New fashion women's jeans.

I used to wear wide legged jeans, they looked great. I was 19 years old with a 20 inch waist.

Now I’m 68 years old and afraid to measure my waist

At 5'2" wide-leg trousers/jeans are not a good look for me. Skinny are too clingy; Slim-fit are better but I might try Mom-fit as they look OK from what I've seen.

To be honest, none look great when you're a shorty, and have a short waist and flat bum - I need a longer body!

Think I might start wearing dresses and skirts for a new look.

No wide legged jeans here either, straight leg. I’m 5’11” size 16. I too hate material flapping about.

MrsJeeves

You're being a bit hard on Lillian40! When I read the OP the poem of Ogden Nash, which was in a book given to me 50+ years ago, came to mind:
"Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.
You look divine as you advance
Have you seen yourself retreating?"

So, Ogden Nash was rude too! We shouldn’t be judging each other.

Everyone should choose to wear whatever they want. Not your business

You're being a bit hard on Lillian40! When I read the OP the poem of Ogden Nash, which was in a book given to me 50+ years ago, came to mind:
"Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.
You look divine as you advance
Have you seen yourself retreating?"

Coastpath

Bowie legs?

????

Wide leg jeans. No thanks. Far too 1970's with all that material flapping round your legs.

Bowie legs?

dogsmother

Blue belle.
The mom jeans I have are high waisted, loose around the hips and thighs, and generally looser they are shorter in the leg I mainly wear them with short boots rolled up or rolled down if trainers.
I’m a skinny jeans or bootcut usually. I always like comfort, too old for anything else.

Spot on dogmother .. I have had comments from folk saying how "trendy" they are different from the normal.

Lillian40.... I read your post with a chuckle as I'm sure you intended.... Hang on in there.

time was when you could go and just buy a pair of jeans, now there are so many different styles in M&S and price range from £19 to £68.. and they are no longer denim anyway... I wear the skinny range .

Thanks Dogsmother I haven’t seen them around
I like skinny jeans I used to really like bootcut which are more comfortable than skinnies but you just can’t get them anywhere around my neck of the woods
I ve got cotton wide leg dungarees for the summer but don’t think I look good in wide legged trousers or jeans in winter clothes
Ahh well I ll just carry on as I am

What an unpleasant post Lillian40

As you haven’t returned I’m guessing that you are a G F as they would say over on Mumsnet?
Why don’t you post the same question there and see what they have to say!?

How are you today, Lillian40 ?

Lillian40

At last wider leg jeans, lets be honest, how many older women look good in tight or narrow leg jeans.. Even some younger women would do themselves a favour and not show of the huge hips' and unshapely legs. We cant all look like models. I have walked behind bandy legs, bowie legs, spindle legs and fat legs. Not a pretty sight. How much more feminine we will all look in the wider leg jeans. The problem is where do you purchase them, they are promoted but in which store.???

I need wide leg jeans as I have a condition called lypodemia which means the fat cells from the hips down try so hard to retain their fat that it is very hard to have slim legs, so these jeans are perfect for me. Nothing to do with how I look in other jeans - I simply can't get my legs into any other fit.

Blue belle.
The mom jeans I have are high waisted, loose around the hips and thighs, and generally looser they are shorter in the leg I mainly wear them with short boots rolled up or rolled down if trainers.
I’m a skinny jeans or bootcut usually. I always like comfort, too old for anything else.

I prefer boot cut jeans they seem to balance me better but they are harder to get than they used to be. My legs look like a sausage in a skin even in straight leg jeans and I'm too short for wide legs except perhaps linen trousers in the summer or silky evening trousers.

Isn’t it sad that some women feel it necessary to judge other women’s appearances? I have never heard of men doing this to their peers!
Quite frankly so long as I look relatively respectable I don’t care what anyone else thinks i looks like. Judging others on their appearance is unpleasant and completely unnecessary.

I d never heard if mom jeans so looked them up…what is the difference ? They look the same as skinny jeans
Whats good about them please ?

Thank god I’m older and don’t give a toss what anyone thinks or else I might develop some phobia about the way I look in my jeans ?

Think it all depends on a persons height and body shape as to what jeans suit them. Any lady of any age can wear jeans and most people learn which type suits them and what they feel most comfortable in. I wouldn’t wear wider leg jeans myself as being only 5 feet tall they would look and feel a bit silly.

Merlot, I like the bootcut jeans, but have great difficulty finding them.

Visgirl another vote for the mom jeans! So comfortable and I get a lot of compliments from younger folk too. My dd bought them not sure I’d have been brave enough to go for them initially.

GreyKnitter

Contentiously I like the slim legged jeans and think they look good on me!

Me too!

Some young girls always fashion regardless of whether it suits them. It was ever thus. They learn what suits them in time. I'd love to look good in skinny jeans but my swollen arthritic knees rule them out. Straight legs are fine. Wide legs flapping around, no way.