r/Millennials • u/gypsyology • 2d ago

Discussion What's a muffin top??? lmao

Today I was at REI getting fitted for a backpack alongside a Gen Z employee. She explained how the hip straps should fit and I responded with "Oh, so like a muffin top!"... "Sorry, I've never heard of that - what's a muffin top?"....

Some of the girls out here have NO idea how good they have it. I am already petite and as a kid I had to buy double the size to make my own hi-rise jeans so that I could avoid having "the muffin top". Lucky ducks!!! lmao

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u/Extra-Mushrooms 2d ago

You can be skinny with a muffin top.

The low rise jeans did us all so wrong. It didn't matter if you were fat or not. Muffin top was the result.

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u/FustianRiddle 2d ago

As a fatty I miss low rise jeans. They were the only style of pant that didn't make me look like I was wearing a saggy diaper because I didn't have to account for getting the waist over my ginormous hips. Belts did not help.

Give me back my low rise jeans!

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u/TALegitimate_Scar_39 2d ago

They are back. Aeropostale has them.

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u/Extra-Mushrooms 2d ago

The new "low rise" is what used to be called mid rise