Jennifer Lopez’s Low-Rise Jeans Are Proof We Can't Stop Them From Coming Back

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Anyone with any body type can wear whatever jeans they want, period. But let’s not pretend multiple generations haven’t been traumatized by low-rise jeans.

And Jennifer Lopez seems dead set on bringing them back. Did a shudder just run down anyone else’s spine? Let’s just say it: JLowrise.

Medium- and high-rise jeans are so forgiving. They allow for the infamous “millennial tuck”—you can bend over without risking butt-crack exposure, and if you add a crop top, it’s giving youthful carefree, not belly dancer.

Low-rise jeans on the other hand…you can’t even use the pockets! But if you’re Jennifer Lopez, you don’t need pockets, and she’s recently been stepping out in light-wash, low-rise denim with a flared hem. Everything old is new again.

She wore the ’00s staple to a screening of her new drama Unstoppable as part of a twist on the Canadian tuxedo. She paired them with a matching—though not denim—baby blue velvet trim Gucci blazer and accessorizing with blush pink suede peep-toe heels from Dolce & Gabbana, per Page Six.

The outlet further noted that just a week prior, she stepped out to shop in Beverly Hills in distressed True Religions (has a more 2004 sentence ever been written?), though those actually were vintage and pulled from the “archives.” I guess archival jeans had to happen sometime.

Contrast this with Lopez’'s jeans strategy from mere months ago. In April she went house hunting in wide-leg denim with a raw hem, then repeated the silhouette with a dirtied-up pair a week later. She sported an even wider pair to a basketball game back in March. Low-rise and baggy happened. Enormous and tied with a shoelace happened. Barrel-cut very much happened.

But in late October we got our first inkling of the turnaround to come, when she wore an ultra-distressed pair of boot-cuts (with a higher waist, mind you), that was so 2002 it almost hurt.

As Lopez is one of the few A-listers of her age whom we regularly see in jeans, it’s an interesting evolution. Watch this space.

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