to think that buying jeans is just simply soul destroying? Argh!

[MandyMcFly]

I hate buying jeans!

I love clothes shopping, but buying jeans has to be the most depressing thing ever. It is always guaranteed to make me feel fat, and it is very infuriating how you can be one size in a certain pair and a different size in another pair in the same shop. Is it just me who seems to be 2 sizes bigger when it comes to jeans? Is it the curse of having hips?

Sorry, just need to let off some steam!!

I hate buying jeans with a passion - it drives me insane.

I want the jeans equivalent of Rigby and Peller where you walk in, they look you up and down, and then retrieve jeans of the perfect size and the most flattering to you that they have. I'm still dreaming

CMOT I read an article with Brix Smith who owns Start boutique in which she did exactly that - like a jeans clinic. You would pay £££££ for the jeans though!

OP I've been there too but now I have tracked down the jeans that work for me. I have hips too so try these... Gap curvy jeans, Boden wideleg, and Sainsbury's TU bootleg (yes really - perfect fit).

I hate buying jeans. I'm very short so I am stuck with petite ones anyway or getting them turned up. I am often resigned to buying the ones that look least bad. Navigating the different cuts available is a nightmare.

There's no law that says you have to wear jeans ever at all!

I hate buying jeans too. Am very short. Hourglass figure.
Loads of women hate buying jeans don't they?
I too read about Brix.
But I don't want to spend £200 on jeans. I want someone to teach me whether to buy Primark, Asda, GAP, 501's, M&S, for £9.99 or £30. Not £300.

I hate it too, also hippy. After years of "research" I find that I can pretty much always get soemthing that I like, that fits in FatFace.

Bonsoir No there isn't, and tbh I wear them less and less now because I can't find ones I like. But given that they are a mainstream garment it shouldn't be so hard to find decently fitting ones!

I also don't want to spend lots. Magazines seem to assume you will be spending £50 minimum on jeans. My standard used to be M&S ones for £20-30 but even those aren't reliable anymore.

I wear Levi's jeans normally. I went into the Levi's shop with some money I had been give, thinking I would buy myself a new pair, as have hardly bought any clothes since having DS2. I found a pair I liked, and asked if they had them in a XX leg with a XX waist.

The poor trendy boy behind the counter had to find a diplomatic way of telling me that they didn't make jeans in that particular measurement combination...ie I am massively out of proportion. It was cringey. I could have had them in my waist size with a longer leg, and had them taken up, but by this time, my heart was on the floor, and I just mumbled and sloped off. Blushing furiously.

I hardly wear jeans anymore anyway, so maybe it saved me from wasting the money!!

Oh, yes, with you all on this one.

I don't think it makes the slightest difference what size you are either - I'm reasonably petite, but all the jeans I buy to fit my hips are too big round the waist. Even the low waisted ones. Grrr.

Oh Mandy I am SO with you on this!

Isn't it just the most depressing experience? I am tall, could do with losing a bit, but not hugely big or anything unusual.

I am a little (ok a lot) bottom heavy and pear shaped. Jeans and trousers are a nightmare. I hate it so so much.

I have found Dorothy Perkins jeans to be pretty good, but all in all, whatever I buy is usually a compromise. I just get something, anything, in gratitude just because I am relieved to find something that actually fits for once

It really does make me feel like I must be a freakish shape or something - but even at my most critical, I know it's not me.

Or maybe it is!

I used to but now I buy the "boyfriend" cut jeans from Next, every design in either size 10 or 12 in that cut fits and suits me - my thighs are bit big and out of proportion so I do find it difficult to find jeans that fit but these always do. I have to get them turned up but it's worth it.

Next jeans have lots of stretch in them, I also have Gap Curvy, and oddly, Gap Long and lean.

I am a curvy shape (not curvy as a synonym for big, but I have small waist and wide hips)and these are my best jeans.

Chandon, are the Gap ones stretchy round the waist? I have bought several pairs of jeans from Next that start off looking nice but they are so stretchy that after the first couple of wears they develop a 'waistgap'. I've sworn off Next now but don't know what else to try.

i wish i had longer to write a proper i hate buying jeans message but you are definitely not being unreasonable it is a hellish experience and one i have to go through again soon

i am with you.

i started going for boyfriend fit jeans a couple of years ago. i am about a 14 with small waist and big thighs. I have to get jeans that aren't tight around the knee at all, so it's either boyfriend cut or really flared to compensate!!! I am to heavy of thigh for bootlegs.

sizewise, having to go up 2 sizes, whatever size you are to begin with is miserable.

Next really confused me, I bought a pair of jeans from there size xx and then thought I'd buy another pair as the first pair fit so well, however I bought the same type, same make and same size etc just a slightly different colour and they did not even nearly fit!!! WTF!!! I have recently bought a pair of jeans from simply be and have bought a size smaller than I am normally and they fit perfect! What do you do!?!?!?!?

chezza i had that once, tried on a pair in size 14, but they were a bit tight and a bit long. tried on the shorter leg in the same size and they fitted perfectly. ???

Can I recommend Lands End? I have been buying my jeans from them for about 17 years now, and they do a variety of styles, leg lengths and sizes. You can chose your size and then the leg length. They are the most comfortable jeans I have ever had, they wash and wear well, and even now, the ones I get are £29.50 a pop, and last me on average 3 years a pair. Furthermore if you don't like them for any reason at all, you can return them and get your money back.

Gosh I am glad that I'm not the only one!
Thanks for all the reccomendations, I will definitely try Gap Curvy, as I am the same as chandon I have a small waist but quite wide hips, but slim on the actual legs so it is a nightmare! I am a size 8 on top, but my massive hips sometimes make me look as if my top half is stuck onto somebody elses bottom half! And also...changing room mirrors - horrible inventions!!

Thanks scaryteacher I will look into that! and everyone else who has posted, it's nice knowing it's not just you isn't it? Sometimes I feel like I must have just put on a stone without realising!!

I've had a lot of success lately with New Look jeans. The pair that fits me best are £10!! Currently dieting though to get into the GAP jeans that I bought 2.5 years ago and haven't yet removed the tags from. They were a teeny bit snug then, and would be impossible to get into now!! No doubt by the time I return to that size, I will have changed shape and they won't fit anyway.

I've given up on jeans - never wear them - after several abortive and really embarassing trips to try jeans on over the years!

YANBU. When I was a skinny minnie I always found that River Island were great for jeans oddly enough, but now I am not so skinny it is tough tough tough! Especially frustrating as good jeans are such a staple, and as a result they're important and most people are prepared to spend a little money on them!

Oh, and because I am realtively tall and need a 34" inside leg, apparently according to Gap that means I can't physically also be a size 16. I'm only allowed a 32" leg now I've gone above a 14. Hmmm.

Buying jeans is awful because they all look pretty similar on the hanger/shelf but are very very different when you put them on.

Plus there's no wya to guage the stretch-spring back that jeans get when you wear them and wash them.