Pleated Shorts and the Women Who Love Them

This is the second time I've seen this particular episode of Oprah, and both times it pissed me off. Here's the thing: women wear those stupid high-waisted shorts for a particular reason that Oprah and those two British harpies would not be able to relate to because they haven't had children. Childbirth stretches out your waistline. High-waisted pleated shorts conceal whatever in the way of pouches, saddlebags, or what-have-you that's formed down there if you don't have the money or time for tummy tucks or Pilates. The low-waisted pants they were recommending (and that I did NOT see on the women they were feeling up in public before advising them)? Let the aforementioned saddlebags spill over the waistband. Then we have to have loose baggy shirts to camouflage the fat rolls hanging out down there. Is this really such a secret that no one on that show could figure it out?

And British chicks? Fuck off and stop making fun of those shorts. The same for the idiots who make fun of the mom jeans. If the fashion industry weren't run by people with no understanding of women's bodies, maybe we'd have other alternatives, but we don't.