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The trouble with buying pants online is that many of the size charts bear almost no relationship to the actual size of the pants. My current best-fitting pants are clearly too large for me, but the next size down (if I trust the size chart) is three inches smaller than my actual waist.
The trouble with buying pants anywhere else but online is that Lane Bryant stopped stocking tall pants. Plenty of clothing stores stock up to my size in regular-height pants, but not in talls.
The trouble with trying on regular-height pants in the store, and then ordering the corresponding tall size online, is that I'm long-waisted rather than long-legged, and that tends to throw off the whole fit.
Companies that make pants! I am not asking you to flatter me. I am not asking you to deceive me regarding the width of my waist. I am asking to be able to use a tape measure to determine which size of pants I ought to buy!
The trouble with buying pants anywhere else but online is that Lane Bryant stopped stocking tall pants. Plenty of clothing stores stock up to my size in regular-height pants, but not in talls.
The trouble with trying on regular-height pants in the store, and then ordering the corresponding tall size online, is that I'm long-waisted rather than long-legged, and that tends to throw off the whole fit.
Companies that make pants! I am not asking you to flatter me. I am not asking you to deceive me regarding the width of my waist. I am asking to be able to use a tape measure to determine which size of pants I ought to buy!