Honestly, they are not that bad.
I normally wear a 14 and I am 5'6.
I ordered the xl tall. I'm so glad I went with tall because anything less would have been too short. I have not tried to wash yet( hopefully they don't draw up any). The material does look cheap and something I haven't seen mentioned but the front pockets are sewn shut with two rows of stitching, I don't like not having use of my front pockets but it does keep all the bulging from gut flat in a extremely comfortable way but I can't tell that there is any butt lift but of course I don't have a lot back there to lift, lol.
The price point on these are definitely too high though. Shipping took about three weeks for me and I couldn't read the tracking info because it was in Chinese writing.