You're sitting too much during the day. This happened to my pants when I sat behind a computer all day. When you sit, you're relaxing your gut and everything gets stretched. Once the waist stretches out, they fall a little further down toward your hips to give you the just-took-a-dump-in-my-pants-sag. Just a theory.

Buy the size that fits you in the store. Wear them, wash them, then wear them again. This time without washing them get them altered to fit you.

OP here. Most of my pants do have some stretch in them, maybe 4%. This has also happened to me with wool pants, but not until I was post partum. Maybe PP is right that it i just the shape of my body. I feel like if I go down a size I would have a muffin top and be really uncomfortable. I literally look like a weight loss ad at the end of the day - butt is saggy and I can pull out my waistband a few inches. So where can I buy some lycra-free pants (for professional setting)? Everything seems to have some stretch.

Anonymous wrote:You're definitely buying too big. Go down a size.

Yeah, no. I think some of us (most of us) aren't quite the right shape, so when we buy the right size, or one or two sizes too small, they still stretch out. If you're exactly the right shape for the jeans, then they seem to stay better through the day.

Back in the day, they made jeans out of cotton. Now they all seem to have greater or lesser amounts of spandex, rayon, polyester, added. It's supposed to make them fit better, but it just seems to make them saggy.

Has anyone found all cotton jeans recently? Besides Wranglers?

What is the fiber content of your pants? I wear woven cotton or linen pants, or sometimes a synthetic blend. This never happens to me.

I recommend looking for pants without any stretch fabric (like lycra or spandex), and making sure the fabric is woven, not knit.

You're definitely buying too big. Go down a size.

Just say no to pants.

PP here. I bought one pair of JCrew shorts that were a perfect fit. So, I bought a second pair in a different color that were identical (so I thought) and even tried them on in the store. Bizarrely, when I went to wear them, they are at least an inch or two wider in the waist. Ugh!!!

Anonymous wrote:You're buying them too big. They need to fit really really snug when you first put them on so that they can loosen up to fit properly. Try not to buy pants with stretchy shit like rayon or spandex in them.

Mine are almost too small when I put them on. But within a few hours it's like they're two sizes bigger.

You're buying them too big. They need to fit really really snug when you first put them on so that they can loosen up to fit properly. Try not to buy pants with stretchy shit like rayon or spandex in them.

Lol, I just had a conversation with someone today about this very topic. At first I thought I wasn't buying good quality so I started investing in nicer brands. But the exact same thing happens. When I buy them and when I put them on out of the wash they are almost too tight. Within an hour my butt looks totally saggy. I've started wearing long shirts

Too much stretch in your pants. Try buying cotton jeans (100%)

I have this problem too; seriously annoying. BR and JCrew.

I think the quality has deteriorated.

I am having trouble buying pants for work that fit for longer than a few hours. Most of my pants are from j crew or banana republic. They will fit nicely in the store and then by the end of the day they are sagging and falling off my frame. Do most people buy pants that feel a bit too snug knowing this will happen? I can't remember this happening frequently to me before but I am just back to my pre baby weight so it has been some time since I was buying regular pants.