Signs Your Jeans Are Too Tight

We all know the feeling: You couldn’t pay attention in class. You couldn’t eat your lunch. You fidgeted all day, thinking about the pending release. Once you get home, you run to your bedroom and reach for … yoga pants.

That’s right. We're not talking about anything dirty or farts (for once). We're talking about your too-tight jeans.

Our bodies are always growing and changing, and not in some cheesy after-school special way. Even when you think you’ve stopped growing, all of the sudden you sprout a butt or a hip, or more realistically, a small (and adorable!) gut. And at some point, you have to let go of that ill-fitting denim.

DoSomething.org's Jeans for Teens program gives your gently used jeans to homeless teens around the country. No doubt you’ve heard about the economy lately – and 1 in 45 children are homeless nationwide. Help the program; help your muffin top.

Signs you’ve outgrown of your jeans.

1.  Last time your mom washed them, she accidentally put them in your sister’s pile. Your younger sister, who is 7.

2. Once you get your jeans on, you have to perform several yoga lunges to stretch out the crotch. Yoga is great exercise. Having to Warrior II just for some minor comfort, is beyond exercise—it's torture.

3.  You eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast, and you can barely sit down afterward. This isn’t some giant meal, post-Thanksgiving bloat—this is cereal. And this is serious.

4. Your muffin top looks like a flotation device around your midsection. Just because you can button the top does not mean those jeans look good on you. A little muffin top is one thing, but this is more like a three-tier cake.

5. Your jeans leave imprints of four seams down your legs, which is getting pretty embarrassing in gym class. You could tell your friends that you’ve gotten a sweet seam tattoo, but I’m pretty sure they won’t believe you.

6. You have to go commando, because you can’t spare the millimeters required for underwear. We won’t recount the merits (or lack of) for going commando, but we all know that jeans were meant for underpants.

7. You’ve taken to showing off your socks, since your jeans are flooding so hard. Rainbow socks are definitely cool, but not everyone needs to know you’re wearing them.

8. Lastly, if reading this makes you want to take your pants off —do. And donate them to Jeans for Teens. You can drop them off at any Aeropostale, and then make your mom take you shopping for jeans that fit.

How do you know your jeans are too tight?  Have you ever had something embarrassing happen to you for wearing too-tight jeans?