Thank you anthrokeight! Armed with your excellent advice about jeans to look at in New York, I've come home with a pair of Levi's defined waist bootcut jeans from Macy's, and two pairs of dark blue straight leg jeans from Coldwater Creek, which I would certainly never have found otherwise. Of course, now I wish I'd bought more pairs...

I think I'm getting over my fear of colored denim. I recently bought two pairs of capri-length jeans in brushed denim. One is a pastel coral/peach color, and the other is butter yellow. I started out wearing them in Florida, where this sort of thing makes more sense, but this week they both came to the office ( Read more... )

When I was in the US a few years ago I bought two identical pairs of Lane Bryant jeans which fitted my waist, hips, thighs and were the right length. A couple of months ago I had to throw one pair out for large holes in embarrassing places and now the other pair has gone too. So I need replacements. I am size 22, short, round and would not like ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I whinged. Not least about Gap.

Today, I wandered into Gap to soothe my frayed nerves after a visit to the dentist (not one but two injections in order to replace fillings; respect to my dentist, though, he never has to scrape me off the ceiling. He's a pro.) ... the shop is just around the block from the dental surgery and seems to be ( Read more... )

I have not owned a perfect pair of jeans for about a year now. And this is hard going, because I live most of my life in jeans (being one of those lucky people who can wear jeans to work if they wish).

( It was fine for a while. )

With the weather being so shocking, I have resorted to a bit of a sofa surfing.

I came across this link in Times online, about "Tummy Tuck Jeans". There was also a link to I Love Jeans Site which stocks a huge range of jeans, apparently for all shapes and sizes ( Read more... )