1970s Style?

I went to the Gap outlet yesterday because I have lost 15 pounds and I have one pair of pants that I can wear that do not fall off when I walk. Needed pants for now as I continue to lose weight.

I'm old enough to remember wearing jeans in the 1970s. Back then we would buy them and they would be thick denim with excess indigo dye. You'd come home and soak them in the bathtub ("Bethanne! You better not be making my tub blue!") then wear them. They would turn your legs blue. You'd wash them over and over and over time they would start to wear. When they did finally wear through years later, you patched them with cool fabrics. A patched pair of jeans was a sign of longevity and history of you and these wonderful jeans worth patching. We were all experts in patch work then.

Now, the Gap calls these 70s style. Well they are not really 100% denim cotton. They have stretch. And they have been faded and abraided with big holes. Someone my height (under 5 feet and shrinking) means the knee hole they put in is more like low calf hole!  They do flare but really not like they did in the 1970s (Landlubber Jeans - who remembers those?)

Well, close enough. They were a mark down and they fit for now but I am doing 4 patches and one foot cut off the bottom and then hem them. I bought the next size down so I could get a jump on patching those. Then when they do fit, it's just hemming to do. All in the name of weight loss!