Skinny jeans

"Skinny jeans - why shouldn't you?" Is'nt that a bit of a sexist comment from GNHQ?

Plenty of older women look great in skinny jeans (have made it my life quest to check them out), if you feel good in them, go for it (please).

I have a pair of skinny and a pair of straight jeans I love, bought from the same shop at different times and both virtually the same fitting! I wear them with ankle boots (studded biker ones) in the winter and flat ballet shoes when it is warmer. I've had them a couple of years but I have just bought a pair of wide legged palazzo trousers in a floaty material and my affections have shifted. Maybe I'll go back to the jeans in the winter

Marks & Spencer Twiggy jeggings brilliant; much more comfortable than skinny jeans but look virtually the same.

I agree roses. I have a fear of looking like Max Wall

best makes by far I have found as comfortable and looking good
are Firetrap and bizarrely H&M
Mand S jeans are not at all comfortable
I do wear boots with my 'skinnies' but they are knee-high so I don't look like Max Wall.

if you are tall and slim you can wear any sort of trousers/jeans
at 5 foot and a bit but a size 12 but with slim legs I look awful in bootleg/flared/straight jeans - especially those that sit on the hips (which is a whole new topic as I have to wear a belt since their idea of sitting on the hips means the jeans are sitting on my waist) and that is before I have to shorten the legs.
So I love skinny jeans and tops of all types (I am a 14 up top) and wear them mostly with ballerinas or flats - never heels as I look ridiculous.

I think you are right Katy, my daughter wears ballet flats with hers but I have seen all sorts of clumpy shoes/ boots worn with them and they look comical.

Some people end up looking Max Wall. you have to be careful, even for young ones.

I never seem to have the right shoes to go with things either, especialy as I tend to live in either Crocs, trainers or Ugg boots.

I would love to wear skinny jeans but I never know whether I look quite right in them or what shoes to wear with them. My DD had some skinnies on the other day, I haven't seen her in them before but she is in the process of losing weight and they suited her. I asked whether she thought I could wear some and she said 'mum you are taller and slimmer than me, they would look great'. Bless her. The trouble is shoes. I love to see skinny jeans with ballet pumps but I can't wear those because of my horrible bunions. DD's jeans were from Tesco and they looked great. She said they are stretchy and comfy. I might try a pair.

OK if shape is OK, often wondered how you guys get them on.
Stiletto heels on decking a no-brainer, damage caused to wooden floors runs
into millions ... funny how editors fail to notice these things.

I'm a 32" inside leg and I wear them with a bum covering top/tee shirt/sweater and pumps, definitely comfortable and reasonably stylish IMO
Just bought a pair of cream ones from T...o's to wear with long cream/taupe/navy over shirt and my 'baggy days' tee shirts.....

They are lovely with a longish tunic top over them, no matter what your size. I think it slims down your silhouette, as long as they aren't all wrinkled up on your legs, then you would end up looking like the front end of a panto elephant. And if they do look like tights, even better, you can wear them with a short dress.

I have medium length/sized legs, and the thighs and knees have now gone a bit floppy, so skinny jeans contain in a comfortable way if the right style and size is bought for one's shape. This will, however, require a certain amount of determination. Not for wearing day in and day out tho'. Bit of fresh air around the delicate areas is certainly to be considered occasionally!

Given that I live in leggings in the winter I thought I'd buy some jeggings but, when I tried them on the were all wrinkly on my short fat legs [Norah Batty look] even though they were meant to be tight. How can that be?? Problem with very tight jeans is that they don't suit people with big legs but they don't suit people with skinny legs either. And they can cause all sorts of medical problems; when tight jeans were first fashionable many years ago I ended up going to one of those hospital departments for people with vd as I was too embarrassed to see my GP; the nurse just laughed and said 'm'dear, stop wearing tight jeans, we're seeing young ladies like you all of the time because of it'.

A thread about skinny jeans on Gransnet?!!!! This is so wrong!



Have you not thickened?

For skinny jeans you need skinny legs and that rules me out.

If I had such lovely slim legs I might be tempted too but unfortunately I have the short fat hairy kind. I've just bought two pairs of patterned floppy trousers that come in at the ankles a bit like harem pants. When I showed them to DH in Monsoon he said - pyjamas. I shall wear them in comfort in the house.

I'd say go for them Absent.
Recently bought some slim fit ones from Crew sale (half price).I got the impression that himself wasn't too keen, tried to be tactful by saying he wondered if my thighs would be comfortable! I'm about 5.6" and a size 14 so don't think they look too awful, much prefer a slim fit to flappy round the ankles boot cut.

Of course you must have them, absent. You're the best judge of what suits you and it sounds as if you have the perfect accomplice in your DD.

Go for them absent not everyone is lucky enough to have good legs why waste one of your best assets.

I have hugely long legs. Sounds good!

Go for them absent , previously I've only worn them with boots in the winter, but I got some different coloured ones a few weeks ago and I love them!
One pair of navy skinnys have zips at the ankles so I feel quite tricky
If you've got long legs you can't go wrong.

I love Uniqlo super stretch jeans they are so comfortable and come in loads of colours. I wear mine with a loose shirt or relaxed fit sweater over and I think they look great. You sound like you are super tall and slim so make the most of your assets!

She will go for cinnamon, green, sky blue, scarlet – and I will trust her.