It seems impossible that anyone could want to bring low-rise jeans back.
Right? On that point, we thought we were safe. They require a bikini wax and low-coverage underwear; they feel like they’re perpetually on the brink of slipping off your butt. Sitting down in them, much like sitting down in a hoop skirt, requires a keen sense of spatial awareness and precise, practiced movements. They are designed to present the full, uninterrupted length of your abdomen for public scrutiny. Low-rise jeans were a terrible mistake, of course.
Anyway, as Vogue confirms, they’re back! Along with scarf tops, glittery butterfly clips, shrunken tees, Ed Hardy shirts, and so many other early-aughts trends that were, in our recollection, miserable to grow up under. Generations of adolescents have struggled to master the current fashions and put in a good showing with their peers, but were any other era’s so inherently daunting?
Neither of us missed Y2K fashion; it’s associated w…
