A couple of weeks ago we supposed to have customers in the office for the whole week and were asked to dress business casual (no jeans). To my horror I realized that my non-jeans pants collection is dismal: I have one grey wide leg pair - that's it!. How I am to survive the whole week? Fortunately the customer visit was canceled but it got me thinking that I have to get a pair of black pants.
Now finding pants that fit me is not a small undertaking for me. I think I have the worst figure for pants fitting because I carry my weight in my thighs: usually if they fit well in the hips they are too tight in thighs. Wide leg trousers are the easiest for me to fit as they are roomier in thighs but my lifestyle requires trousers I can wear with flats and low heels.
I ordered 3 pairs of pants from BR and 3 from Gap. Sloan and Logan straight legs from BR were not a good fit (all wrinkled in front) but Martin skinnies were a possibility. Gap True straight looked fine in the mirror but after seeing the pictures I think they are the wrong fit. Gap Real skinnies are tighter in the thighs that Martins and Gap Seamed Straight do not fit right.
All this pants fitting is so frustrating I want to crawl under the rock and cry and wear skirts and dresses exclusively ...
Anyway I need to decide if Martin skinnies are worth keeping or not. I have grey Martin skinnies from last year and I noticed that I feel pretty sensitive about the look from behind in them: I do not like to wear them with any top which does not cover my butt completely. Now is this going to be a problem with black ones as well? Could I wear black ones with a normal top length?
Picture 1-3 are black Martin (new) and #4 is my last year grey Martin for comparison. I thing grey ones fit more snugly so maybe black ones would be OK... Of course I am not going to tuck in with these pants: just wanted to show how they fit.
Please help me decide if I should keep them - Yay for keeping and Nay for returning!

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