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Photos added. Ribcage/ultra high rise jeans

anne

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Hi all, I've bought hardly anything this year, and haven't been very active here on YLF, but wanted to get your opinion on my trying out ultra high rise jeans and also your experience in them, for those that have tried them (I know nuancedream has some, not sure of others)

I've been trying our Levis ribcase jeans in a few styles and also a much cheaper Australian brand (ribcage wide legs seem sold out in Aust)

Questions

Which one looks best/ are any worth getting at all? I have an opinion but I'll hold that now? Do NOT take into account length- I can hem.
Is it worth paying the extra cost to get Levi jeans?
If you have ribcage jeans what's been your experience with them

Photos shortly...

ETA Not so shortly - trying to work out how to convert my photos which are heic images. Anyway you can still answer 2 and 3!

ETA - have now posted photos further down the thread.

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Latest reply was from Jenni NZ

anne

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Oh dear, this is far too technical to cope with at 10:50pm!

I'll see if I can manage to upload the photos tomorrow

Still interested to hear your answers to 2 and 3.

rachylou

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Ok. Shall await!

nuancedream

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Nice to see you, posting on the forum, Anne! I have the Levi's ribcage wide leg jeans and really like them. Fortunately, i was able to get the last pair in my size at Nordstrom on sale. They are 100% cotton and comfortable. Not a fan of real stretchy jeans. They run long so if you tend to be long waisted with shorter legs, you will need to hem them a bit. My jeans have already become a three-season workhorse item.

Stagiaire Fash

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On the photos—if you can open them on your phone or computer, you can take a screenshot & upload that.

chewyspaghetti

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I just brought a very high waist denim short, and really like them.
Hi Anne!!!, by the way...
I usually stay away from Levi because the waist tends to be too narrow for me, but I think they're ok quality.

Style Fan

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I love ultra-high-rise jeans. I did try on the Levis ribcage wide-legged ones a few years ago but decided against them. I can't remember why.

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

I can't see the pics, but your long torso will like this look, Anne. That's my guess!

cjh

(website)

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A way to convert your photos might be to email them to yourself and then save those images. Also for future, change the settings on your camera/phone to save as jpegs. I assume you’re taking pictures with your phone?

rebekahphoto

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this converter is quick if you still are looking for a way:
https://cloudconvert.com/heic-to-jpg

anne

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OK I now have photos!

1. Just so you can see the shape of my legs

2. Ribcage straight ankles

3. Ribcage bootcut

4.Cotton on Long wide leg

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anne

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Thanks Rachy - wait over now!

Thanks for the kind words Nuancedream and for giving me some feedback on them - all very positive. I am do have short legs, so hemming jeans is pretty normal for me!

FI - thanks for the screenshot/ snapshot idea. I've done that now, in combination with emailing them to a computer, which I'd already tried

Hi Chewy Spaghetti!! glad to hear your high waist shorts work well and that Levi seems good quality.

Thanks cjh I have now changed my phone settings so that it shouldn't use HEIC (something I'd never heard of until yesterday - my settings must have just automatically switched recently - only the latest images are in that format)

Rebeckahphoto I didn't see you post until after I had loaded the photos but it would have been handy. Thanks for the recommendation!

Sally

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I dont have ribcage jeans

(I think my body would be too short to wear those type of jeans)

but I like the dark ones the best I think. They all look good to my eye. I have had good experiences with levis. How much more expensive are they? I saw some in a dept store here today for about $139. I have found cheaper levis in JustJeans shops or outlets as well.

anne

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Thanks Sally!
Sally, I think the ribcage jeans are $149 whether at just jeans, David jones or Myer. The white ones are from Cotton on but I actually would not buy them in white. They are about $60.
Angie, I would love to read your feedback now the photos are up

anne

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Yeah, Sally and Angie, I do have a very long torso. Long waist and long rise.

Bijou

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Love #3 on you, a gorgeous fit and I think the dark wash looks very smart, something to wear to work on dress down Fridays (if you have them).

Stagiaire Fash

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The straight legs, with lighter blue, look best to me, but in general I’m mystified. In theory these should all show off your lovely shape and possibly fool the eye into thinking your legs are longer. In reality, your legs and figure look best in the fitted black. Maybe the fact of narrower legs makes them look longer?

rachylou

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I like them all, but like the white best - the wide leg.

anne

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Looks like one vote for each so far!

FI - just thought I'd show you the other leg photo I took - with my legs not so far apart - not so long looking in that photo I suspect!

I hear you on the first look, but it's hard to replicate a cami and leggings look with actual clothes, and also I'm hoping to move away from skinnies for jeans - time for a change there.

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Jenni NZ

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They all look like they are pulling to me?See those creases out from the zip?
The white ones do it the most, then the pale wash, then the dark. Thus I think the dark fit and look best of the 3, but wonder if you could find a pair that doesn’t pull.
Also it’s hard to tell how they will really look when the length is so off, really need pinning to see.
I do like the dark wash best for sure of the 3.

Jenni NZ

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Oh and regarding your other questions: think I have only had one pair of Levi’s in my life, if at all, and it was decades ago. They lasted well on my teenagers in the mid 2000s.
And I am not sure that my jeans have ever been that high waisted. Does that pulling I can see mean the rise is too high?

anne

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Thanks Jenni - I hadn't even noticed the pulling! I want to try on all the jeans I already have to see if they pull now!

anne

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Another factor - reviews I have read say that you should size down, as they stretch.

Stagiaire Fash

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I hear you on being over skinnies. Didn’t mean to suggest them, but can see how my comment reads that way.

How do flares that are more fitted in the seat & thighs work for you?

anne

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Hi FI Thanks for returning to the thread.- Not sure about more fitted flares - these were the only styles available with the ultra high waist

Jenni - I really wanted jeans that are at my actual waist. My current high rises sort of rest over the tops of my hipbone at the side. I have a very long rise. I think the pulling could be because it was quite tight through the hips (though as said above, apparently they stretch). But I tried on the size above and mostly didn't even bother to take photos, it was so clearly too big (I did in the wide legs - see attached)

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smittie

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I like the white ones best!
I think you can always find something nearly as good for cheaper, but the question is: what is your time worth?
I don’t have experience with the really high waisted Levi’s, but I do have experience with the wedgie jeans. I have them in 100% cotton and they bag out at the knees and become a little looser in the waist. Not too bad.

rebekahphoto

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I like the ribcage strait. they feel very fresh on you

Nice fitting at the hip. you might want to fold up the hems in photo to see how the leg shape is more closely to what it would be after hemmed
the dark pair are a little too bunchy to see how they would hang--but I like the possibility of the dark

(Most pants are typically several inches too long for me too)

anne

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Thanks Smittie and Rebekahphoto

Zaeobi

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I like the white & dark wash jeans.

Another thing I'd recommend is to try sitting & squatting in them, to see how they fit in the rise when you actually try to move in them (make sure to check the back view whilst doing so).

anne

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Hi Zaobi - good points (which I forgot to do!)

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