I know I'm not the only one here with the "fits at hip, gapes at waist" problem. Target has a fairly new set of fits and fit 4 (medium rise, curvy through hip/thigh) has been pretty good for me so far. Recently I noticed they've got a lot of choices right now in fit 4. There were flares and bootcuts and cargo pants at my nearest store, and at the closest superstore there were dress pants in a couple different fabrics, and skinny and bootcut jeans in lengths - short, reg, tall. (I tried on some talls and they looked about ~34".)

Unfortunately it doesn't look like all of them are avilable at target.com (especially the talls, sigh) but might be worth checking out if you are looking for pants.