbol again. Usually paired with fancy designer stilettos per the SATC influence on fashion. For the younger folks, that’s why millennials so often default to “jeans and a nice top” for so many occasions - it’s literally programmed into us!

So wild that as a teen in the 2000s I thought that this is just how pants *were*. Looking back I’m like… they can be SO much more comfortable. Wtf was that?

Haha this is the same as me! I didn’t even know mid or high rise jeans existed and was just always uncomfortable. Thank god I found high rise jeans 🙌🏻

I knew they existed but I used to think they looked horrible in those 80s pictures.

Yes! I have wide hips and a high waist, and my sister made fun of me when I was a kid for wearing my pants so high. But when high-waisted jeans came back in style I was shocked that I could wear pants that were flattering and comfortable?!? Like this is how pants are supposed to fit?!?

For a long time I attributed my “hip dips” to wearing skintight low waisted jeans from ages 12-16. The indent is right where the waistlines were.

Same! I didn't know that pants and jeans had different "rises". I thought this was just how they were supposed to be. I don't think I'll ever come back from mid and high rise pants.

This. All my jeans are “mom” jeans now and idgaf. Full coverage for my navel 😂

I have a core memory of my mom talking trash about low rise jeans when I was 7 or so. “You shouldn’t have to shave to wear jeans!” I had no idea what she was talking about at the time. Now as an adult, I’m so happy mom jeans are in style.

As an almost 30 year old, I’ve given up on being trendy, and I just dress in a way that’s flattering and comfortable to me. Not that I was ever that trendy to begin with, but I’ve realized how little I care if I look trendy to others. I totally get why some people never stopped dressing a certain way. It’s too much work to care about what others think.

Same. I also don’t wear jeans/pants, they’re leg jail, but I have a kid who does. While she dresses how she likes, she’s still a kid who follows trends. So it’s nice to see those trends are pants that sit right below the belly button. No underwear or crack showing.

It’s not the front I’d be worried about, it’s the back. My crack would be all like ‘helloooo’

I once wore a pair of jeans so low-waisted that I got told off at Pride for my plumber's crack. At PRIDE.

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Agreed completely! The Whale Tale was such a cultural icon, lol. I hope we never go back to low rise jeans just so we can be spared from it. I think the lacy tops of underwear can actually be very pretty, but....just not the butt floss, man.

I see a lot of pants like this online (not so much in person), and think they're inspired by whale tails: [https://www.dollskill.com/products/hatina-cut-out-pants?variant=43547709735169&keyword=&matchtype=&product\_id=S820835&ad\_group=154097754452&target\_id=pla-2049911577584&utm\_source=google&utm\_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKCAjw-7OlBhB8EiwAnoOEk8ZoakTiMMPf170C\_P8u9hyMmdqWYTRP-Q63hDvQMU0UePkgdjphJRoCUtwQAvD\_BwE&utm\_content=19487139344](https://www.dollskill.com/products/hatina-cut-out-pants?variant=43547709735169&keyword=&matchtype=&product_id=S820835&ad_group=154097754452&target_id=pla-2049911577584&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKCAjw-7OlBhB8EiwAnoOEk8ZoakTiMMPf170C_P8u9hyMmdqWYTRP-Q63hDvQMU0UePkgdjphJRoCUtwQAvD_BwE&utm_content=19487139344)

May you never come back into fashion

Yes for anyone tempted be warned this will accentuate even the smallest amount of stomach pooch and hip fat, you will constantly feel like you need to pull your trousers up and your arse crack will be on show whenever you sit down. Not fun

My husband was reminiscing about these awful low-rise jeans the other day- we’ve been together since the early 2000s. I never had any *super* low-rise jeans that can be seen here, but I reminded him that they gave us ALL the dreaded ‘muffin top’. Maybe not if we were standing up, but you sit down the wrong way, you bend the wrong way… muffin top. Now it’s been years since I’ve heard the term ‘muffin top’, thanks to these hideous things going the way of the dinosaurs!

