Jeans conundrum

I bought this pair of jeans a few months ago, as my other pair had some holes and were looking increasingly shabby (yes it's true.  I typically only have 1-2 pairs of jeans at any one time.  Maybe that makes me a freak).  

The store I buy my jeans at recently changed their sizing to what I think is an unreasonably complicated system for picking out pants.  First you pick a color that you fall under (yellow, red or blue depending on shape), then you figure out your number (not a size, but a number from 1-8) and then length (petite, average, tall).  These factors are all supposed to come together to put you in jeans that fit you better than any jeans you've ever bought before.  It's very complex.  In fact, you can't even buy the pants for the first time without help from a sales associate to explain the system and give you an idea of where to start (believe me, I tried.  I stood staring at the wall o' jeans for 20 minutes looking like an idiot before I finally asked for help).  And now they're switching their other pants to this system, but it's still not like you find your combination and that's that.  Different pants will still fit differently so you have to figure it out for every style you want to buy.  PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HOW THIS IS A BETTER SYSTEM THAN REGULAR SIZES.  PLEASE.



Anyway, I found jeans, they fit the way I wanted them to, and I loved the color.  They were a little long, but it is not my fault that there's apparently 5 inches of difference between "average" and "petite" and if I have to choose between pants dragging on the floor and pants halfway up my ankle, I choose the floor.


The next number down (remember - not size, NUMBER.  I still don't get it) in these pants made me feel like a stuffed sausage, and that's not how you want to feel in jeans (or anything except sausage casing, I imagine).  So I made my purchase and went about my business.

Here's the problem.  Within about 4 hours of wearing these jeans out of the dryer, I look like I'm wearing a potato sack because they have stretched out so much.  It's very annoying.  I've been dealing with it, but it seems unreasonable that my choices were "too tight to wear in public" and "stretched out so far you look like you can't buy pants".


Yesterday I went shopping after work, and purchased another pair of jeans in the lower number.  I still think they're too tight (though Toni claims that isn't the case) and I'm paranoid that they won't stretch like the others.  For the next few days, at any rate, I'm going to be wearing them strictly around my apartment and doing lots of squats and lunges to see how they come along.


Anyway, I'm hoping that the new jeans will end up being perfect, but really I'm still irritated that I have to do crazy mathematical equations to buy freaking pants!  It should not be that hard!