{"id":12861,"date":"2021-03-31T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2021-03-30T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:53:33","slug":"is-america-slipping-into-a-fat-jeans-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/is-america-slipping-into-a-fat-jeans-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America slipping into a fat-jeans phase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must voice support for my millennial sisters who have spent much of this year having fashion choices\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.papercitymag.com\/culture\/gen-z-versus-millennials-war-generation-x-defends-side-parts-skinny-jeans\/\">heckled by the youth<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videtteonline.com\/features\/it-s-a-gen-eat-gen-world-a-look-at-millennials-vs-generation-z\/article_a17cab76-7bca-11eb-af22-bf7c9ec67326.html\">Generation Z<\/a>\u00a0who wouldn&#8217;t know a pair of JNCOs if it walked up and said howdy. We shall not be dictated to by people wearing jeans with giant holes on the thighs. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/morgansloss1\/millennials-roasting-gen-z\">this tweet compilation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we have these two stories that aren&#8217;t officially related, but might well be &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>As consumers venture back into shopping malls and fill online carts, retailers say they\u2019re adjusting accordingly by ramping up orders for spring merchandise and displaying <strong>wide-leg jeans<\/strong> and colorful tops more prominently. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/03\/18\/dresses-jeans-suits-shopping-again\/\">Washington Post<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The American Psychological Association\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2021\/03\/one-year-pandemic-stress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stress in America pandemic survey<\/a>\u00a0polled 3,013 adults in the U.S. and found that the majority, 61%, said they experienced undesired weight changes. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsgw.com\/most-americans-say-the-pandemic-has-been-bad-for-their-weight\/\">CBS<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the combination of a 15-month-old decade, new president and a desire to put the plague in the past is making things ripe for a change. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised.<\/p>\n<h5>Look, if every grocery store in a 30-mile radius never has any of three Healthy Choice dinners I want, I&#8217;m totally justified if not obligated to pop in yet another pizza, right?<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must voice support for my millennial sisters who have spent much of this year having fashion choices\u00a0heckled by the youth of Generation Z\u00a0who wouldn&#8217;t know a pair of JNCOs if it walked up and said howdy. We shall not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/is-america-slipping-into-a-fat-jeans-phase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}