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Hello all,
I had another social article to post this week but I thought I would lay off the heavy stuff this go round. I want to hip all my curvy ladies to a brand of jeans that actually is made for us. I promise if you get a pair of these jeans you will never buy another pair of the "other" designer jeans, made for the "other" body type.:)
I think jeans are the article of clothing that initially made me start to dislike my body type which I have termed, "lil voluptuous". In my humble opinion, I was born with the wrong attributes coupled with the wrong height in my opinion. There are all types of clothes for voluptuous women. You know the voluptuous women I'm talking about are medium to tall women with a frame that allows for flowing curves and long legs. Then there are clothes for the itty bitty women, who have no curves but because they are so tiny they automatically get thrown into the cute category. Five feet two inches doesn't allow for a whole lot of curves, or rather it shouldn't....but that's what I am. T.I. says he's 5'9 with the heart of a 6'4 n*gga, well I am 5'2 with the curves of a 5'9 woman....not a good look. The perfect size ten is certainly not so perfect on a 5'3 frame and I won't even think about the times when my ten is a little too comfy with its older sibling size twelve. So I struggled early on learning how to dress my "lil voluptuous"size ten sometimes twelve frame. For years I stuffed my thick thighs and calves into knee boots only to be disappointed when I ended up looking like a leg amputee. I bought dresses with dramatic slits only to find out I looked like I was playing in my mother's clothes. (Yes my mother is not only beautiful but she happened to be 5'6, which in my eyes is a perfect height for a woman) But eventually I learned that shorter dresses elongated my legs, and there are certain knee boots I can wear with longer skirts that elongate my entire "lil voluptuous" body.
So I'll get back to the miracle jeans. I'm sure most of you can recount numerous experiences picking up a pair of jeans in the store in your size and then getting in the dressing room to find out that your body and the size you know you wear are no longer working together. It took me so long to find the type of clothes that were complimentary to my frame that I refuse to walk out of a store with another pair of jeans gaping at my waist, squeezing my thighs and flattening my behind...and I'm not even going to get into the low-rise craze...that produced jeans that only rose half-mast on a sistah's ample moon. It got to the point that I abhorred the whole jean experience and just quit buying them....But being the fashionista that I am I continued having daydreams about finding a pair that celebrated my lil' voluptuous frame perfectly and rocking them with a pair of funky stilletos. So for those of us working with a little extra junk in our trunks, or a pair of muscular thighs that just doesn't see eye to eye with the thin-legged jeans hanging in Macy's I encourage you to visit www.pzijeans.com. I'd come across a pair of the jeans a while back but couldn't find the contact information on the company. I recently found the website and went to it and was in heaven. Not only do the models actually look like me and you and you and you, but they are beautiful physically and tastefully dressed. PZI jeans has done a wonderful job of creating an image of a sophisticated and sexy curvaceous sistah and I applaud them for not taking the simple and more provocative way out and depicting curvy women as simply sex objects.
It's not often that I will get behind a product like this, but I appreciated their portrayal of beautiful African American women even more than I appreciated the fact that the crotches on their jeans don't hang down to my mid-thigh area (what's up with that anyway? Are their women walking around with long crotches?). The jeans are truly made for those of us with coca-cola bottle figures, no matter how much or how little coca-cola is in the bottle, if you know what I mean.
Okay ladies, check them out and let me know what you think. If you can't leave feedback on my blog, you can always e-mail me at clrdbtfly@yahoo.com. I would love to hear your own fashion comments and do's and don'ts.
Until next time
Smooches,
Christal
I had another social article to post this week but I thought I would lay off the heavy stuff this go round. I want to hip all my curvy ladies to a brand of jeans that actually is made for us. I promise if you get a pair of these jeans you will never buy another pair of the "other" designer jeans, made for the "other" body type.:)
I think jeans are the article of clothing that initially made me start to dislike my body type which I have termed, "lil voluptuous". In my humble opinion, I was born with the wrong attributes coupled with the wrong height in my opinion. There are all types of clothes for voluptuous women. You know the voluptuous women I'm talking about are medium to tall women with a frame that allows for flowing curves and long legs. Then there are clothes for the itty bitty women, who have no curves but because they are so tiny they automatically get thrown into the cute category. Five feet two inches doesn't allow for a whole lot of curves, or rather it shouldn't....but that's what I am. T.I. says he's 5'9 with the heart of a 6'4 n*gga, well I am 5'2 with the curves of a 5'9 woman....not a good look. The perfect size ten is certainly not so perfect on a 5'3 frame and I won't even think about the times when my ten is a little too comfy with its older sibling size twelve. So I struggled early on learning how to dress my "lil voluptuous"size ten sometimes twelve frame. For years I stuffed my thick thighs and calves into knee boots only to be disappointed when I ended up looking like a leg amputee. I bought dresses with dramatic slits only to find out I looked like I was playing in my mother's clothes. (Yes my mother is not only beautiful but she happened to be 5'6, which in my eyes is a perfect height for a woman) But eventually I learned that shorter dresses elongated my legs, and there are certain knee boots I can wear with longer skirts that elongate my entire "lil voluptuous" body.
So I'll get back to the miracle jeans. I'm sure most of you can recount numerous experiences picking up a pair of jeans in the store in your size and then getting in the dressing room to find out that your body and the size you know you wear are no longer working together. It took me so long to find the type of clothes that were complimentary to my frame that I refuse to walk out of a store with another pair of jeans gaping at my waist, squeezing my thighs and flattening my behind...and I'm not even going to get into the low-rise craze...that produced jeans that only rose half-mast on a sistah's ample moon. It got to the point that I abhorred the whole jean experience and just quit buying them....But being the fashionista that I am I continued having daydreams about finding a pair that celebrated my lil' voluptuous frame perfectly and rocking them with a pair of funky stilletos. So for those of us working with a little extra junk in our trunks, or a pair of muscular thighs that just doesn't see eye to eye with the thin-legged jeans hanging in Macy's I encourage you to visit www.pzijeans.com. I'd come across a pair of the jeans a while back but couldn't find the contact information on the company. I recently found the website and went to it and was in heaven. Not only do the models actually look like me and you and you and you, but they are beautiful physically and tastefully dressed. PZI jeans has done a wonderful job of creating an image of a sophisticated and sexy curvaceous sistah and I applaud them for not taking the simple and more provocative way out and depicting curvy women as simply sex objects.
It's not often that I will get behind a product like this, but I appreciated their portrayal of beautiful African American women even more than I appreciated the fact that the crotches on their jeans don't hang down to my mid-thigh area (what's up with that anyway? Are their women walking around with long crotches?). The jeans are truly made for those of us with coca-cola bottle figures, no matter how much or how little coca-cola is in the bottle, if you know what I mean.
Okay ladies, check them out and let me know what you think. If you can't leave feedback on my blog, you can always e-mail me at clrdbtfly@yahoo.com. I would love to hear your own fashion comments and do's and don'ts.
Until next time
Smooches,
Christal
posted by Christal Jordan-Mims | 7:20 AM
2 Comments:
This company is awesome. Thanks for the link...Curvy white women need room to breathe and look good in jeans too! **lol** I call my body the "Goddess Bod".
I have been reading your blog and I look forward to your book. Way to go!
Thanks again...Clance'
Nice blog, interesting book. I was talking about that very subject with a friend last night.
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