How to Buy Women's Jeans?

Answer 1

For most women, jeans tend to be more difficult to find the proper look, size, and fit. Many women find it upsetting that they take one size larger in jeans than they do in casual or dress pants. That’s because denim is made with cotton, it runs small and definitely changes sizes with washing. Remember those jeans commercials back in the 1980’s where women were jumping up and down or lying flat on their beds trying yanking on the zippers struggling to get their jeans on? Jeans also vary so much more in terms of the rise, which directly affects how much gap there’s going to be behind the waist.

Female clothing sizes are divided into different types such as misses’, miss petite, juniors, junior petite, young junior, and women’s. To add further confusion, jeans are available in the following styles: high rise, low rise, medium rise, relaxed, snug, straight, skinny, cropped, boot, trouser, and more. It’s sort of like ordering at Starbucks but instead of, “Give me a venti decaf soy sugar free vanilla latte,” you’re adding layers of choices in terms of fit and style.

It is recommended that you try jeans on before buying them, including trying to walk, stretch, and sit in them before deciding whether or not they fit the way you want them to fit. As previously mentioned, jeans loosen up somewhat while you wear them and then shrink after you wash them.

Just like other women’s clothing, choosing the best-fitting pair of jeans is related to your body type. Lower rise jeans flatter women with shoulders that are wider than their hips because it balances out the shoulders with the lower body. Women with hourglass figures obviously look good in anything, but especially good in skinny jeans. Bootcut jeans and jeans with cuffs aren’t good for petite women because they make their legs look even shorter, but bootcut jeans with a mid rise are good with women who are full around the middle because they can minimize the stomach.

There are also jeans made especially for maternity and plus-size women.