Is it wrong that I love this? I mean, it's obvious I would love anything Mary-Kate is wearing, but still... Bell bottoms! gah! I Love Bell Bottoms! I wore them with pride in Jr High. I had a pair of teal corduroy "Hang Ten" bells that had yellow feet stitched on the bum. I thought they were the coolest pants around and managed to wear them until the cord rubbed off to a patchy sea of green and holes. My friend, Carolyn, and I found two pairs of these cord bell bottoms in the bottom of a giant cardboard box at a garage sale. It was like winning the lottery.
Last fall I had a flash back to said pants and realized this is exactly what I needed. They must be high waisted (because that's my trick to looking put together - just tuck it! Tada! A Tee shirt and jeans doesn't look so homeless anymore!) I started wandering around stores in Calgary trying to find any of these high waisted, flared numbers. This was not an easy feat, in a world filled with skinnies, crops, paper bags, and straight legs. Sale girls scoffed at me, rolled there eyes saying, "No, we have none of those here". I began to long for the days of Stitches with the racks brimming with light washed Silver jeans. However, the real clincher is said jeans can't just be plain old denim, they must be butter soft, washed out, REAL vintage looking worn in numbers. They must be the colour of summer lakes with sun rays bouncing off the surface. They must be perfectly perfect. They must exist somewhere! THEY MUST! I'm sending out a call signal, an S.O.S for the perfect bell bottom.
7 for all Mankind has this option. I'm not sure if it's because the model has no shirt on - but these look cheesy. Not quite right. Dont worry folks, Im determined. I won't give up, they will be mine.
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