Four Fun Things

I follow ChristinaSurdu on Instagram. She wears the pleated pants really well. She cuffs her pants and wears with heels. She’s so darn cute! Check out her feed and you may want to try this trend.

Ugh, please do not bring back pleated pants. I could MAYBE get on board with one pleat – more like a dart – if it helped tailor the look, but this trend should have died in the 80s, not lingered for the next 20 years.

A trend I really miss is bootcut jeans. Not a full flare, but just a nice full to the ground pair of jeans. The only way I’ve found them recently is Goodwill. Although, I remember back in HS when those were the ONLY trend out there and I really needed straight jeans for horseback riding. SIGH. Things are never as we want them.

I once had a job that required us to wear pleated pants. My boss, who despised them, called them “va-giant” pants because of the big poof they make around the crotch area when you sit.

Pants seem to be a recurring topic in the comments! At 40, I honestly have NO IDEA what pants I should wear. I would LOVE to see The Ultimate Pants and Jeans Guide here on CoJ, preferably with a bunch of readers with different body types share their favorite pants/fits/styles. Online shopping is meaningless to be as the models are always super young, super tall and super thin – so basically they can wear anything and both look and feel great and comfortable. I want to look great and feel comfortable, but I have no idea how. Pants and jeans posts wanted!!

Love the favorite things lists!
I often like classic Hollywood-type looks, and menswear influenced items if the fabric is good, and I set a high priority on being comfortable, so I am a yes on the pleated trousers. I don’t care if other women may think they make me look chubby or whatever (good lord, for all our talk of liberation and freedom there is still so much anxiety over this), what I wear and how I feel in my clothes and body is my own business. I like the pleats to lay flat, so I would probably size up and have them taken in at the waist.
Thanks for the comedy and book recs, I will check them out for sure. Right now I am reading Isabelle Allende’s A Long Petal of the Sea, and Barbara Taylor Brown’s An Altar in the World. Both are excellent.

I LOVE Nate and I LOVE potato rolls! I’m not so into the pleated khakis, but I do love the high waisted stuff!

Loved the balloon pants and love the khakis. As someone who is tall and carries their weight more in my legs/butt than tummy I’ve been a big fan of the high waisted relaxed leg styles. Every time I wear them my boyfriend will give me a knowing nod and say “big pants little shirt”.

CAN I JUST SAY… about pants. I LOVE the look of Levi’s Wedgie… and ordered them in my sixe 30/31. Just NO. I don’t know why they are recommended for curvy girls because I’m 42… athletic (crossfit, bike, hike) and I have hips and thighs and man these did NOT look good. I don’t think I’m ready for a pleated pant. If I was slim (skinny?) maybe but man oh man… these new stiles are not flattering on my body. *the search for flattering pants continues*

Could you “yes in wide leg”- lucky people please all share what kind of shoes you would choose? I have small feet, so wide pants easily hide my complete feet anyway. Or am I just doing it wrong?

Hi Jo!! Nate is THE BEST. We’ve been obsessed with him for awhile – his coffee with cream bit has me in tears every time I watch it! So much love to you guys & happy spring xoxo

Oh man. . . we did this in the 80s. If you have the body of a super model, go for it even though I still don’t think they’re anything to write home about.
But this look is definitely NOT for me.

Hi Joanna – Watch Nate’s “The Tennessee Kid” on Netflix next. Great one to watch after The Standups episode. He’s so funny!

Those pants were in style in the 80’s. Way too much fabric all around. And stiff fabric, to boot! As usual, they look good on trim, leggy women. ?

I got to work on a cruise ship as a dancer in the production shows. We traveled the world. Dream job. I also had to work in the library every week for four hours in pleated khakis exactly like this. I also had to wear white (non sneaker) closed toe dress shoes. WTAF? I would have never predicted its rise to fashion. Maybe pair with a polo for that cruise staff look.
P.S. Loved Nick’s stand up followed by Joe List, who was new to me. His YouTube stand up is a slow burn.

POTATO BUNS! I’m from Eastern PA so yes, yes, yes. When quarantine started and I had to suddenly feed my toddler every meal, every day, I went classic and got hotdogs and potato hot dog buns (his hot dog sliced safely). He loved the hot dogs but was not having the buns. And that’s when I tried scrambled eggs in a potato hot dog bun since we had no toast. Yum yum.

I vote no on the khakis! It was a maybe if they were white with a wide leg.

I’ve been obsessed with the Hiroko pants I got from https://aliyawanek.com though! I got them 3 or 4 sizes too big and am so in love with the structured drapiness.

Can’t wait to check out the special! Sound of Metal and White Tiger were my favorite things to watch this year but haven’t found something LOL funny since maybe finishing Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. 3 Idiots might be fun to watch with kids, though! It’s very slapstick-y.

Mmm potato buns also make me so happy. Love a good egg sandwich with chives or a nice beef patty seasoned with only pink salt and rainbow peppercorn.

so we (as a family) love john mulaney and brian regan as two super funny but also pretty clean comics that even our 10-year-old can watch and love. should we add nate bargatze to that list? ps breakfast: toast with honey. pps pants: what are those? i have forgotten.

Another good book, non-fiction: “Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown”, by Anne Glenconner, who was lady in waiting to Princess Margaret and an attendant at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. Equal parts upper-crust British culture and trashy tabloid gossip – highly recommended!

Those Mango pants look like the ones Clint Eastwood wore in that movie where he tells people to get off his lawn.