Linen Trousers " the acceptable face of jogging bottoms"

[Dogsby]

its true. and i KEEP seeing them on baggy arsed mums. WHY do you think you look nice in these? Get yourself some capris or something, You are one step away from Anne Harvey

Cyb you looked like a film star, you could have been wearing a bin bag to be fair and you'd have looked great

although i may swap fitflop for gabor

oh BLAH BLAH BLAH tweet up,. i'd never go on and on like that

right everyone in one corner wearing fit flops

against me and dogsby

you could wear cropped trousers to a Tom Jones meetup MamG
there'd be loads of 'em there

lol at tom jones meet up. erm no ta.

what if we own flit flops but don't wear them cyb
do I stand in the middle

yes you can referee

right get yer dukes up , i am in fitfloppy corner bouncing on my comfy soles

Lots of linen trousers look great if you have a good figure and they are well cut. Was at a party saturday and saw several lovely ones with heels vests and long beads. To be fair lots of great looking women at party and not many baggy bums in evidence.

i have sort of short peg length trousers

am i a wrongun?

Oi dogs by, you are upsetting those of a sensitive disposition

We need to get a public health warning on these threads eg do not read if you give a stuff about what some strangers on t' Internet think about your clothes

Or perhaps a rating like films

This thread contains moderate bad language and material likely to upset next shoppers

Linen trousers are generally pretty dire unless very very expensive structured linen.

I much prefer white skinnies worn slightly rolled up but appreciate that may not be everyone's cup of tea

Do white stuff still do all those necklaces made out of buttons - I just never got those . . .

who has legs thin enough to roll up their skinnies?

Yes MrsCampbellBlack Whitestuff do still indeed do those button necklaces. Plus the ones with ribbons to tie up. They always have funny displays in windows too. The current one is toy dogs with leads, lots of them and the other side is ducks, which I think you can pay for.

7/8 length cotton trousers are the classiest of the summer trouser options.

With the power to flatter the cankle afflicted.

I think they're more flattering rolled up but I could be deluded as bought a very flattering full length mirror today

Ok, I usually hate these threads, because I am horribly insecure and worry too much about what other people think about how I look, yet still manage to get it hideously wrong most days but having seen lots of similar comments about linen trousers and capris, I would really appreciate some advice from people significantly less style challenged than myself.

Having gained two and a half stone since breaking my ankle last year I am now a size 16 and having had to give up walking five miles a day, my rear end is defnitely of the 'too jiggly for linen' persuasion (although it has to be said, they were very useful as the only trousers that would actually fit over my cast without having to be rolled up). I am very long bodied, but have short legs, which means cropped trousers of any style, just make me look even more out of proportion. My legs are my worst feature, having been quite muscular before, but now having turned to unsightly, unstructured mush. My thighs are awful and very big and I am anything but slim of ankle.

I hesitate to say what I have been wearing recently, in case its some sort of heinous crime fashion (which I'm sure it probably is) - but here goes - I have been wearing wide leg, lightweight Jasper Conran cargo-ish jeans, but have struggled for footwear as I'm still in a lot of pain and my foot regularly swells up after walking, so have some embarassingly grannish dolly bar flats with a supportive soul and some Converse.

So come on ladies - what should I wear during this predicted May heatwave they are predicting?

If it helps, I am a SAHM with three dcs from 28 months to 9 years old, so most days consist of housework (although I tend to change before I leave the house every time anyway) school runs, toddler groups and the occasional trip into town.

I wear my skinnies rolled up. I look shite in linen trousers, like a paper bag.

Mum boots thread where the mumsnet style was defined as "better mutton than mumsy"

It's the crotch creases which draw the eye to your fanjo which put me off.

i roll mine up
poor you moose mama - you hav Official Dispensation to wear what you please

the mum boots thread seems tohave gone . was about mums in london on trips with kids dressing as if they are about to climb everest with backpacks and oxygen tanks