Mom Jeans

Susan Orlean contemplates them:

It’s not that the term “mom” doesn’t sometimes serve a purpose besides being the tender name you call the woman who gave birth to you. The aforementioned mom jeans—medium wash denim, buttoned over the slightly-out-of-shape belly, tasteful stitching, legs neither wide enough to be subversive nor tight enough to be sexy—are a real thing; having the shorthand of describing them in one quick stroke is genius. Unfortunately, I feel mortified when I hear the term because I am a mom, or—as I prefer to say—I have a child.