Im always tripping upstairs with wide leg trousers/dressing gown on??

when out i hold them up. at home i'm afraid i either remove them or tuck them in my knickers (yes, they're that 'flowy')

It sounds like there is a gap in the market for more petite style ranged definately.

Is it the way you walk? Perhaps you are inadvertently Goose Stepping? Honest feedback from an independent observer could be needed.

Oh no! I have long said - almost jokingly - that I’m likely to die from pj trouser trip up or down the stairs! I was hoping that it doesn’t actually happen, but now I know that this really probably is my fate. I’m also a short arse so length is always a problem. I’m currently wearing pjs that just keep falling down, making them even more dangerous than usual. I genuinely think about it almost every time I go up the stairs! I even asked Alexa the other day how many people die from trousers…seems like quite a lot of deaths involve trousers and clothes in some way. Send help.

I’m 4ft 10 (almost!) and no word of a lie my current favourite jeans are denim shorts from next 😆.

They look like normal jeans because I think they are meant to sit just below the knee so have a tapered fit but I can’t believe how long clothes seem to be now.

I used to fit into petite clothes - especially when the fashion was for jeans and trousers to sit above the ankle but I have “normal size” friends now who are 4ft 4 or 5 and shop from the petite range.

My dressing gown is supposed to be calf length but touches my feet so I’m obviously doomed and all my clothes are death traps regardless of what I choose to wear.

I would also love a pair of proper running trainers but it’s not possible when you are children’s size 13, my shoes have no support and I’m lucky to find trainers without Velcro.
I don’t even any proper shoes to support me or keep me steady so instead of always assuming my biggest risk is being trampled I now have the worry it’s my clothing that’s going to cause my demise.

Always look at the steps as you go downstairs - my only near trips have been if I look ahead and not down -I’m not a visiting head of state….

I had a pair out to bring on holiday and then made the decision to leave them! Way too risky and didn’t fancy a trip to A&E eating into my holiday time!

I bought a lovely pair of purple linen wide leg trousers that have a shirred elastic waistband. First time I walked upstairs wearing them, I kept treading on the hems and the trousers slowly worked their way down to my ankles. Good job I was at home!

Also, just to add to fears about stairs, I have also slid on the stairs in my socks but was able to save myself. Also ummoisturised bare feet can be slippy if they're a bit shiney.

The step below, as you lower your foot you tap the back of the step so you know that your foot will be on the step and not over the next step down.

It was used as an example of how to safely go down stairs if you can't see your feet.

I use it for the last few steps as I've missed the bottom step more times than I care to remember!!

Yep, this - you have to channel your inner regency lady and gracefully lift your skirts (harder to gracefully hitch up your wafty trousers 😆).
Although I still fell up the stairs at work a couple of months ago (landing literally at the feet of the (male) deputy head who was waiting to come down and looked very bemused - absolutely mortifying !)

A friend of a friend had a really nasty accident wearing "death trousers" to a birthday party. She tripped while carrying a glass of wine, dropped the glass, which shattered and she fell onto the broken glass and sliced open an artery in her arm. She's OK, mainly thanks to another friend who's a retired nurse but it could have been much, much worse if that friend hadn't been there.

Can someone explain this tapping the back of the step with your heel?

Which step? So if I’m going down the stairs in white trousers, what is this? And how does it help?

Yes, I think the wide trousers are very worrying but I also have the problem that I like them!

Your dressing gown is midcalf and it’s still happening?

Or you could use bicycle clips on the wide legs 😊

Switch to cuffed pyjamas.

Normal wide legged pyjamas are no good for anyone under 5’4”.

I do hold them as well, death trap for me as we have an open staircase opening to living room so could easily fall and hurt myself badly😆

i got my toe caught it my wide leg trousers and fell over in my garden. Would have been hilarious had I not been carrying my 6 month old.

I always hold dresses up on stairs, I look like some kind of maiden but I’d definitely fall over if I didn’t!

Ha! I have neuralgia in my feet - can't feel them at all, and this trick of sliding my heels down the back of stair treads is a life saver.

Flip-flop are perilous too.

I once ran for a bus in wide leg trousers. Still got the scar to show for it. I’m now a lift them up when walking up and down the stairs type. Death traps. But flattering for my shape…

I feel (felt) like a boat in Cowes week when wearing them. Big fat no from me and I don't care how unfashionable I am. They are horrible things and flatter no one imv.

Be safe going up and down stairs. No open back slippers, no voluminous long wide legs and d/g. I had a trip a few years ago and have a chip broken in one of my vertebrae. No permanent damage but so, so close to disaster. Lesson learned, do not be me.

Three quarter leg pjs for me and a cardi/fleece over the pj top. I can even answer the door in that!

I am 5'2" so flappy trousers are always my downfall (literally). Going up the stairs I've realised that my toes get caught in the opposite leg/hem! I do try to lift them up like a ballgown but its hard when youre carrying stuff upstairs. Not so bad going downstairs though.

I thought you were going to say you were
4ft 8 or something. No ideas then!

Slippers are up their with the most dangerous of footwear too!

I'm now quite paranoid on stairs after my mum tripped and fractured two vertebrae and took 2 year to get back to something like normal mobility.

I was taught a good tip of tapping the back of the stairs with your heel as you walk down to help you avoid missing a step when I was sent on a manual handling course before a lab move

My great grandad was an avid long distance cycler and he always had trousers clips on to avoid the legs getting caught on the chain (pre-mass availability of lycra) maybe a pair would be useful to pop on and off trousers so you get the practicality and the aesthetic look? 😆