I don't wear dress pants. I wear jeans, skirts or dresses. I don't dislike pants or morally oppose pants or worship at the pantless altar of Gaga, I simply have hips, an ass and a small waist. It's your classic pear according to my measuring tape, so that mean the dreaded gap-in-the-waist syndrome. I've taken pants in for alteration but over time, I just kept pulling out my skirts, dresses and jeans and eventually stopped wearing pants. Call me lazy and cheap.

So when GAP invited me to preview their Premium Pants collection the other day, I went to check them out because I like and own several pairs of their re-engineered jeans. I saw the seven new cuts for women (five for men) and learned that the collection was based on their denim line. That meant that you could, in theory, pick out the exact pant like your jeans and they would fit exactly the same.

That's all well and good, but the fact is, how do they actually fit? I tried on the Really Skinny cropped and the Boyfit pant and was pleasantly surprised. The Really Skinny sucked everything in thanks to the thick, bi-stretch material. Best of all, no waist gap! In fact, I'm going to use another exclamation mark - no waist gap! 

I got the Really Skinny and inadvertently did a fit and wear test on them. I wore them to Stratford this weekend. Thanks to a lack of planning on my part (and lack of transportation thanks to the GO system), I ended up wearing them for two days in a row. (Uh, disclaimer - laundry and shower did happen in between.). I was pleased to discover that the pants retained their shape and washed really well.

And they cost $59.50 - $69.50.

The Premium Pant collection:

Women's Fits
Really Skinny
Boyfit
Slim Cropped
Perfect Trouser
Modern Boot, Curvy, True Straight

Men's Fits
Tailored Khaki
Classic Khaki
Vintage Khaki

Disclaimer: The Really Skinny came courtesy of Gap. The Boy Fit was purchased by me.

[Photo credit: GAP]