Make sure you're measuring next to skin, not over clothing! Find how high on your waist or hips you like to wear your jeans and measure from there. Waist: Keep tape measure comfortably loose as you ...

Clearly, modern fashion has a fit problem. And while it does affect men, whose shirts and jeans rarely bear honest measurements, it’s a much more sweeping issue for women—not just because we ...

Michael Murtaugh/NYT Wirecutter These nostalgic ’90s jeans have the widest leg of our picks—measuring 12 inches at the thigh and tapering to 9 inches at the cuff—but they’re more relaxed ...