Ok, I hate jeans shopping at the best of times. This isn't the best of times!
I'm usually a 6/8 in skirts, or 8/10 in jeans. BUT I'm curvy - I have (had?!) a small waist and bigger bust and hips/thighs, definitely an hourglass figure. So normally I buy bootcut jeans, occasionally straight leg if stretchy. Even so, most jeans are too tight on the hips/thighs (if I can get them up that far) and then gape massively at the waist. Going up a size isn't an option because they then fall down.
So I'm looking for a pair of maternity jeans, preferably bootcut, preferably underbump or if overbump, with a jersey panel (hate anything across my stomach), WITH STRETCH!, and made for women who were curvy before they got their new curves... Do any of you have any recommendations? I'm about 5'4" so wide legs make me look really short and dumpy. To give you some idea, all the Next stuff is too straight up and down for me, ditto TopShop, ditto M&S. Current pre-pg jeans are Gap, Diesel, and Levi's bootcut. The pre-pg pair I'm still wearing are size 10 Principles straight-leg. I reckon I have about a week's worth of wear left in them. None of the stores near me stock maternity ranges so it looks like I'll probably have to order online, or drive out of London (bizarre - like there are no pregnant women in London?!).
Please please help - if you're slim but curvy, where on earth have you found maternity jeans to fit? I think I'm just a really unfashionable shape
I'm usually a 6/8 in skirts, or 8/10 in jeans. BUT I'm curvy - I have (had?!) a small waist and bigger bust and hips/thighs, definitely an hourglass figure. So normally I buy bootcut jeans, occasionally straight leg if stretchy. Even so, most jeans are too tight on the hips/thighs (if I can get them up that far) and then gape massively at the waist. Going up a size isn't an option because they then fall down.
So I'm looking for a pair of maternity jeans, preferably bootcut, preferably underbump or if overbump, with a jersey panel (hate anything across my stomach), WITH STRETCH!, and made for women who were curvy before they got their new curves... Do any of you have any recommendations? I'm about 5'4" so wide legs make me look really short and dumpy. To give you some idea, all the Next stuff is too straight up and down for me, ditto TopShop, ditto M&S. Current pre-pg jeans are Gap, Diesel, and Levi's bootcut. The pre-pg pair I'm still wearing are size 10 Principles straight-leg. I reckon I have about a week's worth of wear left in them. None of the stores near me stock maternity ranges so it looks like I'll probably have to order online, or drive out of London (bizarre - like there are no pregnant women in London?!).
Please please help - if you're slim but curvy, where on earth have you found maternity jeans to fit? I think I'm just a really unfashionable shape
Nearest is apparently Brent Cross - ooh, about 1-1.5 hours drive from us in SE London! So I guess I'll have to go to one when I next visit my parents, unless anyone knows if I was told porkies.
The one by Marble Arch is tiny though - I tried to get maternity tights there and they'd sold out. They had about 3 racks of clothes, I didn't notice jeans. Think I'm going to have to drag DH off to Bluewater or Lakeside this weekend - hell for both of us, but if I have to suffer, so must he! 
