Breaking News: Chicago Women Like Their Butts to Look Good
By Olivia Leigh in Miscellaneous on Oct 5, 2006 6:50PM
Back in the spring, before they had fully caught on, Chicagoist made the very ill-advised decision to buy a pair of skinny jeans. “Hey,” we said, “we don’t have huge hips, our legs are long, and we have cute ballet flats. This could work!”
After bringing them home, however, we realized what all sane women do when they see themselves in a pair of skinny pants: Our thighs had grown in circumference, we looked about five inches shorter, and we suddenly reminded ourselves vaguely our mother. Considering our mother still occasionally busts out the shoulder pads, that’s not a good thing. At all.
Chicago magazine style editor Stacy Wallace-Albert agrees, saying, “It’s just too hard for most people to wear. If you have any sort of a bottom whatsoever, you should not be wearing that super skinny jean.”
Since just about everyone we know does have a bit of a butt, we must say a big God bless you to Chicago women, as most of you hate skinny pants with a vengeance unseen in other parts of the country. According to an article in the Sun-Times, more Chicago women are nixing skinny pants in favor of our city’s trend of choice, casual dresses.
Chicagoist has always been quite the fan of the dress, as it is easy, comfortable, flattering and feminine. We’ve lately seen women in the city making them look positively fierce, mixing dresses with large belts, boots, tights and leggings for a fresh fall look.
With more and more dresses in Chicago boutiques throughout the city, we wonder why one would even dare to play with the fire that is the skinny pant. As several women in the article (and in the Chicagoist offices) commented, Audrey Hepburn is the only woman with some semblance of hips we know of who can make a straight, even tapered, leg look chic and flawless. As Miss Hepburn is sadly no longer with us, we only hope that the rest of the country might someday realize that this is one trend that should have stayed in the past, where it rightly belongs.
Image from AudreyHepburn.com