I love these so much! I read the reviews and I'm already familiar with teeki, so I knew what to expect. I am usually a medium or 6 and I have a 28" waist, I purchased a size SMALL and they are perfect! Any tighter and they would stretch too thin and any bigger they'd slide down. Took a star off for the loosenes of the waist band. Beautiful print, perfect light weight fabric. They had me at mermaid fairy queen!!!