mom jeans
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mom jeans
First recorded in 1990–95
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“Or maybe it's just a fad, and these are their mom jeans that they're bringing back in style.”
From National Geographic ● Oct. 30, 2023
Audiences may roll their eyes, but the director, David Frankel, plays up the hook: One more slow-mo shot of dad sneakers or mom jeans and certain sequences could double as ads for Walmart clothing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Fully made up as Tripp at home — sporting washed-out mom jeans, a cream turtleneck and a wool sweater — Paulson revealed that she’d recently had her first dream about her complicated quarry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
“I feel like it would give in to what mom jeans are,” says the college senior.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2021
My mother, she had on her usual mom jeans, sweater, a light jacket, and sneakers.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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