Standing in front of the mirror, I just saw a middle-aged mum who looked like she was trying on her daughter’s clothes.
Calvin Klein’s raunchy jeans ads featuring Kate Moss and Mark Wahlberg proved sex could sell, and in the years that followed you couldn’t move for hot new denim brands.
Some of my mates even cut the waistband off their jeans, like Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey, and while I understood that was a cheap and easy fix, I was always about getting the “the cut” right.
Pulling on these H&M Low Waisted Flare jeans was like going back in a time machine and discovering you wouldn’t do it all over again — even if you paid me.
Back in the Nineties, as a wet-behind-the-ears fashion graduate ready to take the style world by storm, I lived in a pair of jeans that barely covered my bum crack.