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

[likelysuspect]

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.

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!!

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

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 knew it.

This is my destiny.

All for the sake of balancing out my big backside.

Goodbye cruel world.

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.

Are you wearing the Zara death pants?!

‘Zara death pants’: are these the world’s most dangerous trousers?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/15/zara-death-pants-are-these-the-worlds-most-dangerous-trousers?CMP=share_btn_url

😂😂😅

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.

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

@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

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? 😆

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

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 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 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…

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.

Yes I look really good in them.

Crutches may ruin the look of course

OK, so people are cautioning against the trouser. But what about my dressing gown, its not even that long.

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!

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😆

Switch to cuffed pyjamas.

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

Or you could use bicycle clips on the wide legs 😊

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

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!