A Skinny Situation!

No. Unfortunately I am not referring to my waistline, which despite my 2011 resolutions has not shed any inches... but that's probably because I have yet to set a foot on a treadmill or subject my tone-lacking abs to the riggers of the workout video someone promised to send me (along with the note, "Yea tone is good. You would benefit from just some cardio training. And abs. That would be nice for you.") Thanks.

But I digress. I'm referring to the fact that I've finally fallen victim to the never ending tides of fashion. Last week I reached yet another milestone in my life by purchasing my very own pair of skinny jeans to go with my very own pair of boots!

I've been resisting the skinny jeans trend since it started a few years ago. I've never quite gotten over those horrible high-waist, awkwardly tight, yet baggy jeans that we all wore in elementary school. As a middle-schooler I was beyond jazzed when super baggy jeans came into fashion. Since then I've graduated to the much tighter, yet flatteringly flared look of bootcut jeans. But, I found these awesome boots at Sears and I just had to buy them. It was only after I'd bought them, however, that I realized that most of my jeans wouldn't fit inside them... having less than little calfs (ie. large ones) and even small amounts of extra material stuffed inside a tube of leather makes for a very hard time zippering the back.

Fortunately, on my journey down the East coast, I passed the Woodbury Common Premium Outlets and my saving grace J. Crew. God I love that store. I loved those outlets too. Twenty-minutes later and I was the proud owner of a magnificent pair of "Matchstick" jeans in (drum-roll please) a 29 regular! For those of you who are not up on the European sizing, that's a 6! Exciting because I've been buying size 8 recently. Maybe I've been sleep treadmilling without realizing...

Anywho, I feel very grown-up in my skinny jeans and boots! I should have joined in this trend ages ago... and to think I resisted it so strongly.