Denim aficionada Amanda Casabianca scoured stores for designer jeans to fit-test them with a group of girlfriends; Casabianca categorized designers jeans as fitting either true to size, running small, or extra small.
Here's what she found:
Fit True To Size (Size 30 = Dress Size 10)
- Abercrombie
- Blue Cult
- Fidelity Denim
- James Jeans
- Joie
- Juicy Couture
- Notify
- Paige Premium
- People's Liberation
- Sacred Blue
- Serfontaine
- Taverniti SO
- True Religion
- Yanuk
- YaYa
Run Small (Size 30 = Dress Size 8)
Run small mainly through the hips, thighs and bottom but could still work on a curvy figure, depending on your proportions:
- 575
- 7 For All Mankind
- AG
- Alice and Olivia
- Antik
- Big Star
- Chip and Pepper
- Citizens of Humanity
- Corleone
- Da Nang
- Diesel
- Edun
- Frankie B
- Habitual
- Joe's Jeans
- Kasil
- L.A.M.B.
- Loomstate
- Lucky
- Miss Sixty
- Paper Denim & Cloth
- People For Peace
- Red Engine
- Rock and Republic
- Rogan
- Salt Works
- Union
- Versace
Run Extra Small (Size 30 = Dress Size 6)
Fit most comfortably on the very tall and slender or petite and slim:
- Bebe
- D and G by Dolce and Gabbana
- Ed Hardy
- Evisu
- Ezra Fitch
- Fornarina
- Grass
- Hudson
- Just Cavalli
- Oligo Tissew
- Pringle
- Reo Starr
- Roberto Cavalli
Jeans pictured are: True Religion Billy Super T in Medium Lovestruck
