I’m no curvy woman, but I’ll tell you what carhartt work pants are extremely dependable.

Not Your Daughter’s Jeans NYDJ

Try Univeresal Standard and Dovetail workwear

I bought into the idea that I needed stretch denim for my bigger butt and legs but those jeans just don’t last. Anything with elastane is designed to wear out within the year. 100% cotton rigid denim is more popular than it used to be and increasingly you can find it cut for curvy women. Levi’s etc have it but different brands will work for different physiques.

Your figure has zero to do with longevity, so remove that metric from your brain. The #1 metric of jean longevity is the weight of the denim and the material being 100% denim. What BIFL jeans? Get the heaviest weight jeans you can find. As a guide, most Levi's jeans are 10-12oz/yard in terms of fabric weight. You want to look as far north of that as you can find. There are even some 30 to 40 ounces jeans that will stand up by themselves. Another option is double knee jeans since these are work jeans.

The downside is heavy jeans are hotter, so if this is an issue...you have to pick which side of the seesaw you want to play on.

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I switched to deluth for my work and casual jeans.

I get about two years out of Carhartt, deluth seems to be holding up longer so far. I also like the fit better.

Totally just a preference.

Those fir terribly unfortunately, I have to go up like 5 or 6 sizes for them to fit my legs and then the waist is too big to be taken in

It has nothing to do with longevity but I need them to fit which is why I mentioned it, I already have an incredibly hard time finding jeans at all.

I’ll looks for that in jeans though, im always cold so fine with being warmer

Dovetail looks promising, thank you!

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

I have checked 1,129,418,217 comments, and only 221,081 of them were in alphabetical order.

Is this what BIFL is now? Jeans for obese people?

Lmao I’m not anywhere near obese so not sure where you got that

Fit, especially for females, is a you guessing game. Curvy is not a metric. Heck, even a legit Size 16 is not a metric as many brands don't conform. So for fit, good luck is all I can say. You should know that oz/yard is the metric to look for....brand don't mean shit...as long as you can find/afford jeans in a heavy weight made by Whogivesashit and they fit, you are good.

And for mens, its real easy as 34x34 in 90% of cases is true. Reason #884 when men have it easy. :)

Idk, curvy jeans are usually formulated to have a small waist and larger give in the hip. For me, there's a huge difference in fit between those styled "curvy" and regular jeans.

Wtf?

Unfortunately, I've only found jeans that need to be replaced after about 365 wears. American Eagle works well for curvy physique. They have a wide range of sizes and they sell different lengths as well.

Everlane jeans fit me well

Avoid Boden jeans. They're pretty but you'll have a serious waist gap

I love the fit of the AE jeans just the thighs wear out so fast

Fit wise, I’ve had good luck with Madewell’s curvy line. Shipping/returns are free too if you’re not near a store.

I have some Levi’s as well and they are a thicker denim. But I always have to size up to get them over my legs/bum and the waist is always big then.

I had a pair of US jeans and they ripped (one of the belt loops came off and took a part of the waist of the jean with it) within a month.

Exactly. I'm a mid-size/plus-size woman (size 14 jean, almost always) but I have a big belly, smaller hips/butt, and very skinny calves (compared to the rest of me... I look like a bowling ball on sticks) so my normal size in curvy is too small in the waist and way too large everywhere else.

When you first get them, you can apply iron on jean patches to the inside of the pant leg on the inner thigh. I'm doing that to a friend's pair now.

For me, I just buy new ones online for $40. 2 pairs, purchased every other year.

This is useful. Everlane fits me well and I was considering some Bodens. I will rethink that.

If that’s the issue, I wonder if it would be worth having a larger pair of jeans taken in at the waist

Edit: I don’t l know if I’m curvy enough to weigh in, but I did always have problems with gapping in the back before I started to consistently wear the same leather belt. It has actually molded to my body. It is no longer a flat strip of leather. My pants feel like they fit much better, and I think it’s the result of finally getting a good quality belt that I’ve worn enough to break in.

Omg I never knew that’s what NYDJ stood for. TIL!!

I’ve had success with Levi’s Gold Label.

I can’t find deluth- do you mean Duluth Trading?

Yep! Sorry.

Ha! No worries- Thanks

I think that's mainly cause curvy is different to what people seem to want it to mean..

Curvy isn't a nice word for fat, its literally for women who are curvy which is so far from being fat, I'm not even saying this to be a dick or anything but it seems like the word is always used wrongly.