Customer Reviews L.L.Bean BeanFlex Straight Leg Favorite Fit Jeans in Rinsed

I apologize for using this product -- which I did buy for my wife and now have to return -- as a general gripe about the overall LL Bean women sizing options. My wife in 5' 10". Much of it is in her legs. These "Women's BeanFlex Jeans, Favorite Fit Straight-Leg" were bought in the ONLY tall option: medium tall. They were almost 2" too short! A very disappointing birthday present. 1. Why can't LLBean provide the SAME sizing charts that they do for men: waist inches and inseam inches???? Doing this would pretty much take all of the guess work out of size ordering for women pants. 2. I went to Google for "Tall LL Bean Woman Pants", which came up with a LL Bean link to a pair of LLBean woman's jeans showing: Regular - Medium Tall - and Tall. But if you're logged into the LLBean site and try to search on "Tall Woman Pants", you get a hodgepodge of mostly unless items. That's just wrong that you can do a better search for LL Bean products outside their Web site than inside of it. I'm done with my rant . . . and I'm done trying to buy my wife nice clothes from LL Bean.

I originally ordered a size 6 as suggested by the size chart, but the jeans were too big, so I ordered a 4. The material seems nice enough, and I liked the useful size of the front pockets. The fit seemed all right at first, but after one day the jeans stretched almost a whole size through the hips, rear and rise. I will return them.

I expected these jeans to be flexible and comfortable as advertised but sadly they were not. I can comfortably wear a size 16 in most every brand of pant/jean, sometimes a 14, but I could barely get these on. They were so tight in the legs it was uncomfortable to walk. This seems to me to be a chronic problem with LL Bean jeans-they don't even come close to the size they claim to be. I once owned a pair of super soft jeans from LL Bean and I am constantly hoping they will come back but nothing so far has come close.

I first tried the "Stonewashed" color, which was perfect all around. Thinking I had found my ideal jean, I then Tried "Rinsed" and "Light Indigo". "Rinsed" was somewhat baggier in the hips and thighs, and a whole lot longer, almost 2 inches after washing and drying. "Light Indigo" was perfect in length, but the baggiest of all in hips and thighs. Why do different colors result in different fits? Poor quality control. The whole point in brand loyalty is that you know it will fit. Not true in this case.

fit just fair when tried on After washing very baggy was going to order size 4 but information stated ran small they don't going to go on the shelf