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Denim Heads: Best White Jeans?

upsett1_spaghett1

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I wish I could fit Sid Mashburn but I'd have to size up like 4 waist sizes to fit my legs ?
I have a thick waist and huge ass, but thankfully my legs are fairly thin. So buying pants isn't a huge issue if I get the waist size correct and the rise is high enough.

However my upper body is built like a mini fridge so most jackets and shirts have to be quite large to fit me. I feel your pain.
 

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I'm searching for a new pair of off-white/white jeans in a skinny fit. I'm shooting for a leg opening of about 12.5-13 inches. It keeps them pretty skinny, but not skin tight for me.

I've got a pair of off-white jeans from Madewell in their skinny fit with a leg opening of about 13 inches. Unfortunately the rise is a bit too low at 10.25 inches. I've found 10.5 to be okay if they're stretchy, but an 11 inch rise is pretty comfortable for me, especially with less stretch.

I've been searching for another pair to replace them, but I haven't found much. G-star has a pair of white skinny jeans. From what I could find on the measurements the leg opening might be a bit too tight and the rise too low.

From an earlier post in this thread these might fit the bill. Based on the size chart they might be a bit looser than I'm shooting for.

Anyone have any suggestions for something that fits this criteria of the leg opening and rise?
 

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The M7 model would fit the bill for what you're looking for in terms of rise and leg opening. They fit slim (or rather, skinny) below the knee and unless you have thin thighs, they're not going to look as roomy as the measurements might suggest. There's also considerable stretch, so you can easily size down a size compared to what you'd wear in raw denim.

I've bought quite a few things from C.O.F. in the last few months, and I really like everything (shirts and coats as well) Since they don't have fit pics on their site, I did some searching to find some to make decisions on my purchases. Here's some photos I had found for the M7 cut that show how they fit depending on if you size them tight or large :

Tight (size down?) :
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Looser (sized up?):
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As a side note, C.O.F. have some white and "natural" fatigue pants that look pretty good, I'm a bit tempted by them myself.
 

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I'm also on the look for a pair, but I haven't really found any model that tickled my fancy yet. The rise should be high (13" in the front, 17" in the back), good room in the seat and thigh, moderate taper to a hem of around 21-23cm. So far, only Luxire has met those specifications, and I don't really like their ecru denim (it's very thin and un-denimlike).

You can look into naked and famous easy guy.
Luxire has this undyed 12 oz denim that i have been looking at.
 

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Yeah, I was going to mention those. I tried them on in the L.A. store, they're nice, all my normal denim is selvedge, but for these I really didn't care to spend the extra money on what are essentially a novelty pair of pants.
 

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Yeah, I was going to mention those. I tried them on in the L.A. store, they're nice, all my normal denim is selvedge, but for these I really didn't care to spend the extra money on what are essentially a novelty pair of pants.
That's totally fair, I actually really like white pants so it might be worth the extra money for me.
 

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You can look into naked and famous easy guy.
Luxire has this undyed 12 oz denim that i have been looking at.

Thanks for the suggestion. However, at my waist size (32 or 33 inches) both the front rise and the back rise are a couple of inches too low, the thigh too small and the ankle opening much too small.
I'll have to check that Luxire cloth, though – the specs look nice!
 

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Berg & Berg has some natural denim. The rise looks too high for my taste, but they seem nice otherwise

 

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