Confessions of a baggy pant wearer.
Alternate title: Things your daughter didn’t think she’d be photographing today. Bless her.
Confession. I love harem pants. Slouch pants, low crotch (google at you own risk) pants, happy pants. Call them what you will, call me what you will, I love them.
My absolute favourite pair are over two years old now. They have a small hole in a side pocket, but I am prepared to obtain and use needle and thread to fix them. Such is my love for this cotton garment.
I read an interview with an up and coming Melbourne designer a few weekends ago, in which he spoke of his love for this baggy arsed attire. He argued he loved the gender neutrality of them. I could not agree more. (I have searched high and low for the interview and can not find it – nor remember his name, if anyone knows, I’d love to know.)
I know this makes me tragic, and I am aware I am all kinds of hammer time wrong. But I just don’t care. My love of these pants began in the late eighties. I was a teenager, I went to a uniform free school for years 11 and 12. It was all baggy pants and big hair. MC Hammer – he may have made them famous, but I wore them first.*
What clothing item are you overly attached to?
*This may or may not be an entirely accurate statement.
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I love them too. My husband does not (for him or me).
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Naomi Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
They are just so comfortable. I may be wearing them well into my dotage!
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I love skinny jeans. After having four children and spending the best part of a decade in drab maternity, the novelty of finally being able to wear them will never wear off.
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Naomi Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
I am a skinny jean convert. They are the only jeans I wear these days… when I am not in my hammer pants!
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Stop! Hammer time!
And you know me, nothing more comfy than baggy half down my arse cargo’s and a hoodie.
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Naomi Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Can’t touch this.
Well, what’s not to love about baggy arsed cargos and a hoodie?
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nappy bottom on me
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Naomi Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Poo catchers is what Hubby calls them!
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I’m in Sydney’s eastern beaches and harem pant have been quite the thing for the last couple of years. The yummy mummies look great in them but being a short arse I’m afraid they would make me look like unfilled doona cover. I’m committed to the kaftan this season.
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Naomi Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
I’m a short arse, and they do cut me of a little, but I am just too comfy to care!
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Great arse!
Those pants are a step too far!
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Naomi Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
I am happy in my poo catcher pants. Happy as. However, I may be getting to the bottom of the blogvember barrel. X
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The designer you’re thinking of is Christopher Arblaster. The interveiw was published in issue 50 of Frankie, but I’ve also seen it somewhere online…I can’t recall where. It did the rounds on twitter a while a go.
As for comfort clothes? Oversized flannette shirts. My sahm uniform for the days that I actually stay at home is flannies with black skinny jeans or leggings. No shoes.
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Naomi Reply:
November 21st, 2012 at 11:57 am
Ah! Thank you! I have that Frankie, can’t believe I forgot it was in there!
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http://samanthaprendergast.com/
Christopher Arblaster’s from Adelaide, and he’s not yet a designer. But this is the article anyway. I weirdly stumbled upon this by looking up “baggy pant”…. was not thinking of the drop-crotch.
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