I know that it is possible for earth-shattering, time-shifting, future-altering inventions and technology to become part of our DNA. We can go way back to the importance of fire to understand this.
#tbtowaybackintheday
All you have to do is ask anyone who spends any time with a child.
Person 1: “You can’t believe how great he is with his iPad! It’s in his genes.”
Person 2: “Well my 2 year old daughter can do anything with my phone. It’s in her genes!”
I know very little about genetics. But I do know that we aren’t going to have another generation that no longer knows how to use smart technology. It is now part of the DNA of this young generation. For the same reason as fire is? For survival? I have no idea.
But what I do know, is that since the beginning of women wearing jeans, women usually buy jeans a size too small. For real. It’s in our genes. Here’s a conversation that took place in my house about 6 months ago.
Grandson: Why are you lying on the bed like that?
Me: I’m zippering up my jeans.
Grandson: Why don’t you do that standing up?
Me: Because I can’t get the zipper up on my jeans if I’m standing up.
Grandson: Then why do you wear them?
Me: Don’t you have technology to go play with?
When did our DNA change so that we buy jeans we’re forced to zip lying down on a bed? Many women think that they look great with jeans that are tight fitting.
Until a meal.
And then a car ride.
And trying to drive while undoing the button at the top of the jeans.
I tried to find a photo of a woman struggling with her jeans zipper, but the only photos I could find were of models, or women who looked like models. Because believe me, I wasn’t going to put a photo of me on this post. And, as a caveat to my thesis, I’m leaving out the women who wear a size zero. But I certainly lay down on the bed to zipper my size 5 jeans. And it has been decades since I’ve worn size 5 jeans.
All you have to do is say in a room full of women “I had so much trouble zipping up these jeans today” and you’ll have 100% consensus on the zip-them-up-lying-on-the-bed fact.
Here’s the big question…..do men do that too? Like a secret dressing ritual? If so, I haven’t seen it. But I know why women wear jeans a size too small and zipper them up lying on the bed.
It’s in our genes.
saneteachers 
No guy I know lays on the bed. And that’s in our genes..:)
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Phew! That’s a relief!
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I see lots of women wearing form-fitting jeans, so you that the cloth of their jeans seems to act like an extra layer of skin for the form of their legs. But men usually wear comfortable, loose-fitting jeans. You can’t tell the shape of a man’s legs unless he wears shorts. As for me, that’s the kind of jeans I wear. And I’ve never had to lay on the bed to zip them up.
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My jeans definitely don’t fit like a second skin but I still have to lay down on the bed. So far the reaction from women has been that it’s hysterical and me are like WE WOULD NEVER DO THAT.
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I wear my pants a size too big so I don’t get cramped or squished. When I see men wear skinny jeans it gives me the willies. I live in Alberta and we have a lot of cowboys here and they wear super tight Wrangler jeans. And pointy boots. This kind of baffles my because on the one hand they claim to be hyper-masculine and yet the adorn the garb of the feminine.
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Like you, I just want to be comfortable. But somehow that philosophy doesn’t extend to jeans. And no comments from the peanut gallery about shapes of stomachs lol.
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Not a word.
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haha PHEW!
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I read this one! Thought I liked it AND commented on it. Guess not.
When I was a kid I used to lie on my bed to put my pants on but that’s just so I didn’t fall down.
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lol. Men don’t seem to get the lie down on the bed thing that women go through. My friend lay down on the bed to pull up her zipper on her jeans and burned her back on her curling iron that she had thrown on the bed first. That was an embarrassing story for her.
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Hahaha what’s a hot curling iron doing on her bed anyways? So when women try on jeans in a changing room…do they lie down or…?
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Omg that’s such a good point! I should have included that. Changing rooms are a lot like fun house mirror cubes. Horrible enough to be looking at yourself in a hopefully distorted mirror. Add jumping and hopping around on one foot and then two while stretching and zipping. Oh man, why didn’t I think of that?! Barb’s blog featuring Paul.
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See, now you write a whole new blog post about changing rooms! I imagine the hopping on one foot also includes landed on a stray pin on the ground. You’re welcome.
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It definitely does. But I try to keep my shoes on as long as possible. And thank you 🙂
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And totally ridiculous to put the curling iron on the bed.
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Food for thought ! Nice read. I always have tried the jump jump jump technique to get into my jeans ! #Womenwillbewome.
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I don’t think that I’ve ever done that. I’ll have to try! Thank you for reading and commenting on this post. 🙂
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I confess to not being ready for that punchline.
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I have just written a blog on the science side of genes and will be doing a small post daily for the next week you should check it out.
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I will. Thanks for checking out my blog, as well.
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Reblogged this on saneteachers and commented:
Thought I’d share this older post of mine with you. More DNA hits came in for me today and it made me think of this post. I’m trying not to ask my just-found 4th cousins if…..well you have to read it.
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Hehe, I don’t think I’ve ever tried to wear jeans that were too tight on me. I’d feel too self-conscious. But length-wise? Now that’s a different story. With my height of almost 5’8″, regular inseam jeans are usually too short, and the pants for tall women are usually too long. Plus, those tall pants hang in the crotch. So most of my pants are too short. Needless to say I wear calf-length boots in the winter and ballet flats with capri pants in the summer. 🙂
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I think many women buy clothes that they think should fit because they’ve almost lost all the weight they wanted, or they always buy size whatever but not all manufacturers are the same. PLUS, when they first come out of the dryer they need to be stretched out by bending and squating and laying down on the bed. No duh. And I’m short so I have the opposite problem with length. Cuff those babies.
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You can send me the excess material. 😉 I just had the hems lowered on a new pair of pants I bought. Let’s hope they’re long enough now!
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Lol
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I rarely wear jeans, but when I do, they are typically loose. I don’t like tight jeans. So no, have never done the zipping them while lying down thing.
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Even if you have, it’s ok to lie about it, lol.
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It’s definitely in the genes! And the jeans.
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I am just happy that I don’t have to wear mom jeans anymore since losing weight. I don’t know what the “in” brand of jeans is now, but the Levi’s I bought now have a bit of stretch built in.
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