OH! And buy them in the smaller size at the ridiculous price if you can return them. Then try them, determine if they will work, return and stalk. Yes. That is perhaps a tiny bit unethical. Don't tell anyone what an awful shopper I am.

K.P, that is a good plan! To update, I returned these in a fit of pique. Will stalk the smaller size but not wasting more mental time on them until then. Thank you all for putting up with this struggle TWICE!

Sorry this isn't working out for you Una! I hope the pajama jeans will tide your Unusual Denim itch.

Your post sent me to randomly check Yoox today, where I had been idly stalking the jeans ... where I was amazed to exactly one pair of black (I think waxed) R13 x-over jeans pop up in my size! We'll see what happens ...

Fingers crossed for you. I'm the only misfit (literally) here!

Oh, I definitely like the faded black way way better than blue.

... probably explains the unexplained plethora of black jeans I have...