Ladies:
Take a look at A.P.C. New Cure or Hipster model jeans.
IMO these are the best jeans in the women's market.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 20 June 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Steve Shasta please advise as to jeans that accommodate 5'11' girls with high hip-to-waist ratio.
― quincie, Friday, 20 June 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone told me Joe's Jeans Muses but I'm not sure???
apc jeans are relatively short inseam, right? hudson i think are v long, i haven't tried any myself
― daria-g, Friday, 20 June 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
shasta, please help me with A.P.C. jeans sizing. i tried on the new cure this weekend in a size 29. in levi's or whatever i usually wear a 27. the 29 was too small to even button and just barely made it over my hips. now, looking at their website i see that 30 is the largest size they even offer. is APC trying to tell me that i am a fat?
― bell_labs, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
now everything i'm reading about APC jeans says to go several sizes down from your usually size? what the hell?
― bell_labs, Monday, 23 June 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Guys, my company's CEO sent out an email on Friday saying we can all wear jeans through Labor Day. Woo! And I was about to buy some summer work pants. jeans and $$$ saved.
― sunny successor, Monday, 23 June 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
A.P.C. are true to size. They will shrink if you wash in hot water and machine-dry, so I'd rinse in cool water when you need to clean the garment.
The seat and yoke of most jeans are constructed via using chainstitching to make double-interlock flat seams. This means is that jeans in their native state will give a little in the seat(butt)/lower back. With a pair of A.P.C.s that will last at least 10 years, you should try to find the most snug fit possible because they will "stretch" (ie, due to seam construction as opposed to fabrication components). I would go for the 29 (with effort) and if that's too uncomfortable try the 30. Raw denim is very coarse and stiff at first, it will begin softening immediately with wear.
Many US companies began "vanity sizing" in the 80s, convincing people that they wore a smaller size than what the garment measures out to be (eg, a size 27" garment measures to a true 29"). Some brands (like Levi's) resisted this trend for over a decade until they saw their sales decrease because those brands "didn't fit" the consumer. European and Asian companies do not vanity size which may explain the variance.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Vanity sizing is the worst - size small became size large pretty quickly as everyone stopped exercising and started eating like shit. It's crazy, buy a size small from 1980 and it fits like ... a small. You need to get an XXSmall to get an actual small these days.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link
so APC IS saying i'm a fat oh well at least their voluminous dresses fit.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf is a voluminous dress
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i was using it to mean smock dresses/non-fitted silhouettes
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i thought they were designed to like give your body more volume =P
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j200/alwaysontime6/littlewhitedress.jpg ^this kind of shape
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I really wish dresses cut like that wouldn't invariably look like a potato sack on me. They look so chic and comfy :(
― quincie, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
same here. i suspect its a chest size prob.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
YES that is clearly why i can wear them horray for the 1 dress that looks good on the flat of chest
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
To learn more about vanity sizing, take a tape measure and your favorite jeans and measure the waist and compare to the stated size.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ignorance in this matter is preferred
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i don't want to get even more depressed
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
tho truth is that i do measure my waist. b/c it is for me the best indicator of weight gain reality and when to do something abt it...
p.s. let us pls not start a diiet thread on i love style unless it is a thread abt an all-lobster diet and what restaurants have cute bibs
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yes plz no diet threads
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Or unless it's the "Popular" diet, in which the lunch kit consists of a carrot stick and a cigarette -- and you vomit up the carrot stick.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Pass the lighter, please.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the thing is, jeans don't sit on my waist. the waist is the narrowest part, by definition, right? even the highest cut jeans go just about to my belly button and then the waist is 2-3 inches above that.
but it still pisses me off that a.p.c. makes only up to a 30 waist (by shasta's math, a 28 to vanity sizers)
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean that's kind of ridiculous right?
i get 34 in waist & they are down around my hips by around a weeks worth of wears
but that is my STYLE
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, bell, I agree it seems ridic. I've never even tried on APC jeans but I don't think a Levi's 12 is going to translate so well. (I did try Uniqlo once but since I couldn't even fit into their 14 and I think that was their largest size, uh fuck 'em).
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
lol srsly there's like nothing that's an actual size 30 or size 10 or whatever, it's either vanity sizing or under-sizing or patterned all wrong. so weird. i tend to these days just hold things against my body and guess. sometimes an 8, sometimes a 12 who freakin knows
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
uniqlo jeans fit so weirdly on me - extremely low-riding, like they only went about 2/3 of the way up my ass.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care about the number (witness my posting my jeans size here), I just think it seems extreme for me not to fit into any of the available sizes. Like, I am not a very big person, all things considered? How can I be too big for your line of clothing? Ditto the 30-inch waist etc.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
laurel, aren't uniqlo clothes UK sized? which means a 14 is a US 10...
i think i'm going to take the J brand jeans back, maybe think about tracing them and trying to find a tailor that will make something similar but that fully covers my butt.
― colette, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's necessarily vanity sizing as just.. resetting the median of the range according to the size of the average customer. this blog has some thoughts on it..
― daria-g, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I love you and I am going to read that entire series, just not tonight.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
that blog is 100% wrong btw. trust me.
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
whatevs i am down for the vanity sizing trend please keep it up so i can keep that ass fat
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
where does one get apc jeans anyway (in loldon)
― warmsherry, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Any of you know about the APC New Cure/Very Tight Jeans thing? I'm a 30.5 waist (muscle, big ass, package sticks out), and I decided on a 31 waist since I'm a 31 in other "skinny" fits. Good idea? I read those jean dork messageboards and they always say to size down ... though these jeans I'm buying don't happen to be raw denim.
Anyone know?
― burt_stanton, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
package sticks out
ha.
― ENBB, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
why dont you go to the apc store and try em on burt_stanton
― max, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the new stuff on the website that sells out in a day, and the store in SoHo is always sold out of my size range. I can always just return 'em.
Here's some Levis 514s I sold last year. If the jeans are any tighter it looks like I shoved a grapefruit down the front and I'm wearing some kind-of ass implant like in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/mzing12/Picture025.jpg
― burt_stanton, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
lol burt
― J0rdan S., Friday, 25 July 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
<3
I'm wearing APC's size 31 right now and I'm def not skinny
― baaderonixx, Friday, 25 July 2008 07:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm about to fit into my skinny jeans when i do, i'm going to post pictures and you're all going to love them
― Surmounter, Friday, 25 July 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
;]
― Surmounter, Friday, 25 July 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i just love how much she cares
http://www.dlisted.com/node/27616/images/spl43131_005.jpg
― Surmounter, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
do those other paparazzi really think they're gonna be able to sell photos of her back?
― phil-two, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe if it was j.lo or francois sagat
― phil-two, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
those are quite unflattering, btw.
― lauren, Friday, 8 August 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link