Eleanore Winslow Your Pants Aren't the Problem These 7 Rise Mistakes Are

For years I told women to size up, size down, or try a different brand. I was wrong almost every time about what was actually causing the problem. After fitting hundreds of women over sixty, the pattern became obvious. It was almost never the size. It was the rise, the distance from the waistband down to the crotch seam, and nobody had ever explained that rise was even a variable worth thinking about. In this one I walk through the seven rise mistakes I saw constantly in real fittings, wearing a rise built for the wrong torso length, a mid rise that gaps at the back the moment you sit down, a low rise that folds fabric above the waistband, not accounting for how rise interacts with what you tuck into it, chasing a trending rise instead of your own proportion, misjudging where your natural waist actually sits, and only ever testing a rise standing instead of seated. None of these mistakes have anything to do with your body being the problem. I also cover the three broad rise categories most ready to wear trousers fall into, how fabric stretch changes the way a rise actually behaves on your body, and a simple tape measure test you can do tonight that changes how you shop for trousers permanently. #StyleAfter60 #FitTips #TrousersFit