Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 16, 2019

Go back to bell-bottoms.

We of the older generation understand the GRAVITY of the situation, now knowing that gravity sucks ! Do I hear a ‘YEEAAH’?

Most women have NO business wearing yoga pants… and yet they persist.

I hope she doesn’t feel that way about her lover – Arlo.

The body is a package containing something unique and priceless — you!

It would be easier one leg at a time and your feet through.

Same Janet.

Bellbottoms then, bellbottom now.

Janis, Standing up straight would help… shoulders curled forward automatically causes the rest of your fineness to pooch out in front and sag elsewhere. Shoulders back, head up, and NOW look at yourself in the mirror. Thank you.

sorry, but I’m still not getting the “star crossed” part ???

Guard your words, Janice. Remember what happened to Romeo and Juliet. :o(

I have a pair of Navy slacks that I only wear for gardening and paining, but they fit and it’s been 40 years.

You know, it’s really not difficult to spell someone’s name right. It’s Janis, J A N I S, Janis. Not Janet, not Janice…

Cross your heart.

Somebody’s been watching me put on panty hose

Bless her heart! We’ve all been there,Janis!!!!! Just put on your biggest smile and forget about it. Works for me!

You thinking retirement she might cut herself a little slack

‘Star crossed’? Some of the stars of today can seriously out butt you.

I feel ya, Janis. I was a size 0 in high school, and now 4 kids later, it seems a size 4 is as small as i can get with exercise and proper eating! But the husband loves the curves that didn’t show up until after kids. I’ve learned to appreciate what I have.

“Star-crossed” is a reference to lines in the prologue of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” It means “cursed” as if by a malign astrological influence. Seems a bit overstated for being unhappy with the size of your hips. That’s maybe the joke: a very attractive woman not seeing how little it matters that she’s grown slightly beyond her adolescent proportions.

We feel your pain, Janis. I managed to keep my youthful shape into my 40s. Even after a late pregnancy I was still wearing clothes from my teens. But, a bout of post-partum depression and (the pills prescribed,) plus gravity did in my figure. Sooner or later, you learn to wear what fits well.

The older I get the better I was.

I don’t get it. Did she wear baggy pants in college when she was thin, and now she wears skinny pants when she is heavier?

I ignore the current “style” and wear what I like. Though I am a low key dresser. And male.

Ah, the hippie days! Groovy!

Youth is wasted upon the young

I prefer broomstick skirts when my weight is fluctuating. They have a drawstring waist and are nice enough to go to town in on short notice. Pants just don’t want to cooperate sometimes.

Broomstick skirts are the cure!

Good one, David Hu!e Green!

Size 4, seriously? That IS bragging.

My wife got mad when I complimented her on wearing her old bell bottoms; then I found out she was wearing shorts…

I weigh (within 3 pounds up and down over the week) the same as when I graduated from high school after losing around 70 pounds over about a decade plus ago. I know most people who say they weigh what they weighed in high school are bragging about still be thin and in shape. I was fat in high school and am fat now.

What does bother me is that after losing the 70 pounds and keeping it off over 10 years plus I am still the same size as I was before I lost the 70 pounds – which is a good 4 sizes larger than I was in high school. Or as my husband said to me when I complained about the lack of change of size – it is a good thing I did not change size after losing 70 pounds. I can’t find clothes I like to replace what wears out and would have even more of a problem if I did not have the clothes that fit me 70 years ago to still wear.