it's not a big stretch: elastic waist pants are the best
as I shape my wardrobe, I know I need more of these for fancy occasions
Recently I took a clothes inventory so I would have a better idea of what I have in my closet so I don’t panic every morning when trying to put together an outfit. Overall, this has worked out very well. It has me wearing dresses that had been in the back of my closet, sweaters that I hadn’t seen in months because I always pick the same ones and lingerie pieces that are, well, just cute. But there is one thing I notice more than anything…
I don’t have many elastic waist pants.
Not leggings and not sweatpants, although those are both really valuable wardrobe additions of course. I mean elastic waistband pants that you’re going to wear to the office, to date night, to dinner with strangers if that’s something you do. I’m talking fancy elastic waste band pants.
Do you have many elastic waist pants? I’m guessing not a whole lot because somehow there are just jeans and work trousers everywhere that button or fasten in non-elastic fashion. My very rudimentary research into this fashion development reveals that the elastic waistband for pants has yet to celebrate even its centenary so there must be some wiggle room in there for increased growth but I cannot tell you how much happier I am throughout a day when I am wearing elastic pants versus when I am wearing buttoned up pants, even when they are perfectly sized.
I don’t know exactly how it was that we got convinced elastic could not be fancy. I expect it was men. I expect further it was rich men. And, I further expect that it takes a lot of time to come back from this lengthy kind of fashion battle to make elastic pants count as dressy again. Elastic-waisted suits are our future. Elastic-waisted dress pants will be worn with velvet, lingerie bodysuits to make outfits. The future is bright, the belly is unencumbered.
I am now up to three pairs and all of them are from Red Sky. Post closet documenting, I now know where they all are. I am looking to buy less clothing this year unless it fits as a staple, must-wear, long-term item. I assure you, some of those will be elastic pants.