Stilly, it's been my experience that even misses' cuts don't always have hips. I think what the manufacturers like to do is make a bunch of the same item and just put different size tags in them, and different makers' names. Thus, the size 8 jeans you try on at the Gap may be the size 7 hanging on the rack at another store.

Gamine, perhaps we are simply addressing the concept of each person being his/her own worst critic.