Linen trouser aficonados. THis year is the year you RESIST

[MikeRotch]

please dear god

snigger @ rectors wife

30 quid for jersey cropped trousers which you could pick up from Tesco for a fiver (if you were blind so inclined)

Hobbs gets worse every year. I used to love them, especially their shoes/boots. Their prints this season are truly awful, even the old ladies will be giving them a miss

What does that Hobbs chambray shirt say to you?

Lemon barley
Antimacassars on the sofa arms
Hilary Spurling's biography of Ivy Compton-Burnett

NOT the style of a woman in her prime who wishes to look her best.

So find us larger arses something suitable then....

i saw some pics of me in my linen trousers and i do look fatter than usual so i will try to resist this year - theyre so ool though

hobbs, is the peri-menapausal woman's stop-gap contraception

I'm sure we'd all look gorgeous in the new season's jeans

Getorf - just curious: is it Hilary Spurling you object to, or Ivy C-B (have to admit have never read the latter though my mother liked her) ?

Ordinarily I like to disagree with cod's threads of this type just for the hell of it, but as a serial linen crop offender I can only hang my head and nod along. I genuinely had no idea how massive they make your arse look until I saw a from-behind holiday photo of myself that made me cry real tears.

Fortunately this year I will be hugely pregnant all through summer, so have carte blanche to look like shit in the name of comfort.

polhymnia - no, no objections to either, just sprang into my head as the type of book a rector's wife would read

ah, see what you mean. Always quite liked Hilary Spurling.

You can always rely on Pruna at moments like these.

lol at astar and lol at routinely disagreeing

if any more proof were needed

I've just bought these

Surprisingly flattering, even with a wide, flat arse. If worn with a long enough top.

Better than linen-style-death.

It's the belted peg style trousers. Nice, honest.

I've got some similiar ones tawdry in tencel. I luff them.

Yy, they are tencel. Very comfy. Worried as washed for first time and don't know how they're going to iron up.

Please tell me it'll be okay.

Well it depends on your arse.

I am slim of hip. I recently bought some grey linen trousers and received Proper Compliments.

No drawstring natch.

Am not taking fashion advice from someone who wears white marks jeans

Am yet to see anything else that I can wear to work being, erm, rugby player proportioned of leg and podgy of knee

Over to you.

no no, no drawstrings

or elastic

just trousers that actually fit

i know
i so agree re jeans
but people FINGER Them and say "ooh they are nice..."
its very odd.
they are my only ones.
and are beauts

[childish snigger @ finger]

I love white skinny jeans and have houlihans and am gasp short!

I do think that generally flowy/loose clothes makes people look better than close fitting stuff. But I am a tad mutton/liz macdonald rather like MikeRotch so what do I know