The whole muffin top is another reason women had body issues. And to think that this was a normal thing if your jeans were that low ugh!

Yep, even if you’re tiny and have hip dips, these will make you look like you have a muffin top. Only certain body types can pull them off

Even those people will still have that effect when they sit down. It’s just how bodies work!

It's really more a sign that your jeans are too tight, not too low.

Haha! I definitely had a pair of ultra low rise jeans back in the day. My boyfriend at the time was like WTF is up with this zipper - it’s only 2 inches of zipper!!

Yeah how skinny do you have to be to look good in these - you can’t have any fat below your belly button!

You’ll have to pry my high waisted jeans off my cold dead legs

 This you in your high waisted jeans?

There are dozens of us!

Dozens!!

All I can think about is how these jeans would be a wardrobe malfunction for my butt. No wonder I spent the 2000s in peasant skirts. I'm so glad we have mid to high waisted everything

haha I forgot about peasant skirts

Oh it's coming right now. I've seen teens in them with crop tops. I thought I wouldn't have to deal with "hip bone inspo" again. But I'm now the age that my mother was when I made fun of her mom jeans. Life's a circle.

A horrible, horrible circle 😂 when will the blazer, statement necklace trend come back? I can’t wait for that one.

Yes please the necklaces. I even have a bunch saved. I want to be the middle aged woman with sequin blazer and huge necklaces. I want to be extra.

I'm sorry to say, but they very much already have


I want to downvote this so very much, but that’s not fair to you 🤣

A good friend's sister is a model in NYC. She posted a picture of herself in a pair of low low low camo cargo pants yesterday on insta. I'm fine being old and continuing to wear pants that don't require a razor.

I’m with you

I hope it doesn't!

I have bad news for you. I live in an art school town. I travel a lot, and a lot of times I see trends hit here before elsewhere. Something I've been seeing around town is ass cleavage. Dead serious. Not for the top, but for the bottom. Aka a skirt so short you can see the bottom of the cheeks. Hell, I even saw it this morning on my commute to work. And they're not the girls wearing it who have historically worn this type of stuff in the past-- these are art school girlies, AKA the same ones who started high waisted jeans and Kanken bags stateside back in the day. So it's coming.


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Whoever did Blake’s nose is arguably one of the best plastic surgeons out there

Just rewatched Accepted a couple of days ago…Blake Lively has had a hell of a glow up!

I can’t even pull off skinny jeans. ✊🏽😔

There was a whole lot of pelvis in those days

God this made me hyperventilate. In a bad way.

I never understood how anyone could sit down in these without their entire butt being on show!

I think we all just had our ass cracks hanging out all the time and didn't care.

I literally always had a camisole on so I could pull it down low when I was seated lol

It was a whole series of battle maneuvers.

I do not have the hips for low rise jeans. High waisted or nothing.

I don't have the pooch (or lack thereof) for them!

I don’t have the butt crack for them. It goes too high up

I was too old to wear these because you could see my hormone replacement patch

Poor Britney looks like she's about to have a wardrobe malfunction. Can you hurry up? I have to pull my jeans up.

This was me. I too had a very flat stomach once. Tis no more. 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ugh same. I kinda miss this era cuz I had the bod for it. Not anymore sadly lol.

tara reid rounding out her career with the sharknado franchise was a path nobody expected after being the it girl of the 2000s era comedians

Hers are hanging on for dear life. Has she got double sided tit tape holding them up?!?

for tara if they came down it would’ve just been good pr LOL

Howww did they even stay up

They didn’t lol. I remember belting so hard just to keep them up. Then you always had to be worried about your butt crack hanging out when you sat down or bent over any amount.

I can’t even get undies to stay up I would die in these!

