There's  two ways to size womens jeans, which is why this is confusing.  One is sizing by 8 (average human girl),10,12, etc... in this case 26 would be massive. Vanity sizing complicates this, for example, in normal sizes I'm an 8, but in vanity sizing I've been anywhere from 2-6 depending on the brand. But 26 is huge no matter how you cut it. The other is by waist size, like mens jeans, in inches. 28 would be normal human girl who also wears an 8. In this case a size 26 inch would be waaaay too small for the hambeast, that's like equal to a size 6. I have a 25 inch waist (above the belly button) and a 35 hip (around the ass) and I wear a size 27 inch, because jeans hang a little below the smallest part of me where my hips start getting bigger. That's because I'm an actual hourglass. If I was straight shaped I'd probably be like a 29-30, and that's also normal for a more ruler shaped girl. Womens waists sound smaller just because we're not straight shaped on the waist, but our hips make up for it.  The waist is measured on the smallest part of the abdomen, usually a couple inches above the belly button where it curves in. Jeans sizes go according to where they'll hang on you, so on me 27 is what just below my belly button measures. My actual waist size is 25, and my actual hip is 35.  I imagine you're confused as fuck now... so this is why we have to spend hours in the dressing rooms trying to figure out what size actually fits. Honestly, just eyeballing it is easier sometimes.