Need to be a stick insect to buy clothes from selfridges or libertys

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Top Shop is bad enough although i never go there these days as i feel too old (even though i look and dress as if i was ten) but i was in liberty's and selfridges on friday as i desperately need a new pair of jeans and thought i would see what theirs were like. Bloomin' eck. The smallest i could see (although i didn't check every style, they each had alot of styles) whenever i check sizes for some that i liked seemed to have NOTHING over a 29 waist (30 if i was lucky). most of them seemed to be 24. TWENTY FOUR, 26/27. i was embarrassed to ask if they had a 31....felt like i was an alien or something so i crept out. I like skinny jeans but i like them a bit baggay around the bum area, ideally i would have liked a 31 but there was NOWAY they had any in that size. they seem to think we are all anorexic

My friend (w31) just bought some j brand jeans in selfriges so i think YAB a little U IMO

your friend must have like a style that had that size then, she was lucky, every style i looked at seemed to have tiny sizes.....

OP, if you are sure of your size look on the selfriges website, all of the styles in denim go up to a 32 :)

tbh i am not 100% as my weight is all over the place for varying reasons but i doubted i would have fitted in any of the sizes i saw. liberty's was far worse than selfridges from what i saw. they had loads in 24, i could be wrong but isn't 24 tiny? i always thought liberty't was more of a 'women's store when it came to clothes. i don't often see tiny older women. i used to love buying clothes in liberty's but am guessing they have a different buyer now as i haven't like their clothes range for the last 5/10 years, shame. i think i will go on a diet...it's easier

Liberty does attract a certain type of young girl now. Alexa Chung types.

Or I see quite a lot of young girls (grumpily) shopping with their mothers.

or it could be that they had bigger sizes that had sold out, leaving only the tiny ones?

wildfig - good point! they probably sold all the larger sizes. i saw alexa chung last sunday, she hangs out some sundays where i sell (mkt), she is very beautiful, very skinny though, too skinny me' thinks

They should have larger sizes, obviously, but having a 29 inch waist is not being anorexic

winnybella - it is to me!! (just joking) although i was referring not to a 29 but to the 24's and 25's of which there were many

They do usually have all the range, when I was there last an assistant said something about the buyers being cautious and ordering less stock or something (not sure if true or selling tactic!). So it is quite possible they had just sold out.

Selfridges has a lot of different brands. Each brand will come up small, large or just right on you. Unless tired on every single pair of jeans from all depts then YABU.

(I don't know what liberty's is so can't comment on that)

I used to have a 24inch waist up til my second pg and I wasn't anorexic.
But yes, weird. You should have asked for larger size, though-they must have them-or maybe they sold out.

i think it is perhaps a bit of a sensitive subject for me right now and i have a bit of a chip on my shoulder. i have always been really slim but the last 8 months i am very overweight and due to age am having trouble shifting it. seems everywhere i look most women seem tiny, off to the gym tomorrow...

It's definitely harder to lose weight the older you get. I was given money by my father to buy myself a pair of jeans and now I've got a dilemma whether to by my actual size or the pre-pg one in the hope that it will mobilise me to lose some weight

i like buying jeans a bit too bit as that feeling of slight baggyness just under the bum makes me feel as if i have lost weight........i went to the gym for a month (4 out of 5 weekdays a week) and all i lost (as well as eating mostly sensibly) was two pounds, TWO POUNDS. when dd is off school i tend to miss the gym and eat burgers etc....no ideal really, i dread to think how much weight i have just put on in the recent week she had off. i do love skinny jeans though. the thing is, i am not in my thirties, i am mid forties (all be it a young type) but never thought that so many women my age would be so skinny. perhaps it is the places i go to/where i work, there is a certain type (middle class type), so into trying to remain young. i never thought i was that bothered about aging but i guess i am being sucked in by all the constant pressure/brainwashing from the media. dh likes me a bit plumper :)

I'm just glad I'm too poor to shop there. If I wasn't then I would just be depressed I was too fat to buy anything.

YABU I shop there and I don't look like any kind of insect (to my knowledge)