Hello all....new here. I found this site and thread while looking for holsters for women.
Being an older woman, I have a "H" body type, big boned and not very 'hippy". So I don't wear "fashionably tight jeans or slacks. Especially those with added "hips". On me they jut out like "wings" or jodphurs . Even as a teen, finding clothes that "fit" was a problem (and this when "Twiggy" was the rage)
Although this may sound easy for me to carry a holster made for a man's physique, I can and yet can't. Like most women, I am short waisted.
At present my favorite pistol is a Charter Arms 44 spl. 3" that I bought decades ago. I switched the shorter wooden grips to a pair of Pachmeyers shortly after buying it. My old leather holster was made by my husband but it canted too sharply and didn't flatten against my body very well. So, I am looking at trying to find a suitable outside and/or inside the pants holster. Any tips?
DesertRose - welcome!
I'm with you. "H" body type (with an extra bit of padding on the gut!). I like the JBP Sleeping Dog dual-use holster, which I can carry IWB in jeans, with or without a belt, or OWB on a belt.
I find it easiest to carry it appendix carry IWB when I want to conceal, but since I carry openly most of the time, I can use it OWB. It will even, in a pinch, work IWB but openly, such as when I'm in dress pants.
Good luck.
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