I came across this blog piece which is quite good — especially like the humour if you scroll down the piece: http://dressedtoat.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/capri-pants-friend-or-foe/ My biggest problemwith 7 / 8ths is that I recall my mother wearing some shorter, slimmer
leg trousers in the 70s and my sister and I told her she looked like a
carrot.