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The fit is perfect, and it looks it. I'm very fit but I'm also very big (see details below). It often is the case that even if pants or leggings fit me well, they make me look too fat to wear such things. The final verdict is made by the superficial designs of the pants. Small plaid, good; big plaid, disaster. Small back pockets, good; no back pockets or other distracting design, catastrophe. Front pattern that draws the eye toward my muscular thighs and big hips--no, just no; I didn't work that hard in the gym only to have my ill-designed jeggings make me look like I regularly dine at the Cheesecake Factory.I chose the Purple Butterfly print just because I thought it looked fun in the picture. Now that I have a few pairs of leggings with various prints I can say why this was a happy accident. The back pockets are small and placed low and closer to the center line. In the front, even though some butterflies are on the outer thighs, they are mostly dark and understated. You see them, but the powerful optical illusion created by the white "wear" coloring gives an overall minimizing effect. This is good because plain tights give me an overall MAXIMIZING effect. The Purple Butterfly print converges right in the middle: I don't look thinner than I am, but I also don't look like I'm squeezed into pants that are obscenely small for me. Basically, I feel like they don't distort my shape in any way.Other Pros: The waist band hugs to my skin with no gap; this is the biggest practical advantage over real jeans for me, the waists of which I always have to take in by a couple of inches. The pants stay up and don't sag anywhere. The legs are nice and long, with enough material to bunch in various spots if I want it to. The ankles don't slowly creep up my calves. The waist is a little higher in the back so that I can sit and squat without displaying "clovage" (that's butt cleavage). The color is very denim-y with the white weave under dark blue. The butterflies are very cute.Cons: Although the front waist print goes right to the edge of the real waistband, the back waist print is not so carefully done. In the back the waist print is about an inch lower than the real waist, which makes it look like my pants are sagging and you can see my black underwear. I know that's a style, at least for guys, so it's not the most terrible thing. But I will make some minor adjustments. I prefer mid- and low-rise pants. These are easy to fold down or slouch down to put the waist where I want it. I will probably add a few snaps so that I can fasten the waistband lower to go with a crop top, but also leave it unrolled when I want a smooth fit under a long shirt. Finally, I'm not a fan of synthetics; I wish these had been available in a cotton/spandex blend so that I could wear them in warmer weather. If this company starts making them I will buy them in a heartbeat.If you look at my other reviews you'll see that I've been buying jeggings and fake jeans. Because I found it so helpful when other reviewers provided their measurements and their usual pants sizes, I do the same. I'm very curvy, 5'8", thigh 22" at widest, hips 38", waist 29". My situation is a little bit unique, in that I have genetically "big bones": very wide hips, very wide shoulders. I also lift very heavy weights, cycle, run, and do step aerobics, so I have added muscle mass. Put those together and you get a substantial woman who is very difficult to fit into off-the-rack clothing. And I've recently had an extended illness, so now I've also put on a few pounds of fat, which means that I outgrew all the jeans that I painfully collected through many hours of shopping over several years and then more painfully altered to fit me. Basically, yoga pants and leggings are my "fat pants". At first I thought that this would be temporary, so I was pretty much willing to buy any old thing, because otherwise I literally have nothing to wear outside the house.However, after trying a few different brands of fake jeans and jeggings, I think I might change my mind. I have always lived in denim jeans. But even at my most fit wearing my most comfy jeans, I had to admit that they were a little difficult to wear.I wouldn't wear these leggings on a hike through blackberry brambles, as they won't offer any protection from thorns. I can't sit on the brick hearth to clean the fireplace because the brick will snag them. But for a semi-casual restaurant, they are perfect; I can even ride my bike 10 miles to get there, yet not look I'm dressed for the gym. That's pretty awesome.In sum, I'm glad I took the $14 risk on these leggings. I figured that even if I couldn't wear them out to dinner, they'd be perfectly fine for working out. I'm surprised and thrilled that they are good for almost everything I want to do. You should try a pair! Just pay attention to the particular optical illusion that your body needs, or be prepared to use fabric paint to adjust the illusion if it doesn't work on you.
