Regarding the jeans - this is my kinds of fit, but you should style them and see how you feel.
Lopsidedness tangent: My mouth is extremely crooked and lopsided (not so apparent when I smile). When I look in the mirror I hardly notice it but in pictures it blares out like there is a spotlight on it. Not sure if it is a way we perceive (right brain, left brain thing) or that over time my brain has learned to compensate for the crookedness in the mirror.

Janet I laughed out loud at your description of the Big Star Jeans "too much high contrast whispering". Isn't that yelling? I do love these jeans on you!

Missey - that's the darn spell correct feature. It thinks WHISKER-ing is whispering and refuses to type whisker uniess you go through multiple contortions.

Shevia, I just had exactly that experience -- saw a photo of myself that appalled me...WHEN exactly did my one eye get so much bigger than the other and how come my nose is so crooked?

Janet, you have a beautiful figure and your body is not strange at all.

Dana, I hear what you are saying and I think you have a point -- as an IT your fit expectations are probably quite different, and reasonably so.

I'd love to see them styled, Janet. I've noticed that the forum tends to struggle as a whole with unstyled K/R items even where the poster has (as you do) really good reason for showing the item that way. I don't know what it is, but it's often useful to see the styled version as well.

Having said that, I like the jeans already.

Janet how do the jeans look on your butt is what I want to know. They are pretty high in the rise, but overall they look really cool with the sneakers.

I definitely look better to myself in a mirror. I have horribly crooked lips, one side of my face is so much stronger than the other. When I see Iphone photos I just diiiiiie. I seem to look better with "real cameras" than phones.

Janet, I so envy and admire your figure - I'm sure that is part of my issue. I feel bad when I am not able to see things as Angie does, with a completely open eye, but at least you know me well enough to get my perspective, and that may be helpful ("if an IT doesn't love it, it's probably perfect for a pretty pear")...

Well, this IT gives these BF's a thumbs up. You've just inspired me to give BF jeans another go now that I've seen how these fit on you--loose, but not baggy.

As for the different opinions, I think it takes time to get used to a jean that falls between the skinny and the baggy look. Your Briana's remind me of the men's-style, straight-legged Levis that I wore in the late 70s. Once those jeans got soft and faded, they were supremely comfortable yet looked so cool the way they just rested at the top of the hip and then skimmed over the body. To my eye, it is the quintessential look of a man's jean on a woman's body--sexy, but more tomboy than bombshell.

Total keep!

Well, the flip side is you see yourself in motion, and we only see a frozen moment in photos.

Interestingly, I gradually filpped from absolutely hating how I looked in photos to preferring my photos to my mirror image. Now I am pretty uncomfortable catching glimpses of myself in reflections around town.

Janet, you have a great figure, there is nothing wrong with it. Pictures help us get an idea of how others see us and can help us in certain ways, such as when trying to lose weight. In other ways, however, they are not 100% as they are in one dimension only.
I love those jeans on you.
Maybe I will try them too, along with the other pair that Angie suggested. I am not tall though, and they will need a lot of folding of the hems. It sounds like I should get both pairs one size down from my regular size.
Just for my own curiosity, what do you think is wrong with the top that you are wearing? It looks great to me and it seems that many people think it's wrong.

Janet, I have never once thought there was anything but bombshell about your figure! You are actually shaped quite a bit like my mother, with that classical female body. She has the same challenge with jeans, actually! (How she and I wound up with such different bone structure I still don't understand.) It continues to amaze me how body shapes can make such a difference in one piece of clothing. But the short torso explains a lot, and why my eye is being puzzled.

IK, I know what you mean about mystery body shapes. I do not know where I got the thighs. My mom had a delicate frame but was very shapely, a classic hourglass until she went into menopause and got a bit of tummy. She never had saddlebags, and neither does my sister. I blame my dad's family.

I never realized just how short my torso is until I joined YLF and started looking at pictures of myself. I could seriously pull my jeans down to where the waistband is hitting my pubic bone and my torso still looks proportionally short. Too bad good spine corrective surgery was not prevalent when I was a kid -- that would have made my spine longer as well as straighter. My sister's youngest daughter and my husband's niece both had spinal surgery to correct their scoliosis, and it made a huge difference -- they're both so tall and straight now! I will need to step up yoga practices as I age to try to counteract the pull of gravity on my already-wonky spine so I don't get even more stooped.

But anyway, back to the jeans. Karymk, I rarely post a rear view of myself because it just ain't pretty -- the spinal thing is even more pronounced in rear views, and I really just try to ignore my backside altogether. It's like my left and right sides belong to two different people. I did take a picture though. I'm pretty meh on the rear view, but it would be at truly miraculous garment to make me love my rear view anyway. I do not understand my husband's insistence that I have a cute butt. But here's a shot if it's helpful.

I love your figure! I did not notice your short torso .... Only gorgeous long legs! And high rise jeans can skew the reality even more. A longer top will change everything! There is something sexy about well endowed thighs .... Makes you look bombshell even in boyfriend jeans :). I wish I had a bit of bombshell in me! I am sure my DH would have loved it lol!

Now to the jeans ... I love the jeans on you! I thought I had replied to this yesterday. Must have been tipsy while typing :D.

Also, I must say, I would not have noticed any crookedness unless you pointed it out. To me it just looks like you're standing with attitude.

I'm chuckling. OK, standing with attitude it is! I'm going with it. May as well put a positive spin on what nature has dealt me.

With IK on the "standing with attitude." And with Mr. Janet on your cute butt. (if that is okay to say).

We are so much harder on ourselves than we are on others.

I think these are great, Janet! You have a lifestyle suited to lots of modern denim silhouettes, and these fit into that denim capsule, imho.

I'm not a big fan of whiskering, either, but given the challenges of jean shopping, I wouldn't let that deter you here. I love the confidence and effortless qualities of BF jeans, and the length and scrunch on these is superb.

I think the rise is perfect, too. It highlights your small waist without quite sitting on the widest portion of your hip. As for your back view --- your DH is observant -- do you know how hard it is to keep a rear as high as yours? I can understand that photos would highlight your spinal curve. Just remember that you are very rarely still in that position and in movement it's not going to be easy to see.