These jeans are my new favorite jeans!! I usually wear a size 10 (or 29, 30" waist;  31" inseam; 5'5" tall), and I ordered a size 11 in these. They are stretchy,  comfortable, & are really cute!
The waist sits just below my navel, and are actually long enough with extra to spare at my ankles! I don't have to worry about plumbers crack when I sit, and they are tapered all the way down the leg so there's no wide gap at the ankles.
When I first put them on,  they looked distressed, but the holes weren't as 'obvious' as I wanted/expected them to be. I mean,  I'm glad I didn't look like a stuffed sausage popping thru the casing,  but if my thighs were thicker, maybe the holes would show more? Anyway, it was a simple fix...i just cut away a few sections of material within each distressed area. I didn't think to take a before pic, but these are how they look after I 'fixed' them.