Ladies. Ladies. If you want to impress your man don't waste money on jeans or other clothing.

As Harrison Ford put it in his Six Days Seven Nights movie:

"If you want to turn a man on you show up."

Seriously though, if your man doesn't think that what you are is not a gift from heaven you are in trouble long term (he will get "new" down the road).

Bob, if there's one thing I've learned about women's fashions, it's that almost none of it is about what men (at least straight men) think.

In English, please?

Jeans = Wrangler. If you've ever ridden a horse, you will know why. If they don't fit right or aren't comfortable, wash & wear until they do/are. I don't understand what other data are required?

llater,

llamas

Um, we're not dressing for you, guys. Our men prefer us naked, but we can't run errands or go to work that way.

That being said...I think the current denim trends are really unflattering. Is a long, flat butt desireable now? It seems like we're revisiting the worst of the 90's.

Um, we're not dressing for you, guys.

Of course not. You're dressing for other women. The toughest crowd in the room.

If you get a couple of grunts out of a guy, and maybe a compliment or two on your outfit, you're doing good.

Maybe most women dress to make other women jealous, but I kind of doubt it. Especially when so many go out looking like slobs anyway.

At any rate, I'll wear anything on most days so long as it's practical and doesn't stand out (no shirts with writing or cartoons on them, no combining blue and green or other clashing colors, and no heels or anything else that's painful). When it comes to decorative clothing for special occasions, I'm fussy to the point where even Neiman Marcus usually can't please me anymore - but then, their clothes just haven't looked attractive or interesting from a distance for years; if you didn't know that they use expensive materials, you couldn't tell the difference between them and TJ Maxx. So, I do NOT enjoy clothes shopping for dresses, since it can take ages to find something I like. Yard sales are as good a place to shop as any other - and anyone can afford those clothes. My motto is: "Beware of anything that costs money; chances are it's a rip-off."

lenona, "My motto is: "Beware of anything that costs money; chances are it's a rip-off."'

Lord there have been times when I sure wished I had lived by these great words.

There are only three types of women who don't dress to impress men. They are in order from least to most, women who have no intention or interest in having sex, lesbians, and housewives who hate their husbands.

Why, thank you.

Now, what with Freecycle, Craigslist, etc., it's a lot easier to live that way.

One can swap, too. Miss Manners once suggested that single mothers exchange babysitting services so they don't have to pay for a sitter when they go on dates - otherwise, they probably couldn't afford to date regularly.

Lenona wrote:

So, I do NOT enjoy clothes shopping for dresses, since it can take ages to find something I like. Yard sales are as good a place to shop as any other - and anyone can afford those clothes.

I don't find much in the stores that I like either, except for staple basics.

What I do like is men's casual clothes with the cut and style of the early 1960s, and those are plentiful enough on eBay at (usually) reasonable prices. Sport coats of the same era are usually well-made too, but they're getting more expensive and harder to find.

Can't fathom anyone (woman or man) paying $290 for "reconstructed" high-water jeans.

ThredUp (gently used clothes seller online) is AMAZING for finding really expensive stuff for dirt cheap.

I have an Anthropologie habit, and I regularly find dresses (originally $150+) for less than $30 on that site.

I love and wear high-rise pants. My husband hates them (I think all guys do), but they make my legs look long and make me look like I actually have a waist. Plus, you can wear a crop-top with them and not look like Britney Spears circa 1999 with the belly-button on display. NOT a fan of the cropped leg on these particular pants, though, and the distressed look and pale wash would make me look sloppy. But I can see them being cute on some people.

"I love and wear high-rise pants. My husband hates them (I think all guys do), but they make my legs look long and make me look like I actually have a waist. "

I don't hate them, for the exact reasons you mention: they emphasize the legs and the waist, which are good things. IMO only women with really long legs can get away with wearing low-rise pants. At a place I used to work at, there was a young lady who was fond of wearing ultra-low-rise slacks and jeans. Besides being unprofessional (you could see her underwear and/or about half of her ass when she sat down), they made her legs look stumpy because she was short in the legs and tall in the torso. I didn't know her well enough to say something about it to her.

I have long-ass legs. And torso. Can't get on board with the high-water length. I was plagued from age 12-25 with never being able to find pants that were long enough on me. God blessed me with the internet and Old Navy for finally finding affordable long-length sizes. The idea of willfully putting on pants that hit my ankles or above is just wrong. So wrong.

Besides being unprofessional (you could see her underwear and/or about half of her ass when she sat down)

This. I've heard guys lament the death of low-rise jeans, and I'm like, "Uh YOU try wearing those things and sitting down in them."