Depending on your jean size, you might try Lane Bryant. They have a line of pants called Right Fit that take into account not just your size but your shape; different cuts of jean in the same style depending on how your weight is distributed. They start at a size 12, I think. I haven’t bought jeans there yet but I recently got a great pair of boot cut black pants. It’s especially nice if you are tall, because they carry plus size clothes that are sized for tall people too, not just average and petites like a lot of stores.
xanthous, you might have good luck there too, since they start at a 12.
Huh. I think you might have gotten irregulars. They sit a good inch or two below my navel, meaning about 3" below my natural waist. Then again, you said that you could wear juniors and look good in flap pockets, so that makes me think that maybe you’re just a freak.
As for the Gap Curvy Bootcut, I’ve the strangest experiences with that style. They change the style itself about yearly, and it seems like every-other incarnation fits me. Maybe this year I’ll be in luck. As a side note…is it just me, or has the Gap really gotten itself back on track this season? They went through a bad, teenage wannabe phase for a while there…
I recommend Riders by Lee. I’ve tried more expensive jeans, but the Riders are the only ones that actually fit me in the butt and the waist. They’re usually less than $20, and the stretchy fabric is super comfortable.
Actually, the Old Navy Sweetheart Cut is exactly the reason I started this thread. I put them on- they fit great, even though they’re a wee bit lower rise than I’m used to. Cut to three hours later: I’m constantly hiking them up from a deep sag- it’s like they’re falling off!
So unfortunately, the Sweetheart Cut is not for me.
My mom has had great luck with “Cruel Girl”. They are not too “mom” or too low to be classy. And they don’t have the big gap in the back. Their sizes run small.
I’ve had pretty good luck with Glo and Angel jeans… though they’re lower on the waist and targeted towards teens.
My youngest has had really good luck with St. Johns Bay from JC Penney. She gets the misses 12 and it fits her in the waist and through the hips without the gap problem. It’s a little looser fit, which she likes. Her older sister wouldn’t be caught dead in them, but they’d probably fit her, as well. They sit low enough in the waist to make her happy, and this is a kid who has never worn anything at the waistline in her life. They come in short, average and long, and at about 5’8" she gets the long. She likes them well enough to want more of them.
Okay, go get these. Seriously. While you’re in the western wear shop you’ll be going to to buy these, try on a type of jeans called 20X made by Wrangler. They’re branded 20X, not Wrangler, but that’s who makes them. As a woman with a waist at least a size smaller than my hips (usually), I can say that both of these brands are my new die-hards. I get the relaxed fit in both of them, and it wears like a dream. The biggest problem for me is that Cruel Girl recently decided that short women are taller than they previously thought. So a pair of jeans that used to fit as if they were made for me is now a few inches too long. But they’re worth buying and (theoretically) getting hemmed up.
They’re a bit pricey, with Cruel Girl being a bit more than 20X, but at ~$45/pair, they’re very reasonable for the amount of abuse they can take. It’s as if western wear shops sell jeans that are designed for women who want to look good and work hard at the same time. Imagine that. I am forever grateful to the man who tipped me off to these brands. Apparently they also do better things for any woman’s ass than any other brand except something called “Rockies” (also by Wrangler, I think). I’m not interested in Rockies because I like back pockets, but there ya go.
Help out someone who has to be dragged into the store every few years or so kicking and screaming – is there a set definition for what ‘curvy’ means in concrete measurements? If it helps, I think I have about a ten inch variance between waist and hips (the latter being the bigger measurement).
