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A few days ago, I accompanied R to buy jeans. She badly needs a new pair and because of her body type or built, it must be high-waist. It took us two days to find high-waist jeans.

I never knew that the wearing of low-waist jeans is now happening on a grand scale until I got involved in that adventure to search for the elusive high-waist jeans. We went to and R tried the jeans at Giordano, Herbench, Bayo, F&H, Rustan’s, Penshoppe, Factory Outlet, Oxygen, Human, Lee, Wrangler, Jag (the new one endorsed JLo). They were all low-waist and R won't compromise or she would look terrible. Every time I asked the store staff for a pair of high-waist jeans, they mumbled something that sounded like a polite NO and looked at me like I came from a school run by nuns.

Giordano et al have low-waist jeans (those which show the belly button) and the rest are drop-waist (those which are just a hairline above the pubic area) - Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears come to mind. So literally, the standard has already been lowered.

Until then, I did not know that high-waist jeans are already marginalized and treated as ancient, belly buttons more ubiquitous, and more women involved in an 'eternal struggle' of pulling their low-waist pants and shirts together when they stand up.

Finally, one of the girls at Jag informed us that there are high-waist jeans sighted at the next level. Without wasting much time, up we went. And there, we saw the black high –waist jeans in all its gloriousness at 70% off. R tried and bought it immediately. Relaxed now, we passed by at Levi's and saw some jeans on sale, including a high-waist brown corduroy this time! R tried and bought it immediately. We also passed by at Guess and I asked if there's a high-waist around. They do, but it's somewhere there in the attic.

So there, we can still choose but, most probably, only among those 'below the belt'.