I bought three pairs of Levi’s “Signature” jeans about a year ago. Don’t know if they’re the same as the Target jeans (I got mine at a Canadian Wal-Mart). I tried on one pair in my usual size. That pair fit fine, so, since they were on sale and pretty inexpensive, I grabbed two more off the shelf and bought all three.
The other two pairs might as well have been different sizes. They’re not even in the ballpark. Ridiculous.
I think I hadn’t realized how much variation there is within a size because for something like twenty years my go-to jeans were Levi’s 501’s, the shrink-to-fit kind. There’s no point in trying them on in the store – you’ve got to buy them a couple of inches over your normal waist/inseam size and wash and dry them a bunch of times before they fit.
I think I’m going back to them. They always seemed to end up fitting right, and they lasted for years.