Wide leg trousers will be the death of me

[HoldMyWine]

Really. Today I am wearing those balloon style trousers and three times so far ( twice on the stairs) the toe on one leg has caught in the trouser leg on my opposite leg.
I am home alone today and if it happens again it could be the end of me.
You don’t get this danger with leggings.

A colleague ripped the tendons in her ankle tripping down the stairs in her wide leg pyjamas. She was off for weeks and her ankle has taken months to recover. She binned the pj's.

They were around later than that, well into the 90s. I don't actually remember them being an 80s thing but I might have been too young to know.

On the one hand, they're ridiculous and remind me of the vests my children wore when they were babies. On the other, if you want a top to stay tightly tucked in, they do the job.

I was definitely wearing them in the late 80s.

Oh this has taken me straight back to last summer, when a very nice group of young lads knocked on the door on a scorching hot day offering to wash my car. I gratefully took them up on it, and teen DD said hi to one of them she happened to know as she walked past the door.

They did good job, and after paying them I asked if they'd like a cold can of drink too. It was a perfectly lovely interaction, until on the way back to the door I caught my toe in the opposite hem of my wide legged trousers and barely stayed upright as I fell into the porch and full lobbed coke cans at them. I didn't see DDs horrified face, but I felt it. You only get one chance to have cool parents. Sorry girl 🤦‍♀️

Mine got caught in aTesco trolley and I had to rescued by Dave the trolley man!

Yes I’ve done that as well!

This is why I've never bought a pair.
I'm an absolute disaster at the best of times. I just knew it wouldn't end well with wide leg trousers.
After all, I'm the person who managed to tear the extensor tendon in my finger taking a sock off!! I'm a professional organist. Had to wear a splint on the finger continuously for 8 weeks and then another weeks just at night.

So nope... if I had wide leg trousers I'd probably die on their first outing. Same goes for long floaty skirts and dresses.

Bicycle clips

If the fast fashion garment factory workers have stitched hexes into them, fair play.

Where is the laughing emoji when you need it?!

I've never worn them since

Wide leg trousers + strappy wedge sandals.

I was walking back to work on my lunchbreak with my nice newly purchased salad in a box. It was windy so trousers were flapping about it and I was in a hurry so was walking quickly causing extra flappage.

They somehow wrapped around my leg but also got caught on the strap on my sandal on the other foot, essentially zip tying my feet together.

Crashed to the ground, knees scraped so badly I ripped holes in the murderous trousers. Grazed elbows and one hand, but kept salad entirely intact in the other hand.

It bloody hurt but I always think it could have been worse and I've just face planted into my salad on a busy high street!

A few years ago I made the mistake of running (yeah, I know!) across a supermarket car park whilst wearing wide-legged trousers. I went flying and landed face down over a drain cover. The trolley bloke came over, asked if I was OK - I clearly wasn't! - and then he strolled off leaving me there.

Luckily my DH was a few yards behind me and came to my rescue. I had some massive bruises and grazes to show for it 🤣

Back in the day when Chelsea Girl did lovely Indian print wraparound skirts I was crossing the road with a friend. Her skirt got hooked on the bumper of a parked car but she carried on walking and was basically publicly disrobed. I confess I was no help as I was collapsed with laughter.

Poor girl!

Unfortunately, l think l can match that at least.

l was in Selfridges wearing a wrap around skirt which was dependent on a single button. I was standing on an escalator when said button pinged off. Skirt did a swirl style unwrap and dropped to the step. It then got caught in the escalator “teeth” where l had to wrestle with it.
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Brilliant!

There’s an idea for a new Wallace and Grommet sequel-The wrong ( wide) legged trousers!

This thread is really delivering the laughs.

Gentle hugs, painkillers and commiserations to all my fellow clothing-injured MNers. 🫂

🤣 this thread has me laughing out loud!!

I did what I can only assume to be a similar injury to myself in a toilet on a train. Wiping myself using very thin loo roll, the train jolted at just the wrong moment and I was in agony! Had to come out of the toilet and get sit back in my seat without wincing too obviously!!

Really bloody expensive (expensive for my budget, anyway) three-quarter length jacket or blouse sleeves catching on door handles in friends' houses. The rage at their door handles that must be suppressed... Have learnt to do an instant stop and reverse at the slightest resistance.

I'm taking on board that the day is coming soon when I won't be able to put trousers on while standing and not concentrating on the task in hand or it'll be pitch over sideways and break something.

Bare toes are your enemy when going downstairs in wide legged trousers. Hooky little buggers and they hurt when bent the wrong way. Get your shoes/trainers on first. If you're a no shoes house then you could learn to skate down the stairs in your socks.

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You may laugh, Green, but they are very helpful when wearing wide leg trousers in a festival toilet

or any loo where the floor is suspiciously damp

I was a teen when “fat pants” - wide legged jeans/trousers were a thing. I tried to ride a bike with them on, they got caught in the chain and I fell right into a huge patch of nettles. I love that fat pants are back now that I haven’t used a bike in about 20 years. They suit my gothy little 5ft frame brilliantly. I even dug out my Tammy Girl old ones. Skinny jeans need to stay being over, peeling them off your legs… ugh. The only criticism I could make for fat pants is that they could be made waterproof so that you don’t soak up rain water all the way up to your knees in bad weather and slosh your way around!

😮😮 Save yourselves! Buy stovepipes, drainpipes, bootcuts, anything.