To keep or not to keep bootleg and flared trousers jeans

Ditch them and buy straight leg or skinny
Skinny - totally last year. .

Bootleg are back in fashion this year! So glad....skinny jeans don’t suit me.

I'm also bored with skinny jeans. I have bought three pairs of straight legs from Bon Marché in black, grey and mid blue. I think I'll go back next week for a pair of dark denim bootcuts because I noticed they have them in stock again.

I'll keep my skinnies for the garden. Really useful when you need to slip your feet in and out of wellies.

Not the ones that slide down my bottom every time I bend over though.

I have never had a pair of skinny jeans. I think they came in when I had a broken ankle so the wider the trouser leg the better at the time.

Bootlegs are making a comeback!

I’m no skinny Winnie but I did do a double take in Cherwell Services today at a very well rounded woman (good 40s) in tight tight straight jeans and a cropped jumper. She’d have looked more balanced with a bootcut, most definitely.

I will never give up my bootlegs. I have half a dozen pairs of skinny jeans which i dont mind wearing now and then but the bootlegs are worn most days

I bought straight cords in Marks for winter, great price and washed well. I'm also still wearing thick leggings and long sweaters/tops with ankle boots. I love the style so I won't stop.

I’m keeping my boot cut jeans Trendynannie I just know they will come back into fashion soon .

I couldn't care less what is in fashion. For heaven's sake, wear what suits your shape and you feel comfortable in.

Mind you, you do look a bit of a bugger in those hotpants tidyskatesmum
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For heaven's sake, wear what suits your shape and you feel comfortable in.

Yes but with a nod to what is in fashion.

Mine's a very vague nod!

So would mine be, Callistemon were it not for DGD1, the family fashionista. She has been known to drag me past Bon Marché hissing, 'Keep walking, Granny. Keep walking!'

She has yet to learn that when you're wearing a pair of jeans that fit well and only cost £18, nobody knows where they've come from.

I remember wearing an M&S skirt to a family get together a couple of years ago. It didn't often get an outing so I was sure nobody had seen it before.

The family fashionista, however, tactfully reminded me that she'd been with me when I bought it. She was NINE.

All I could say was, 'Heavens, where does the time go?'

Now I would say, 'Recycling is all the rage, Daaaaahling!'

DGD1 is only getting to the fashion conscious age.
And I don't fancy ripped jeans, I don't like my knees showing!

Woah, tidyskatemum lighten up a bit. Take a chill pill. I do wear what I think suits me, some of us do like to be fashionable. Yep. I think I just might keep those bootlegs ?

I don't think that bootleg will ever go out of fashion as so many people like it - if you are on the larger side or have a big bottom ( both of which I suffer from !) it's the style for you.
However, if you are really into the skinnier styles, compromise and keep just a pair or two of the wider legged styles.

I agree tidyskatemum, I wear what I am comfortable in.

Wear what makes you happy

I dont do skinny anything!!!! Tried on some leggings for exercising in and felt like Max Wall, some of you will remember him.

Personally, I don't care what is in fashion - skinny jeans & jeggings don't suit my figure. I've never given up my bootleg jeans and trousers (and neither have lots of people I know) although they're probably classified as "slim bootleg" according to M&S. And they're now making a comeback - for all you fashionistas who worry about these things.

No problems with bootleg, flares or wide legs .......... important to just wear what suits you and not to be a fashion victim.

Bootlegs are still in, bought new ones at the weekend

In the end, it's down to storage space... Flares and bootlegs were flattering when I was 20 years younger, but now they're not. They've gone to charity.