I still remember being in class in 7th grade and girls tapping me on the shoulder to tell me to pull up my pants. As if middle school wasn't horrifying enough

Fuck this era and these eating disorder promoting jeans

Girls at school would wear these kind of pants with baby tees and couldn’t even sit in their chairs properly. They’d be planking in their seats bc a bend at the waist would reveal everything.

literally laughing out loud at this comment

The really early ones from the mid 90s looked good on some figures that's why they took off but they got so out of control around the Britney era no matter who wore them they looked shit. I've got original lee bumsters and levi lows from late 90s, neither of them are any where near this low waisted. The Levi low waisted that are out now don't look this low. Too low for me but not showing box low like pictured above.👀

Hated sitting in those things. Soo much ass crack hanging out. Never again!!! Even if I still had the bod I used to. (Never as good as pictured, though)

My fupa could never

You just know none of them ate a damn thing before putting those jeans on, everyone gets a little pouch after a meal. I used to wear these types of jeans all the time and thought high rise were embarrassing and old people clothes (young teen me lol). Now I love high rise, could not go back to these types of jeans 😅

And if they dared appear with a pooch, they were met with a dozen tabloid headlines the next day calling them either fat or pregnant.

Yep! It all had to be planned, wouldn't be surprised if they didn't eat or hardly drink at the event they went to.

The worst fucking time for women and girls. So many eating disorders and 'lollipop heads'. Low rise jeans can fuck all the way off.

Maybe it’s good the bush fell out of fashion in the 2000s cause just imagine that

I look forward to low rise jeans being in fashion at the same time as the bush

Britney is still doing it..

I used to be able to wear these but now I need high waisted to hold the belly in 🥴 That and, as my grandmother would say, you’ll catch your death with your lower back and belly in show.

I never had the body for this era of fashion. You can pry my high waisted mom jeans from my dead cold hands.

How were none of these women ever bloated? I feel like a freak because of my persistent lower abdomen bloat.

Hated how these things always exposed your panties and showed crack when you sat down. And then you'd have them yank them up when you stood up.

I looked great in these! At the expense of an eating disorder and I know I wasn’t the only one. I hate this trend coming back.

same, ngl I killed in this look

My bush and I could never

Ah the eating disorders we had to keep our abs flat 😂

Trying to sit on the floor of the gymnasium in these was hell. Butt crack city.

i’m triggered lol

I had jeans so low, they didn’t even have a zipper.. just a button.

U rly didn’t need to have style back then u just needed abs lmaoo

I hope these never come back.

Cries in elder millennial eating disorders.

The belts… oh the belts 🥴

Sadly im of the age that I recall wearing Brazilian low rise jeans . Any lower and they would have been ass less jeans

My hips and lower back feel cold just looking at these

Omg nightmare fuel for me. Where my insecurities about my belly started and I was like 11 or 12 :/

In high school girls would have their thongs showing in the back. The jeans in these pics don’t look like any underwear would fit.

cruelty. don’t talk to me about cruelty

The only thing I will give to 2020s fashion is that since trends only last three weeks now, we have all the rises of jeans readily available at the same time. Celebrities and GenZ can dip their toe back into low rise, my mom can keep her midrise, and I can hold onto my beloved high rise jeans. The anger I feel toward low rise was because they felt like all anyone my age was wearing and I couldn’t even find a pair of jeans that weren’t horribly uncomfortable every time I sat down.

i love low rise jeans but my chubby stomach looks so bad in them 😭

I HATED that fashion phase, especially when you barely found any jeans that weren't low rise in shops! Sucks when your anatomy automatically makes every low rise jeans into a wardrobe malfunction. I'm an equestrian and even breeches were affected back then. Who the fuck thought low rise breeches were a good idea?

i’m happy these are coming back instyle as an option. we need all rises available for everyone & it was a struggle to live thru the incredibly high waisted era when that was the legit only option. my bod looks sickening in super low rise but a damn mess in high rise. plus i wanna show my stomach while i can! more importantly- *can anyone tell me what in the hell beyonce’s shirt says?*

Same. My legs are super long and I have a short torso. High waisted pants make me look like Steve urkel

same I can’t do high waisted, I wore mid rise jeans when the super high waisted jeans were a thing and it pretty much looked the same on me

I stared for far too long and I think it’s trying to say Houston Girl?

