The joys of shopping for pants

[dragonimp]

I'm on the way to being vanity sized out of existence. It's bad enough that it's nearly impossible to find pants that fit both my hips and my waist, but yesterday I was finding maybe one or two pairs in my size in any given brand, and if I was really lucky they wouldn't be the "short" cut. And of course, none of them really fit. When I do find some that fit, what usually seems to happen is that I will not be able to find that particular cut again (Gloria Vanderbilt), or the manufacturer will change the cut (Lee). But this did give me the motivation to finally rip the seams of an old and very warn pair of jeans that fit me damn near perfectly. I plan to trace the pieces and use that as a pattern to make my own, because it's getting to the point where the stores won't acknowledge my size exists, let alone my body type!

Comments

[randomcheeses]

I feel your pain. It took me years to find jeans I could wear.

[dragonimp]

I think it wouldn't be so difficult if most clothes weren't made to some nonexistent average. I get that women are pretty varied, but geez, they could do better than that -_-.

[randomcheeses]

Yep. Sometime when browsing for clothes, all I can think is 'wtf? female legs are not like that, and if they are, something is seriously wrong'.

[pickleweasel]

Ugh, that suckssss. I hate hate hate pants shopping. They rarely fit well all over. I hope you can succeed in making yourself some awesome pants!

[dragonimp]

I think it's the curse of having hips. Men have it so easy.

First I need to get some decent denim - which is probably going to mean ordering online!

[inugrlrayn.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it helps, but Target has started doing jeans by body type. They've got different numbers for different fits. I struggle to find affordable pants ANYWHERE, but I can usually find something there. The Limited also does really awesome slacks by body type and size, but they're also stupidly expensive.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that, I'm going to have to check that out! I have a feeling I'm still going to run into the vanity sizing issue but jeans in a variety of body types sounds promising.