Ladies, I’m on a mission to save us that requisite trip to the tailors after an otherwise-perfect shopping spree. And, finally. Finally, I tell you! I’ve found the answer.

Introducing Petite Legs, a new UK-based line of denim designed exclusively for those 5’2” and under. President, founder, and designer, Samantha Loton, shares our passion for jeans that fit perfect the first time.

1. What inspired your petite-pants line?

As a 5-foot petite girl with an inside leg length of 26 inches and a UK Size 8 body, shopping for jeans would always border on impossible! I would scout the petite sections, find a pair I liked, and they would still be far too long at the leg. I would always have to pay extra for an alteration service, and it frustrated me how I wasn’t of abnormal size, and yet the shops wouldn’t cater for my jeans needs at all. I became aware of petite girls around me with rolled up jean legs and frayed trouser hems from too long trousers dragging along the ground, and realized just how difficult it is for us petites to buy jeans. So, to save myself and other petites from being banished to children’s sections, I created Petite Legs!

2. Tell me about your line. Where are you located?

Petite Legs is located in England; Norwich and Lincoln. Our boutique is currently on eBay, which can be found through our Web site.

3. What are the materials, sizing, designs like?

Currently, Petite Legs stock mainly denim jeans, as I felt buying jeans was the main problem for us petites, as they are hardest to alter. Petite Legs focuses on inside leg length/inseam as the most important factor, and we currently range from 26” leg to 29” — but plan to include smaller sizes. Our jeans are of excellent quality, with stylish and unique designs. We are still a new boutique, so we are working on expanding our selection of designs and sizes, but currently aim to stock to offer something to everyone’s liking. Styles currently include Straight Leg, Boot Cut, Flair, Wide Leg, and Tight Fit. Waist-wise, we range from a UK size 6 to a UK size 16, and are developing our range to include plus-sized petite leg jeans.

4. I see that Petite Legs is an eBay boutique. Will you be selling the line to any US or UK shops?

No, our line is available exclusively to our Petite Legs eBay boutique, with plans to open an online store: www.petitelegs.co.uk.

5. Will you have only denim, or will you also feature trousers?

We intend on expanding our range to include petite trousers as well as denim jeans, and plan on increasing our range of crop trousers.

6. Will you only create pants or will you also have shorts, skirts, etc.?

We plan to expand our whole range, with jeans available in a short-leg length from UK sizes 6 – 18. And if personal demand is there, we hope to stock sizes around this, so please contact us with suggestions! We also have exciting plans to expand to general petite-sized clothing such as shorts and skirts, and possibly upper-body clothing. So, bookmark petitelegs.co.uk and see how Petite Legs develops!

7. What size are you? Which designers do you currently wear? And can you recommend them to my readers?

I am a size 8 with an inside leg length of 26 inches, meaning I always struggle finding jeans to fit! I’ve only ever found one pair of jeans that fit me perfectly at the leg, and these were capri trousers from Gap. I love the style of jeans from Topshop, but I always find them too long at the leg, and have to pay for alterations. Next has a good petite range but, again, I had to get them turned up.

Petite Legs Straight Leg Denim

8. Anything new that you would like to share?

We encourage any advice and suggestions from petite girls, and would like to know what they want to see from Petite Legs. It’s also helpful to know what sizes people are, so I can take this into account when sourcing jeans!

9. Did I miss anything? Anything else you would like my readers to know?

I would like to explain that with Petite Legs jeans, our focus is on the inside leg length being petite, which means you don’t have to be a petite girl to have shorter legs. So we encourage suggestions from larger girls with shorter legs in order to expand our larger waist range.

10. Your smallest UK size is a size 6 (US 4). Any word on when you plan to offer smaller sizes like UK 2 & 4 (US 0 & 2)?

Currently the smallest waist size we offer is size 6 (UK), but we do aim to offer smaller sizes in the near future.

edited by serafina

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