Just can’t find jeans to fit anywhere!

M&S have started to advertise “magic” jeans-have yet to try them.

I prefer classic blue straight-cut jeans

I have always struggled with jeans and haven’t tried to buy any for about 25 years??‍♀️ I am wide around the hips and thighs but have skinny lower legs and a smaller waist so finding trousers of any kind to fit is a nightmare! If they fit the hips they hang too loose on my legs. Clothing manufactures assume we are all one shape and in my case that’s certainly not true! I would love to find elegant comfortable trousers and comfortably attractive jeans! At the moment I live in tunic dresses and leggings?

I seldom buy new clothes and like 'preloved' jeans which have been washed and softened, so I look on eBay first. I am an apple shape too, small hips and slim legs but a big waist and spare tyre. I got a lovely pair of stretchy denim jeggings, they are by Dorothy Perkins and the style is Eden. I particularly like that they have belt loops as well as good back pockets. I was so pleased with them I searched eBay for some more, and have bought the same style in the same size in light and dark indigo, grey and black. The weird thing is that they are all different - the darkest blue are much tighter in the leg, the lightest are looser on the waist, the black are a thinner fabric! Still, none cost more than £8 a pair.

My waist is such that the waistbands all roll if I don't use a belt. I dislike belts as the buckles always dig in but I'm forever straightening the waistband without one. Perhaps maternity jeggings have a waistband that would not roll down? There are some good ideas here.

QVC have lots of jeans too.

What about TkMaxx? They stock numerous different brands so you might get lucky. Or perhaps jeggings might be a better option?

Marks and Spencer jeggings, my dd buys them for the fit around the hips. I buy asda jeggings but they are skimpy

I have just bought a pair of marks Slim leg jeans with slight stretch they are a good fit and only £19.50. , I also like mandco jeans wth stretch,, incidentally I read on another post that the OP felt frumpy when she wore cords , does anyone else think cords are frumpy , Oh and am I glad I kept my boot cut jeans as they are back in fashion ,

I like Next Jeans and also Joules Munroe . Boden are supposed to be very good but pricy .

Yennifer you just beat me to it!

MawB It seems that bootleg jeans ARE coming back into fashion. I was looking in a few clothes shops last week and they all had stocks of them on the rails. Typically I donated all of mine to the charity shop just before Christmas!! Grrr. aonk I recently bought some jeggings from Peacocks. They have a wide stretchy waistband but quite slim around the legs and bum! No pockets sadly but the fabric was quite denimy!

I always go for jeggings, nice and stretchy. I'm a tiny waist and a big bum. Sainsbury are great, really comfy x

I can probably offer a few pairs!
The atrocious weather has meant I am stuck in (as my backstroke is even worse than my front crawl) so I thought I’d go through the wardrobe
The late Barbara Bush once commented that she had clothes in three different sizes in her wardrobe.
Well,#metoo.
So, not counting the jeans in the drawer under the bed in the spare room which will fit me one day, I find I have got 5 pairs of dark indigo, and 3 pairs of light indigo , in 2 sizes. Mostly straight leg but there are a couple of bootleg (which may or may not be coming back into fashion) so three pairs have gone into the charity bag right away.
That is not counting the innumerable pairs of M&S straight cord trousers (black, grey , wine and dark blue) which I regard as slightly smarter.
Could somebody please stop me ever buying another pair of jeans again as long as I live?

I go to a shop, try a few pairs on, buy a pair that seem right, only to find that once I've had them on for an hour or so, they arent!

I agree with Grannyknot. After a long search I found jeans from M& Co were my perfect fit. Size 18. Also not too much stretch in them. Too much stretchiness makes jeans/trees in my opinion, look like elephant bags the following wear because the stretch doesn't ping back into shape. I avoid stretch.

Got a lovely pair from Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago, dark blue, skinny, lovely soft fabric and fit perfectly, and in a short length too, £15.

For years I bought NYD jeans I found they fitted well, but rather expensive, although they do last. The past couple of years I’ve bought £10 ones from Asda and found they fit just as well and very comfortable ?

I like quite tight jeans and I find M&S wrinkle.
Next do 360 degree jeans which fit perfectly and are well-made.

Yes the m and s ones that say twiggy on the waistband I’ve got a denim pair and a black pair they’re for the ,shall we say , more rounded figures ??

I find that all jeans and trousers are too big on the waist which mean that they don't hang well. I'm sure that the manufacturers fit them on milk bottles!

Twiggy jeans?

Have you tried twiggy jeans from m and s I think they’re great for us grans xx

Another thought - try men's jeans! In the dim and distant past, when I was very slim, I had an 'athletic' build with slim hips. I always bought men's Levis then!

My daughter was always nagging me to go to "TopShop" and I dismissed this for years.

We were going away and I was desperate for jeans of any description, hesitantly I went into Top Shop, the very young assistants were so helpful and the ranges/styles were plentiful. I am now a convert to the 'joni' range (very expanding).

I have tried NYDJ and many other expensive brands but for me Top Shop comes up trumps.

I take a range of jeans in two sizes from M and S into the fitting rooms and keep eliminating and bringing more in until I find a pair I like. Tedious I know but the only way which works for me.

Once I have a pair I like I make a note of the number on the label and order more in other colours from time to time. When, eventually, they stop making the pair I like I have to start the whole process over again.