The legacy of the ever plunging butt line

The cleavage is out, apparently. It is our buttocks which are now displayed, with waistbands which creep perilously closer to our crotch with every season's fashions. When 'low-rise' trousers came into fashion, I viewed them with suspicion. I knew this was trouble. I was a child of the eighties, when the only thing poking over your waistband was your collar, and even now, if anything below my ribcage is exposed, I feel as though I'm catching a chill.

That is my real problem with the 'low-riders'. They're so darned uncomfortable, especially in the winter, and they fall down all the time - it's just so annoying. It's now impossible to buy any trendy jeans which aren't cut to the crotch. I went out to buy myself a pair of new skinny jeans, hoping that now hemilines are narrowing, maybe they would use the extra fabric to raise the waistband! I searched high and low for any pair with a zip longer than two inches, but nope. I bought a pair anyway, but will just have to wear a nice, long vest with them to keep out the cold - so attractive.

I've also lost my waist thanks to low-rise waisbands, though I will agree that I've had to work harder to achieve a flat tum. I tried on a couple of skirts I've had for years, and I still take the same dress size, but doing up the waistband, which actually fastened around the waist, felt like doing up a whalebone corset. Of course, it could be just old-age, but I think we're so used to slouching round with our trousers hanging off our butts that our waistlines have become obsolete. It's evolution.

I also resent constantly having to view exposed underwear wherever I go. Having a coffee in a restaurant the other day, I didn't know where to look for a view that didn't put me off my gluten-free brownie. On almost every chair, women's bums spilled over their trousers, sometimes exposing pairs of dodgy knickers, and sometimes just lots of bulging flesh.
Even the slimmest of ladies carry some weight in that area, and some of these ladies had kissed slim hips goodbye a long time ago. In one way, it's nice that they felt so liberated, but for the casual observer, not so much.

I was going to take a picture with my phone and post it on here, but I read a piece on the 'Peeping Thong' pest at the University of Victoria. Women were outraged by photos of their exposed butts being posted on the web. I had to ask myself why, after idling counting at least six exposed thongs over coffee. If they were that bothered, they could always wear a vest...

Apart from the occasional glimpse of a designer logo on the waistband of their boxers, men remain largely untouched by this fashion phenomenon. Probably why it has hung around for so long. Look at all the fabric clothes manufacturers must be saving by leaving all of those hip bones uncovered, and I bet vest sales have gone through the roof, too, for the less inhibited among us, and those trying to avoid being on PeepingThong.com.

Am I the only woman that feels this way, or are there more of you out there that want to sit down in comfort, without the fear of exposing next week's washing (or ending up on 'Peeping Thong'!)?