Are beige trousers that bad?

spider veins....you lucky thing.....mine are python veins......have had them since late teens so its always trousers or darkish tights , long skirts used to look good but the older I got I found that an overlong skirt gave me that 'Miss Marple' look!

M & S Indigo range longish tunic/dress with short sleeves
Having bought some clothes from the Indigo range last year, I was annoyed to find that M&S no longer do them.
Did they ask the customers first?

Today I wore beige linen trousers with a white and navy striped linen top.

Today I have been mainly wearing a blue/grey River Island shift from Age UK (£4). I live in cotton/linen frocks when the sun shines - just throw them on, accessorise with sandals and earrings and voila, sorted for the day. With, as anno rightly says, a bit of ventilation for the nether regions.

Jalima do they ever ask us apart from silly surveys. I offered to tell them. never heard back!

I loved the Indigo range too. Why on earth have they discontinued it?

So that they can replace it with lots more of those styles that will never go out of fashion, because they’ve never been in.

Oh no.... I didn't know the Indigo range had been discontinued. I always bought it in sales and at the Outlet store.

It’s not the colour beige that makes them ‘old lady’ it’s the style and fit. I have beige chino trousers and linen trousers which I love and look great with bright tops. Would hate to just wear black/brown/blue trousers only.

It depends on what shape you want your clothes to make you look. I agree with Lynnng.
I am now short and tubby and , despite that I once had good looking legs , I now don't want the appearance of what my daughter in law described as "little legs hanging down".

It's the silhouette thing!

yes lyng I wouldn't want just dark trousers either.

I am currently wearing violet cotton trousers with a yellow and blue top. As you may conclude, I too do not want to live in dark trousers.

Beige trousers would have been a blessing today. I was wearing white trousers, and spilled quite a bit of a cup of coffee all down me. So had to sponge them in the hospital loo, and sit steaming gently for three hours until I got home. Not a good look. Bye the way, a banner has appeared at the bottom of my screen saying "Discover what NOT to wear over 50" !!

Auntieflo

Hope the coffee wasn't hot!
I would like some white trousers but the thought of shopping fills me with inertia.
Dark trousers don't seem right when the sun is blazing

I like the sound of violet trousers ...

I think that colours are not ageing but what is sometimes ageing is tight clothes.
There are some ladies of any age who can wear a tight teeshirt and tight leggings and look elegant.

so do we go tight or not? Uncertain now.

Well I wear both - yesterday I had on wide leg trousers and today I am wearing 3/4 leggings.
And tomorrow I will probably wear a dress.
It's more fun to wear different styles - actually when I am home and in for the day I wear trackie bottoms and a t-shirt.
(But non of these clothes are ever in beige because I just don't like the colour!!)

Jalima1108, yes, the coffee was hot. Ouch, but I was a big brave girl?? and didn't yell, too much.

Actually i think leggings, even with a loose top don't look good on larger ladies. Sorry. Looks like a lollipop or a ball on a stick from the side. Tall slim women of any age can get away with it. They are very lucky.

I bought some white trousers (well, linen crops) a few weeks ago jalima.
But I haven’t dared to wear them yet.
I don’t think I’m a white trousers sort of person! Cream, beige, natural, stone, neutral, pale grey - yes. But white somehow seems more ....... I don’t know ....... more noticeable?

I know what you mean mostly harmless - I only wear my white 3/4 trousers - with a smart, black top - when I am on holiday!

Yes,I bought some white flat shoes from Hotter -they are really comfortable in spite of my wide feet. But Ive hardly worn them because they seem a bit, well, Essex girl, if you know what I mean. (Apologies to anyone from Essex!)
I do have white linen trousers but hardly wear those as they show every mark (as well as what I am wearing underneath!) So my cream (NOT beige!) trousers are much more practical.
I do have some patterned coloured cotton summer trousers too but they are harder to match up with tops.

I live in white/natural/navy/black linen or linen mix trousers but find that white goes best with most of my tops and linen shirts.
Nude (big) knickers (TMI) are essential and I love them.

On the subject of light trousers being see through, I was talking to someone I know in Sainsburys and she was giving it the 'big I am' as usual. But I had the last laugh because as she walked away you could see plainly through her white trousers that she was wearing white knickers with little blue flowers on them!