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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Subject: Re: Buying jeans
- Message-ID: <98938@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:29:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.204018.7456@news2.cis.umn.edu> sapphire@wings.micro.umn.edu (Theresa Jarosz Alberti) writes:
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- >I was wondering if anyone else had trouble buying jeans.
-
- This is like asking if the Pope is Catholic.
-
- >Most jeans seem
- >to be styled towards apple-shaped people (carrying weight in their
- >abdomen) whereas I'm more pear-shaped (carrying weight in the hips and
- >thighs).
-
- And I would say just the opposite! I'm "apple-shaped," and when I find
- jeans that fit me in the waist and tummy, they look elephantine on my
- bottom and legs. My friend, who's shaped like you, and I always debate
- this point. I really have to wonder just who these jeans are really
- supposed to fit.
-
- >I found a pair of jeans at Lane Bryant a few years back that
- >had elastic sewn into the waistband and these fit me well. Now Lane
- >Bryant no longer carries this style (and I've not seen it elsewhere).
- >They carry stretch jeans that have no stretch to the waist-- so if I buy
- >a size to fit my derierre, I get a waist-line that's rediculously baggy.
-
- You'd probably like the ones I currently wear ... it seems to me that
- they'd fit you better, but you may feel the opposite! As usual, they
- fit my waist and tummy but bag around the butt and legs. They're Lee jeans,
- with an elastic waist. I bought them in the Plus section of a local
- department store; they had a much wider variety of jeans than Lane Bryant.
-
- This department store is great, by the way (Strawbridge & Clothier,
- downtown Philly); they have almost an entire floor devoted to the
- larger-size woman! Much nicer stuff than you'd get at Lane Bryant.
-
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