I am adapting; it is not easy. New jeans style from CJ Banks. Actually, I thought my jeans genes were just fine, but no, the designers had to do a little therapy. More Spandex.

First I thought they had just changed the cut – offerring four styles with MODERATELY CURVY on one end of the spectrum and CITY on the other. I didn’t look at the composition of the fabric –  I mean denim is denim. Well, no. My trusty almost entirely cotton jeans now are being produced with scads of spandex. I ordered a couple of new pair this week and when I looked at them I thought, “What is this?” But not that calmly.

I decided I needed to find a new manufacturer and looked on the Internet, only to find out that most of the plus size petites are now spandex-ized. Anyway, I put the new jeans on and they didn’t feel too bad. And people said they looked good on me. So, okay,  maybe I can adjust.

Only there’s this thing: the old jeans stretch and stay stretched. Open the waist button and they fall down. The new ones stretch out and stretch back in as you bend, but if you open the waist, they want to slowly retract to their packaged-size. It is an odd sensation.

I wonder if this is like women going from corsets to girdles . . . and to control top pantyhose. But now to denim spandex? Oh, I’m on the old lady end of the spectrum.