When I was a teenager and in college, I only wore black jeans. It wasn’t a fashion statement, and it wasn’t because I loved black. I certainly wasn’t Goth by any means either. I simple knew that black is slimming, and I took that idea and ran with it. I had a few pairs of blue jeans, but I always felt like they made my butt look bigger. I can’t think of one woman on earth who wishes for that, so I stuck to the black and wore them exclusively for a very long time.

Today I wear mostly blue. In fact, I only own one pair of black jeans and I don’t even like them very much. It’s not the color, it’s that they don’t feel good on me for some reason. The blue jeans that I wear are darker blue, but I know feel more comfortable in that color and feel that they don’t have quite as harsh a look as the black jeans once did. The oddest thing is that my husband once wished I would wear something other than black, and now wants to know why all of my jeans are blue. You can’t win, right?

Black jeans may indeed may be slimming, but you have more to think about than what color you choose. If you get your jeans too baggy, you aren’t really doing much to look slimmer. Good black jeans should be form fitting at the top but come down to a boot cut or even a small flare at the bottom. The last thing you want to get when you buy black jeans is to buy ones that have a tapered ankle. If you have issues with the size of your butt, the tapers are only going to make your butt look larger. Even the straight less are iffy, but I do tend to like them as well.

You can find black jeans anywhere, but they aren’t as common as they once were. I am seeing more and more of them in the stores, so perhaps the color is coming back into style for jeans. Just remember to try on your jeans, and have a look at what you look like before you buy. The best jeans will be more about how you feel in them than anything else. Black jeans may make you look a little slimmer, but if they are uncomfortable, you may not feel good in them. When you are uncomfortable in your clothes, it shows.