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More women should wear trousers

24 replies

LadyBlaBlah · 28/07/2010 13:24

a lot ofSome women look dreadful in skirts and dresses and should just wear trousers.

That's it.

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CerealOffender · 28/07/2010 13:26

maybe they don't give a shite what you think and like wearing skirts.

LadyBlaBlah · 28/07/2010 13:27

I imagine that is the case

But they would still look better in trousers

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CaptainNancy · 28/07/2010 13:28

I Wear trousers every single day.... its too cold to get your legs out in b ritain!

FranSanDisco · 28/07/2010 13:31

Captain Nancy, are you sure? It's hot here at the moment.

BelligerentGhoul · 28/07/2010 13:31

Well I look better in dresses and skirts - so ner! It's a problem in weather like this though, when you don't want tights but it's a bit cool for bare legs.

Hello Captain Nancy btw - are you okay? Tis J.

I am wearing a dress today, with bare legs - but my feet are cold.

ReasonableDoubt · 28/07/2010 13:32

I often think the opposite. So many women wear unflattering, mumsy black trousers. Get your legs out, FGS!

BeenBeta · 28/07/2010 13:32

YABU!

More women should definitely wear more dresses and skirts. Put it this way if you look awful in trousers - a dress is going to suit your figure far better.

Has anyone not seen Mad Men? The women wear dresses, blokes wear trousers, everyone looks gorgeous.

LadyBlaBlah · 28/07/2010 13:33

Have you surveyed opinion on whether you actually look better in skirts and dresses than trousers?

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AnnoyingOrange · 28/07/2010 13:35

I though you were going to say wear trousers rather than leggings

So many women look terrible in leggings, but they still wear them

ReasonableDoubt · 28/07/2010 13:35

I can carry off both because I am tall and have good legs. If that sounds like boasting, perhaps it is

BelligerentGhoul · 28/07/2010 13:35

Me? I think I am still of sound enough mind to know the truth as it confronts me in a mirror! Trousers, especially jeans, make me look shorter and fatter than I am. I have decent-ish legs still, so look slimmer when I show them off.

FranSanDisco · 28/07/2010 13:39

Large bums and thighs should be covered by skirts surely not trousers.

LadyBlaBlah · 28/07/2010 13:47

Thats cos you is from London, reasonable

Cover the whole lot FranSanDisco, that's what I say

Large bum, large thighs - also large calves?

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HonestyBox · 28/07/2010 15:17

Please - I measure 27 (waist) and 41 (hips), I cannot possibly wear trousers even if I wanted to (and I do want to). Sadly, trousers and jeans are relegated to 'items of the past' status for me and I feel very frumpy sometimes in my skirts and dresses even though I do like wearing them.

I do wear leggings though, also leggings with skirts and legging with dresses and I'm not stopping so there.

Generally trousers look better on men imo but big bums can pull it off if perky enough - I have a great big booty-ish ass and it would look good in trousers if only I could find them. Big flat bums are no good in trousers imo.

traceybath · 28/07/2010 15:30

Wow, Wow, Wow.

So let me add that to my list of things I shouldn't wear according to some on MN: skinny jeans, white jeans, maxi dresses, jeggings and now skirts and dresses.

I'll just slip on a nice pair of bootcut trousers and a tunic top shall I

In all seriousness I think trousers/jeans are less forgiving than a well cut dress.

KristinaM · 28/07/2010 16:46

there are skirts/dresses and trousers to suit EVERY shape. YABU

tethersend · 28/07/2010 16:54

Dresses look better than trousers on most people.

AlaskaNebraska · 28/07/2010 16:56

lol at tracey

MissWooWoo · 28/07/2010 17:24

yes cover the whole lot! we wouldn't want to upset anyone's sensibilities

CaptainNancy · 28/07/2010 22:12

I have to agree that belligerentghoul looks much better in skirts and dresses than I do! (I thought you were on holiday, hence your absence!)

FranSan- seriously I think I have worn a skirt or dress fewer than 5 times in 5 years... I made a pledge earlier this summer to wear a skirt/dress at least once a week... and that lasted 2 weeks

belligerent- we need to have lunch... will email.

BelligerentGhoul · 28/07/2010 23:27

Great - yes please. Am going slowly mad here with two teenagers who don't want anything to do with me.

CaptainNancy · 28/07/2010 23:54

would you like to go en famille?
They could amuse my two, and we might actually get to talk then

Of course... you could swan off with me and leave them to cook dinner...

ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 29/07/2010 00:02

Have spent last twenty years in trousers and the last six months gradually realising that actually dresses suit me far better. It's been a revelation!

Mooos · 29/07/2010 03:59

I always think there are a lot of big-arsed women wearing trousers who obviously don't have mirrors at home.

Sometimes when I'm walking behind them I just can't stop looking at their fat wobbling arses and wondering what possessed them to go out in public looking like that.

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