Lower rise jeans give me a butt, if I wear jeans with the regular waist they gap in the back at the waist because I have no fat back there, and they pooch out in the tummy and the waistband rolls/folds in the front from the pressure of my belly. But I found some nice lower rise jeans at TARGET of all places- they are kind of a thinner material, they don't make my butt look like a wall, they don't make my tummy hang out or bunch, and they don't cling in the wrong places, and they are LONG! I used to only be able to find long jeans at the Gap. Now..when you talk about women who shouldn't be wearing them at all..they are usually wearing a style meant for juniors, usually too small anyway, and wearing the wrong clothes with them. Low rises flatter most bodies.