You voted on the best in jeans and shapewear for our 2011 Readers' Choice Awards for the Women's Fashion site. This year you'll see some famliiar brands and some new names you will want to find out more about.
1. Best Jeans: Not Your Daughter's Jeans
You decided that Not Your Daughter's Jeans were the very best overall jeans. This maker of slimming jeans is beloved for comfort and style, it also utilizes lift/tuck" features to make the tummy and butt look better.
2. Best Cheap Jeans: Gap
This year you decided that Gap's jeans were a great value: they make premium denim that retails for less than $70. Gap was founded in 1969 for the simple reason that founder Don Fisher couldn't find a pair of jeans that fit. Now the entire Gap company has more than 3,000 stores in 80 countries.
3. Best Pricey Jeans: James Jeans
Best jeans over $100? You decided that title belonged to James Jeans, a Los Angeles-based jeans company founded by a husband and wife duo who strive to create a perfect fit scenario with the jean (the waistband is contoured to be higher in the front and lower in the back to avoid muffin top.)
4. Best Slimming Jeans: Not Your Daughter's Jeans
Hands-down the favorite for making you look skinnier in jeans was Not Your Daughter's Jeans.
5. Best Jeans for Over 40: Not Your Daughter's Jeans
Another win for Not Your Daughter's Jeans, you thought this brand had the best fit and styling for women over 40.
6. Best Skinny Jeans: J Brand
You voted jeansmaker J Brand as your favorite skinny jeans. A premium denim company founded in 2004 that emphasizes fit and sexy styles. J Brand was largely behind the skinny jean craze, introducing the dark wash skinny jean to drive that trend.
7. Best Shapewear: Spanx
Your favorite shapewear? Spanx, not surprisingly. We have all come to love the beauty of looking skinnier with the help of Spanx. What started out 10 years ago as an idea for footless pantyhose has grown into an iconic shapewear brand encompassing everything from slips to maternity shapers.
8. Best Camisole Shaper: Miraclesuit
You voted the best of cami shapers as Miraclesuit, a line of extra firm shapewear promises you to look 10 lbs. lighter in 10 seconds.
9. Best Shaping Brief: Miraclesuit
The best shaping brief award also went to Miraclesuit.
