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

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likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 18:59

I cant seem to walk upstairs wearing wide leg trousers or my dressing gown without treading on them and tripping up. They're death traps

Ive always had this problem, on the rare occasions Ive had long skirts in the past it was the same.

I keenly look at people walking up stairs when Im out if I see them in long skirts and dresses and no one else seems to have this problem.

I dont understand it.

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likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 19:54

Besidemyselfwithworry · 19/08/2026 19:50

@likelysuspect
theyre clearly too long for you and you need to have them shortened. How tall are you out of interest??

No they're not too long at all, all my trousers are just on my ankle which is how I like them or just on my shoe.

Im 5'5 or 5'6

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Besidemyselfwithworry · 19/08/2026 19:50

@likelysuspect
theyre clearly too long for you and you need to have them shortened. How tall are you out of interest??

RaininSummer · 19/08/2026 19:47

I can't wear them either. Bloody dangerous and all the flapping fabric drives me crazy.

Original poster
likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 19:45

Ive just looked at the label properly again and it does actually say 'risk of hospitalisation'

I should have checked this before I bought them.

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MyLimeGuide · 19/08/2026 19:44

likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 19:32

I had to run for a bus the other day in a pair and they kept slapping me around the ankles making it difficult to get any speed up.

So not only officially dangerous but also contributing to tardiness.

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likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 19:32

MyLimeGuide · 19/08/2026 19:21

Hilarious post!! I would too trip up if i had vast amounts of fabric in the way of my feet! 😂 how's your sewing skills? Maybe take them up and inch or 2?

I had to run for a bus the other day in a pair and they kept slapping me around the ankles making it difficult to get any speed up.

So not only officially dangerous but also contributing to tardiness.

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likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 19:30

Lavendersong · 19/08/2026 19:17

Yes they actually are death traps. We had patients in neuro HDU who had tripped over wide legged PJs who had caused permanent damaged and some eventually died. From falling down stairs or into fridges and walls kind of thing

I knew it.

This is my destiny.

All for the sake of balancing out my big backside.

Goodbye cruel world.

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MyLimeGuide · 19/08/2026 19:21

Hilarious post!! I would too trip up if i had vast amounts of fabric in the way of my feet! 😂 how's your sewing skills? Maybe take them up and inch or 2?

Lavendersong · 19/08/2026 19:17

Yes they actually are death traps. We had patients in neuro HDU who had tripped over wide legged PJs who had caused permanent damaged and some eventually died. From falling down stairs or into fridges and walls kind of thing

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likelysuspect · 19/08/2026 19:09

dudsville · 19/08/2026 19:01

To make a serious suggestion, hold them up? I wear these things all the time. When I go upstairs I hold then up and feel like I've gone back in time 200 years.

Well I do obviously but I feel like that as well like as if Im swishing around in a ball gown but then Im in ankle length wide leg trousers so you wouldnt really think its needed or my dressing gown which is mid calf, so I just cant understand why I need to do this and yet other people are swanning around in maxi dresses and not looking like Laurel and Hardy going up stairs!!

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dudsville · 19/08/2026 19:01

To make a serious suggestion, hold them up? I wear these things all the time. When I go upstairs I hold then up and feel like I've gone back in time 200 years.