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"There has rarely been a fashion phrase so succinct and so visually evocative as &amp;quot;mom jeans&amp;quot;: Those two syllables can instantly conjure up images of light-wash, high-waist (and not in a good way), tapered-ankle dungarees that belong on someone cheering on her daughter&amp;#x27;s softball team...but it seems some moms take umbrage to the term. Susan Orlean writes on her blog for The New Yorker, &amp;quot;When did &amp;#x27;mom&amp;#x27; become a swear word? I guess the current definition of &amp;#x27;mom&amp;#x27; is someone who wears their jeans high enough to hide their tramp stamp; is attractive but genderless; is, in other words, nice, slightly frumpy, has old cookie batter dried in her badly-in-need-of-an-updated-haircut hair, exudes not one jot of danger or adventure or abandon although somewhere, under her really-should-give-it-to-Goodwill-it-is-so-old-and-unstylish flowered top, you can detect a whiff of a once-exciting woman. In other words, please kill me now. Why has that word come to be such a horror?&amp;quot; She confesses that the term for those pants--&amp;quot;buttoned over the slightly-out-of-shape belly, tasteful stitching, legs neither wide enough to be subversive nor tight enough to be sexy&amp;quot;--is in fact rather useful, but wishes they could be called just about anything else, including &amp;quot;I-have-a-child-jeans,&amp;quot; because the implied insult extends its reach to mothers everywhere. I tend to think that the phrase applies to a specific piece of fashion, not the woman who wears it--if you have four kids and you&amp;#x27;re rocking your J. Brand skinnies, they&amp;#x27;re not mom jeans, you&amp;#x27;re just a cool lady! Do you moms out there find &amp;quot;mom jeans&amp;quot; to be utterly apt and completely hilarious, or do you agree with Susan Orlean that it&amp;#x27;s kind of offensive to your role as a parent? Does your own mom wear &amp;quot;mom jeans&amp;quot;? Have you tried to pry her out of &amp;#x27;em? Discuss! PLUS... - Can you be a mommy and still be dressed to kill? - Kim Kardashian defends her mom jeans - Do you give your mom fashion advice? Romeo Beckham does! More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Want even more STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3});"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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