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You wouldn’t have thought it a couple of years ago, but now high-waisted jeans are finally coming back into fashion. Thankfully, one of the benefits of this is no more “muffin top” - the unflattering flab which overhangs your trousers. Though no one would deny that hips are great, muffin tops have become something of an embarrassment for everyone caught displaying them. And yet for anyone who is not a supermodel, it seems inevitable. So are high-waisted trousers the answer? Marks and Spencer certainly seem to think so, and the whole of their next summer’s wardrobe will be filled with them.

The term “muffin top” has now become such a vocabulary mainstay that it is even in the dictionary now. It conjures up the perfect visual image - only one that is not so sweet. Originally popularised by Australian comedy Kath and Kim, shown on BBC Two, it is now a term almost every woman knows and fears. Apparently the blame for muffin tops goes to designers, whose outfits, whilst fitting the models perfectly, do not seem to translate to an average British audience. As Andrew Groves, head of fashion at Westminster University says:

“They worry about what looks good on the proportions of a model but not your average woman. As a result, there is a mismatch of image from the catwalks to the High Street.”

But remember before you go to rush out to buy a new pair of high-waisted trousers to hide your bulges that even with high-waisters there is a bulge problem, only this time it will be your tummy. It’s a sad fact that for many women, though they will now have more of a choice, what a choice it will be: looking like a muffin or looking pregnant.

Personally, however, I don’t think there is really so much to fear. I think the obvious rule still stands that if you are overweight then anything to you wear that is too tight (low-waisted or high-waisted) is going to look terrible. Furthermore, it is obvious that the different styles of jeans out there are designed to suit women with different body shapes. When will women realise that wearing what looks good and not what fashion dictates is the ultimate fashion gospel?

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