Lynne McCrossan: giving you the skinny on mean jeans comments
It all started last week when Carol Vorderman dared to dress in denim – figure-hugging denim I have to add.
Scores of fashion Philistines got all antsy about someone of her vintage sporting skinny jeans. To make matters worse, she teamed them with a tight T-shirt.
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Hide AdLet’s put this into perspective, she wasn’t spotted spilling out of a car skantless. Nor was she having a “wardrobe malfunction’” like poor Janet Jackson.
Ms V was simply wearing some casual gear and going about her business like any lady on a down day.
But the fact she wasn’t wearing a pair of “Mom jeans”, so we could mock her, seems to have been her misfor-tune.
Skinny jeans are for young people, it was said. No, I say, skinny jeans are for skinny people. The clue is in their name.
This woman has a great figure, a shape women half her age would envy.
So it seems the age-related argument was just a decoy for something more sinister – good old fashioned jealously.