Thigh/waist discrepancy?

[Veronica]

Yep - can't have butt crack or underwear showing - not when you teach 5th grade.

I wear a lot of my tops tucked in for that reason. Also no bra lines or cleavage - not that I have any, cleavage that is.

Veronica

[GLC1968]

When my mom married my father, her waist was the same size as his thighs.

I wanna know who was in charge of what parts I inherited? How did I get her waist and his thighs on my body? What kind of cruel joke is that??

[indysteel]

When my mom married my father, her waist was the same size as his thighs.

I wanna know who was in charge of what parts I inherited? How did I get her waist and his thighs on my body? What kind of cruel joke is that??

I feel the same way. I otherwise have my mom's smallish build, but my dad's heavier thighs and big butt. I also didn't get her blue eyes. For that matter, I didn't get his dark, almost black, eyes either. Mine are the color of mud.

[limewave]

I must not be doing my measurements right at all . . .
My waist is 33 and my thighs are 22 . . . But all my pants are tight in the thighs. I have BIG thighs, thunderous, strong, ginormous! Hmm, I must be measuring down too far.

[limewave]

Arghh genetics! My mom and I look exactly like these fine ladies (my grandmother, great, great-great, and great-great-great grandmother). Big flabby arms have run in our family for generations. I have to buy a shirt size up just so I can move my arms around.

[jp4995]

I have similiar issues finding jeans (flat stomach, small waist, larger hips and upper thighs) from when I was a size 4 in high school up to my biggest at a size 12/14 a few years ago. My best bet has been mens jeans. I'm in Levi's 541's Slim Straight jeans and I'm a happy camper. I wear a size 34/30 and the jeans sit 2 or so inches below my belly button.

[Selkie]

This is one of the reasons that I love skirts---I don't wear hose and I wear them w/loafers to work (boots in the winter). Forget about finding pants that fit well. I have to buy petites but they are too short in the inseam and usually, my thighs are too muscular so the legs are tight. I end up having to pin the waist regardless.

GLC - If you are like me, you lose weight from everywhere but your bum and thighs first. First to go on me are my already small bosoms! Only when I'm on the low side of my "training" weight do my thighs and bum lose the fat. So be patient and I expect you will notice your thighs decreasing some as you drop fat.

[shootingstar]

Presumably, people sit down in a chair to measure their thighs? I do. And sit so that thighs hang over edge of chair.

Never thought about any relationship between thighs and waist.
Shrimpo here, has 27" waist (with a small bust. Oh well.) and 19" thighs.

Not sure when I had a 26" waist..have at different times in adult life. Can't even remember how many years ago. Would take the measurement then forget the event, because I knew tummy would expand again eventually.

I'm pretty normal because my bone structure is small.

[TsPoet]

My best bet has been mens jeans. I'm in Levi's 541's Slim Straight jeans and I'm a happy camper. I wear a size 34/30 and the jeans sit 2 or so inches below my belly button.

+1 - men's. (in fact, 34/32 - same size!) the waste can gap a little, but they don't fall down.
I wear men's shirts, too - my big shoulders/arms fit better.
Then again, someone at work nominated me for that show "what not to wear" (honestly, I'm not making that up).

[moderncyclista]

I'm built stocky too. It happens to the best of us. Genetics we can do nothing about. I just have to learn to love it. My gf is soooo skinny, I on the other hand am muscley and stocky. My calf muscles compared to hers are huuuuuge. I've never tape measured my thighs, I don't want to be crying face first into a pint of ice-cream later tonight.