A little Girl Talk: Blue Jeans, Pinterest and a Fashion Question

I certainly haven't run out of things to discuss, but this post may only appeal to 50% of my blog readers.

In the last month I have become addicted to interested in Pinterest. You know Pinterest, right?

If not, the Spark notes version (kids these days use Spark notes-- if you're as old as me, you used Cliff notes. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to) is that Pinterest is like an online bulletin board/ file cabinet. You see something cool online that you like, you 'pin it' to your board (and you can have several boards -- hence the file cabinet analogy). You can go browse at Pinterest what other people have pinned to their boards.

You can get great ideas on... EVERYTHING!! House decor, fashion, crafts, recipes, wedding, baby, blah, blah, on and on. And, like most everything else on the Internet, you can sit in front of it for half a second and then look up and an hour is gone.

For those of you that are on Pinterest -- can I grinch for a minute? Pinterest pet peeve -- you click on a pin "Great tutorial of how to upholster a chair" -- and it has been  pinned to the wrong web page! Grrrrrr. Get it right, people! Two most common errors are to pin to a Google image or to pin to the front page of a blog instead of the individual blog post. It isn't hard. Really.

The thing that has been the most helpful for me -- a fashion moron -- has been some fashion helps. I don't know where people originally find them, but I come across what I will call "outfit boards" like so:

I re-pinned this to my board to show myself -- hey, it's not so hard to put together a cute outfit AND people actually DO wear fishing lures as earrings.

I have several of these "boots and jeans" combos on my "My Style" board. I'm sure this causes people to question: "I have NEVER seen Sarah in boots (of the riding-type variety) and jeans."

No. No, you haven't. You know why?

Because God BLESSED me with some uber-sturdy legs that can run or run/walk tremendously great distances and other such things -- but cannot be petite and all and fit inside standard riding boots.

However, boot makers are catching on. A few weeks ago in Nordstrom's I noticed a gorgeous riding boot -- with a stretchy panel in the back for those of us with ample calves. At $100, it was still pricey, but WAY less than some of the costlier riding boots I have seen. Mental note to check back when I scrape together some dollars.

So LAST week I was in Target picking up some stuff for dinner and I see some ruckus over by the shoes. "Oh... yeah. I think this is the day that new line was coming out." Y'all -- that kind of thing is SO not on my radar! I wandered over to see if there were any sandals I may like on sale...

Lo and behold... boots with a stretchy panel. Right there in the Tar-jay. For $34.99. 

And I praised the Lord right there in the shoe department. Not even kidding. So I bought it for the family to give to me for my birthday. Boo to the yah.

So now I have ideas pinned. I have boots.  And I have a question:

If I am going to tuck my jeans into my boots, do they have to be skinny jeans? 

If I'm not wearing skinny jeans, but I do have on pull-on (only -- no zippers) boots with lotsa-leg in there, how do I keep my jeans from crawling back up around my knees? 

These are the burning fashion questions, people...

So. You? Do you Pinterest? Can you help me out with the boots/ jeans conundrum? I'm in need, here, people...