Ill fitting jeans...no more!

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We were making dinner and flipping around on the tv and caught the tail end of a segment about a new boutique that made jeans that had...um....cup? sizes. Supposedly, they were "Catching on" and women could be liberated from ill fitting jeans because these were specifically adjusted to your rear end. Your...um...derriere was size A through J for a more custom fit

Heck, i think women want well fitting, flattering jeans but I highly doubt ladies are going to want to think about their backside in terms of a letter! There will be articles on most women wearing the wrong size rear end jeans and others trying to prey on their fears of such lol.

I can see it now. If it catches on and trickles down to places that sell jeans for less than $245, which these were, they won't have all 10 sizes, but will have only 2 or 3 rear end sizes per jean size and folks will be back to dealing with ill fitting jeans again.

So...does anyone live near this boutique, and if not, do you think that this has a chance of catching on? Or it will be just a speedbump/footnote in fashion (perhaps non)history.

:puzzled:

Chris
 
Mine are so ill fitting that I can pull them off without undoing them :( If they fit my hips, they are too big in the waist and vice versa. I don't think my butt is that big but I have wide hips that's all. I wonder if "butt cup sizes" would make a difference in hip sizes?
Goodness gracious, I just discovered what bra cup size I am and now have to deal with butt cheek size? :D

Lei
 
Actually, it kind of makes sense to fit jeans in the same manner as bras. After all, its two glutinous bulges that need support and the hips have to be brought into account too for width, PLUS there is the waist on top of that AND the thighs... let along length. Come to think of it, they are harder to fit than a bra... I think Hatty has it right... ah for the good old days of camel toes...
 
"support"???

they are muscles that support you, you don't have to support them!!! for most folks anyways. But Heck, some bodybuilders even get rear implants.

I do think jeans are a problem for any gal with an hourglass shape or perhaps pear shaped with a tiny waist. And more women are statistically pear shape than the straighter figure or the apple shaped figure that most jeans are made for.
 
I absolutely detest shopping for jeans...it is next to impossible to find a pair that fits both my waist and my hips/thighs. The closest I came last year was when I discovered I had tried on a pair of men's jeans by mistake!

When I do finally get up the gumption to go jean shopping again, I will be shopping in the men's department. I have to say, I think men's sizing makes so much more sense - they do it by waist and inseam measurements instead of an arbitrary number size!

For women's pants, I think it would make a lot of sense to size them by waist & hip measurements. It would certainly make it a lot easier to find a pair that fits.

Laura
 
I hate jeans shopping too. The pair of jeans I have now are ones I bought from Gap in 2003 but I've lost so much weight since then that now they are big but I can't find another pair that fit me decently so I have to wear them.

Plus too, I have to contend with length as tall sizes aren't that common over here. The tall ones that they do have, are made for super model proportions as apparently you can't be more than a size 2 if you are tall.

My hips are exactly 10" wider than my waist (LOL and that is without a corset on so you can imagine the difference with a corset on which is why I can't even begin to wear my corset everyday as NOTHING would fit me then!!) and I find that everything is too narrow in the hip for me.

Lei
 
My hips are exactly 10" wider than my waist

That is my problem too..just subtract another inch form the waist.

Have you tried 50s jeans, Lei? I have a pair that i need one size up on really but the proportions are a bit closer to correct than modern jeans i have ever found. (but finding them...ha ha ha. )

In modern jeans, I am on the opposite spectrum and it is no better... the "short sizes" are great length wise if i wear boots with a decent heel but i step on the cuffs if i am in flatter soled shoes. I finally found a pair of jeans that have some stretch in them so aren't *too* bad because they look normal in the front, but i have to still belt them so they dont gap quite so much in the back.

I can't do the men's department because they don't make an inseam short enough. They stop at about a 28/29" inseam and then i have to go to the young mens/boys dept. (again, doable if i wore heels, but thats not the point of wearing jeans) And i think they stop at a 28" waist too. Maybe i have to try the "young mens" department but then who knows if i could zip em up
 
and me!! what is it with vintage gals, lol! i tend to go with high waisted, wide legged 60's flares - or 40's sailor-style swing pants as you can lace the back up.
i too hate shopping for jeans, and get really panicky when the ones i do have start to wear!
 
>Have you tried 50s jeans, Lei? I have a pair that i need one size up on really but the proportions are a bit closer to correct than modern jeans i have ever found. (but finding them...ha ha ha. )

I have NEVER seen 50's jeans over here, EVER! Even if I did find them, I bet they would be too short for me anyways :( The stupid Gap stopped doing long lengths here in the UK in my size too which REALLY peeves me. The men's department, forget it, as they hips are WAY too narrow on them. I remember when I was 15 and my jeans were in the wash and I went to wear a pair of my dad's as he had a 34" waist and I couldn't get them past my thighs and he's over 6'! LOL!

Who designs women's clothing anyways? What frickin' planet are they on??
Any why too do men's clothing go by measurements when they have less stuff to fit?? You would have thought than women's clothing would have gone by measurements instead as we have to take ito account boob, waist, hip AND height AND whether you are short or long waisted??? A man is straight up and down so there really isn't anything to fit!!

Lei
 
I don't know, Harriet, if it is necessarily "vintage gals" who have the problem but i think we are just more conscious of things not fitting properly because we know about the other "fits" out there available to us.

If i was my sister, who doesn't like the whole idea of vintage, likes to wear exactly what her friends wear etc, and things didn't fit quite right, i wouldnt know they werent supposed to fit that way because i had no other reality. Does that make any sense? And you begin blaming your body, not realizing that the scaling/sizing is not for you. Well, there are juniors, misses, petites, talls etc but you really have one sizing scale for each. i can use the modern sizing scale and look not quite right an
d get by with that or i can wear something that is a half size from the 50s and it fits me to a "T". Its all about figuring out where you fit in. But its a darn shame that they make things for the "average" or actual "median" woman and it ends up not fitting anyone. Just like "one size fits all" - oftentimes a lot of people can get it over their heads, but it flatters very few.
 
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