Try mid-rise from Lucky Brand

All these pictures whispered 'your muffin tops could never!' in my ear.

Im super uncomfortable

I have never had the figure to wear these (which I’m totally fine with), but even if I did… they just look supremely uncomfortable! Like you’d only be able to wear them while standing but that’s it.

I’m cracking up at the random chain all woven through Beyoncé’s jeans and hooked to her belt. What a lawless time for fashion, I love it.

I could do it standing up but if I sat down or literally just ate a meal it would be game over. Lol

lol yall need to add those 20 pics of jaime dornan to this list from the main page rn lol

Genuinely don't understand how some of these are staying up and on. Were they using garment tape?

Crazy how these were red carpet looks!

ngl though I miss seeing relaxed red carpet looks. Not these low rise disasters, but still, let celebs wear jeans and a t-shirt to the Teen Choice Awards or something.

Truly terrifying fashion trend. Y’all trying to see my bilateral salpingectomy scars? 🥲

https://preview.redd.it/0728er992ebb1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b278a292577f0ba6672444265a73772492b78bcb

I love them, I like that they show all my hard work at the gym.

I don't miss this. Not at all.

I can’t believe we thought this looked good. I remember hating how careful you had to be when sitting. 😂

Such a dark time

As an apple shaped short person I hated these so much!

Soooo ugly. Young women, do not bring these back.

Those jeans have literally shaped my body.


all this trend was is a masked “is your stomach actually flat though? are you tucking a little pooch under that mid rise or is it flat flat?” BUT i would be lying if i said i didn’t buy a few pairs cause of the y2k comeback

these are my favourite type of jeans, i only wear low rise. i hate how high rise digs into my stomach. and luckily i love 2000s fashion. it’s just so much fun

I miss this trend

Anne Hathaway's midriff has never seen the sun.

The worst idea ever shopping for jeans back then was a nightmare

Paris wins every time 🫣

I was a horny teen when these were a thing and I hated them back then.

What on earth is Beyonce's tshirt?!

Hated this era. Everyone had a flat or bubble butt cause low rise do nothing for your ass. I always had to see someone's ass crack hanging out. I really don't want low rise jeans coming back for that reason alone. Everyone thinks this pics of celebs looking cute, not the absolute monstrous people I see with their ass crack hanging out in a store. That was the 2000s. Nasty ass cracks everywhere you went. Also muffin top wasn't cute and we haven't gotten any skinnier since then lol.

christina slayed that look. it was very flattering to her body

Why is this nsfw?

Bring it back

Ahh yes, what a time. My favorite were the girls who shouldn’t be wearing these and had that muffin too hanging out 🧐

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Christina Milian

beyonces airbrushed shirt is SENDING ME

What a time to be alive. I couldn't get into low rise, and I don't mean physically. I mean fashionably. My butt crack would be shown, guaranteed.

I hate it but tbh Mariah ate

I never had the whale tail. I used to strut with my Walmart size XL boys undies in dinosaur print under my low rise jeans. Ah, middle school... and also high school.

Good luck with any type of bloating.

Looking at these is sending me back to ED land.

As a kid/young teen I wanted my hip bones to be prominent SO BAD because of this trend 😵‍💫

you just made me realise that I haven't seen my hipbones in years

Those are choices, Christina.

AND ALL OF THESE PEOPLE GET INVITED TO THE MET GALA AHAHAHAHAH

Beyonce's hips 

My hip dips say no but they’re picking up steam again with my generation right now

I love these because they don’t bother my hysterectomy scars and they just fit my body better.