Mom jeans

This article is about the garment. For the band, see Mom Jeans.

Then-Second Lady of the United States Tipper Gore (center) wears a pair of "mom jeans" at the Million Mom March protest

Mom jeans is an informal term for high-waisted women's jeans that were first fashionable in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the late 1990s and 2000s they were mainly worn by adult American women and considered "old" by younger women.[1][2] High rise, ankle length "mom jeans" have since become fashionable again in the 2010s and into the 2020s with younger women from tween and teen aged girls, on up through college aged women and beyond.

Many women wear their t-shirt, sweatshirt, sweater or other top tucked into the jeans with a belt to complete the look.

Once considered a pejorative term, mom jeans gained prominence from a May 2003 Saturday Night Live skit written by Tina Fey for a fake brand of jeans called Mom Jeans, which used the tagline: "For this Mother's Day, don't give Mom that bottle of perfume. Give her something that says, 'I'm not a woman anymore... I'm a mom.'"[3]

  1. ^ "mom jeans | Definition of mom jeans in English". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on September 29, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  2. ^ "mom jeans Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  3. ^ Hudson Neal, Jill (September 26, 2006), "Mom Jeans Flatter No Body", Washingtonpost.com, retrieved October 3, 2007