Cheap(ish) jeans for transitioning figure please?

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That's an intermediate dress size, not any other trans-based thing, just in case it looks like it! Please could anyone recommend a high street shop where I could get jeans for around £20-£30 while I'm losing weight? I'm going away on Friday and I've drawn a blank, my size 14s are droopy and unflattering but I need a large 12 to take away. Thank you for any help.

I highly recommend New Look super soft skinnies. They really really stretch (but don't bag) so a 12 should be good on you. cost about £20 so won't break the bank. I started buying them when I was losing weight instead of more expensive jeans.

I am in a similar position, post DC2 and still changing shape. I found these at a local factory clearance sale and they are fab. Really stretchy and just seem to have the extra inch or so in the right places that my "normal" clothes are missing. I have now ordered a second pair

Ooh, thank you Mumelie, that's great, I'll go and have a look. I want something more jeans than jeggings. I've got quite a small waist, big hips and thighs but fairly well-shaped legs. I'll be on my own in a rather conservative country for a week so I need to avoid the sprayed-on look!

Good old sainsburys 'tu' love their jeans :)

Thank you sleepless, I'll have a look. Do you think they'd suit my shape?

They look super-flared in that picture. They are not, they just hide the first inch or two of my foot.

Wannabe I bought some Tu jeggings but they've gone droopy very quickly, am I just unlucky?

I really recommend M&S; the jeans are usually high-waisted & give good stomach support - I wear the straight style, which are only £15 just now - just as good quality as Gap (where I used to go until I discovered M&S). They also have slim fit, skinnies, jeggings etc

M&S jeggings (in denim, not the coloured finishes) have been my saviour during a similar period.

I also got lucky in TKMaxx once. American brands/sizing sometimes work better.

I like their jeans but I had similar problems with the leggings (the cheaper ones). They did some super soft plush ones which lasted me for ages.

not sure what your shape is from your op. I am on the way (hopefully) from a 12 to a (thick-waisted) 10, but I'm currently carrying post dc bum and thigh flab which these seem to hide beautifully.

sorry just found it. Might be big in the waist for you

Next Relaxed Skinny are good for when you're losing weight IME. At my biggest they were a snug fit and became flatteringly loose as my weight dropped - and basically fitted the way they should have done!

Meant to say, I got away with a size smaller than I actually was because they are a roomier fit thru the thigh than most slim cut styles.

Thanks everyone, that's great. Ill try M&S, Next and New Look on Monday and hopefully fit into something. If not I'll try Tu although I hate the fact that they don't have changing rooms. Is that just my small sainsbury's or all of them? I'm very happily looking forward to losing the baggy-bottomed look!

I think there are changing rooms in all larger ones. There is in ours.

Thank you wannabe, I'll seek out a larger store.

Uniqlo if you are in the SE.

Find a good charity shop instead of spending on jeans you might be sorry to shrink out of.

I got some lovely khaki ones in Primark for £8!

I had been looking in charity shops but had no luck, unfortunately, and need to get something now sharpish! I am in the SE but not in a town with either a Primark or a Uniqulo, sadly. I tried running today and apparently have also "grown out of" my sports bra. It's an expensive business, losing weight isn't it?

I'm post dc2 and living in m&s 20 quid stretch jeans while my old ones fit. They are brilliant

Dotty ps sell jeans for fiveteen quid I think

I've been feeling rather under the weather and wrestling into jeans in changing rooms kept bringing me out in a sweat (sorry, tmi!) so I've just bought some leggings which I will at least be able to travel in. I'll go back and have another go when I'm feeling better and hopefully a little smaller as well!

I am in a similar state another nearly 4 stone down but have had to alter / buy a whole new wardrobe, so yes bloody expensive but fun still a stone to stone and a half to go so have tried to buy cheaply and suprisingly my fave jeans are a black pair I got from New look (online) that are high waisted but skinny, and a £7 pair in Primark in Blue and a pair in grey. SIZE 14 which believe me from a prior size 22 heifer is really really a good feeling... especially as DS1 (21) borrowed a pair to wear out on Sat night