Where to find pants for wider hips at a decent price?

[my3rdlang]

I am going to start working soon. Finding shirts and blazers are a breeze as I have the typical Chinese upper body, but I couldn't even find 1 in 20 pants cut for my height that are not ill-fitting.

I am having the hardest time finding pants as my hips are very big for my waist by Chinese standards. My waist is 26.5'' & hips are 38.5''. Even a waist size 28'' pants is skin tight on my butt but gape too much at my waist.

A good minority of American & European brands fit me decently, but they cost a few hundred to a few thousand RMB in China.

I have already considered tailoring my pants if I couldn't find decently priced ones that fit.

Any recommendations on where I could find decently fitting pants under RMB 150 will be greatly appreciated

[imron]

I would suggest tailoring, I'm quite tall and it often makes sense for me to get stuff tailored rather than try to find stuff that fits. Tailors are cheap and plenty.

[teaforme]

1. Go to a tailor. You'll finally get that PERFECT pair of pants. If your "tailor vocabulary" is a bit lacking, bring your current favorite pair of pants and point out the features you like about it so the tailor can copy them for you (e.g. pleats/no pleats, pockets, etc). Note that not all tailors are the same, so ask around to see who does good work.

2. If you live in south China or if you plan to take a holiday soon, make a trip to Hong Kong for clothes. American and European clothing brands are reasonably priced there.

3. Where in China do you live? A lot of the bigger cities have export clothing markets. These might be worth hitting up as they have laowai sizes and you can haggle for prices.

[my3rdlang]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I live in Shanghai.

I will be going to HK to process by visa... I guess it's good timing as I will be able to shop during my stay there.