I love you, Banana!
I've had the biggest struggle with suits for a while now. My body just isn't cut right for the suits that they make where the waist comes at your actual waist. To me that is WAY too high for me. I like it when pants come right below my belly button because that is right below where most of my fat is, but apparently no deisgner is on board with the low waist suit idea. I mean you'd think in a world where jeans keep getting lower and lower and now there is not only low rise but ultra low rise and "show your ass crack" low rise that deisgners would realize that we all don't like wearing our pants right below our boobs. So anyways, I hate suits. But unfortunately for me, I've picked a career where suits are a necessary evil. So I generally go with skirt suits, even though I hate wearing pantyhose, especially in the summer in the south, because they are at least somewhat comfortable. But pant suits are just a big no because I feel like I'm all crammed in at the waist but then it gets baggy in my lower hip area.
So what's my point? I have one - I promise. I went to Banana Republic on the advice of a friend, and they have THREE (count them THREE) types of pants for suits. There is the traditional cut that comes at your waist, there is the slightly below your waist cut, and there is the contoured cut that curves at the hip in addition to being low-waist. I am in love. I was able to sit down in a pair of the pants without feeling like my circulation was being cut off and they weren't too baggy in the lower hip area! Hurray for Banana for finally making a suit I will wear. Now if we could just negotiate the price....$200 bucks for a suit jacket is a little high, but the pants and skirts that go with are about 80 each, so if I get the matching pants and skirt for the suit jacket that means that each suit is $200, which is still higher than what I'd pay for a nice Tahari suit at Filene's, but I'm comfortable and can breathe and it actually looks like it fits me, so amen to that. Oh and I can buy a different size in the jacket than the pants - what a novel idea!!!
So what's my point? I have one - I promise. I went to Banana Republic on the advice of a friend, and they have THREE (count them THREE) types of pants for suits. There is the traditional cut that comes at your waist, there is the slightly below your waist cut, and there is the contoured cut that curves at the hip in addition to being low-waist. I am in love. I was able to sit down in a pair of the pants without feeling like my circulation was being cut off and they weren't too baggy in the lower hip area! Hurray for Banana for finally making a suit I will wear. Now if we could just negotiate the price....$200 bucks for a suit jacket is a little high, but the pants and skirts that go with are about 80 each, so if I get the matching pants and skirt for the suit jacket that means that each suit is $200, which is still higher than what I'd pay for a nice Tahari suit at Filene's, but I'm comfortable and can breathe and it actually looks like it fits me, so amen to that. Oh and I can buy a different size in the jacket than the pants - what a novel idea!!!