fat ladies and black culottes

[colditz]

Good mix or bad?

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I am quite fat ( well size 16) and cullottes are not a good look on me.

Suppose it depends on how good your legs and ankles are.

better than fat ladies and white trousers

I think you need to be tall with long legs to beable to pull off culottes.

i'm a size 12 but only 5ft., 3in. and they look like hell on me.

you can be as rude as you like wb... but i am... ahem... large and my white linen trousers look fab.

(but wldnt be seen dead in pair of culottes... black or otherwise)

I have some white linen pants but they are not cropped and worn with a carefully chosen kaftannish style longer top.

IME culottes are normally arse enhacing even if they are black.

arse enhancing meaning what exactly.... "looking truly ginormous" sort of enhancing???
twinset you are clearly a woman of grat taste and style.

[rant ahoy]

why would anyone of any size want to wear culottes anyway?
if you want a skirt wear a skirt, if you can't cope sitting on floor etc in skirt, wear trousers.

besides, culottes are always a funny mid-calf length that flatters no-one.

hear hear mrs b

do you take the same (dim) view of a half mast sort of jean?? am toying with the same (toast sale... cropped linen / cotton carpenters jeans)... cant do links for toffee but would welcome a view mrs b (or anyone else except that wb)

I always avoid any type of cropped pant as they are deeply unflattering on me, although the heat has forced me to give in and I have bought a pair of Next's boarding trousers that can be cropped. Not the most flattering thing in my wardrobe but ok for walking the dog on the beach or paddling.

The only time culottes look almost alright is in the winter with high heeled long boots, so I think my answer would be no, not at the moment.

I WAS not being rude

I mean tight white trousers which show off multicoloured thongs underneath

cropped trousers ok, but (as with boots and skirts) make sure they end at flattering point on calves.
I like mine either 1" below knee or 6" from ankle - anything in between makes my average-ish lower limbs look heffalumpish.

They are nice but I would like a hippo in them. You may be more delicately proportioned than me though!

well it SOUNDED v rude wb
thankyou, v helpful mrs b.. will get tape measure out
not at all sure about that twinset!

Most things I say sound rude.

Fat ladies and halter neck tops, with all their skin hanging out.Thats a no-no as well

controlfreaky - measure a skirt that you know is a good length already - what works on me may fail dismally on you...

it hadnt gone unnoticed wb!
will do mrs b... and thanks.

I'm 5'2" and a size 12 and I love my cullottes! And they are actually quite flattering if I do say so myself. They do need to be worn with something pretty and fitted on top though.
They are great for work.

Funny you should post this. in town today i saw a LOT of larger ladies (some of really quite large) wearing black cullottes. i even thought to myself something along the lines of they must be doing a lot of them in Evans. Of the 5 different people I saw only one looked really good, but the rest could have looked worse. On the whole I agree they are better as winter wear with high heeled boots.