If you look like a carrot

[EleanorRigbysNeice]

...in skinnies and are large of backside/thighs etc what can you wear apart from skirts? That's it really. I dread this time of year in a way. I have to move out of opaques and boots/shoes and just feel "a bit of a tip" for 5 months or so.

Anyone? I need help

Have spent the evening checking out your lovely suggestions and they all look fab....but then it says "our model is 5ft 10" and wears a size 10". Great. I'm more of a triangle, on legs.

Boyfriend jeans are amazingly comfy as well !
I am only 5ft 2 but loved my next ones and wore them till they fell apart !
Wallis do some nice jegging/jeans in dark colours that I wear all the time - although I have to turn the bottoms up slightly - hey are nice and stretchy but not too tight so not like skinny jeans.
Still love my boot cut jeans even though they aren't "in fashion" anymore

Knees dropping? Is this a thing that happens? . I may have to rethink the a-line skirts for summer after carrying out a knee inspection.

I'm mid 50's. It happened all at once. Couple of years ago I'd slap on the fake take and get my knees out, now I think it's a kindness, if I don't.

Fake TAN.

I'm not too far behind you in years but I'd never really looked at my knees. I suppose knee droppage is only natural though as nothing else seems to be where I'd left it.

poppym12 😐 and 😄 It's a bit crap really. I moaned about my shape (always the pear, never the celery) throughout my younger years. What I didn't get, was that it was the shape I was. Losing a stone to look like a more slender pear only exacerbated things. Gaining the stone (as I always did) was "failure".

Advice to the young and lovely....appreciate your body as is. Don't make comparisons.

In that spirit of acceptance.... 😊 I imagine I am sitting in a circle with ordinary woman in a village hall somewhere and announce "my name is Eleanor and I am pear shaped". Everyone smiles. It's OK.

I do recommend a maxi skirt OP. Ones with a slight A line work best to balance out/skim over the pear thighs. You may need ones that come in Petite length (I'm 5'3 and do but you may be ok).

The Cambridge ankle skimmers from Boden are excellent if you have legs like baguettes as I do. And midi skirts are also good as you get to show a small bit of leg without the knees appearing (shudder). I hate summer and am dreading packing away my tights and ankle boots...

We could be twins eleanor. I always hated my pear shape, even as a size 10. Now I'm decidedly fatter curvier and still the same shape, maybe a bit more hourglass as for some reason I've grown boobs in my 40's, but I dress for my shape in what I feel ok in rather than buy things I like the look of which I then decide I look horrible in.

I have carried out a knee check today and meh, I'm still going to wear the planned skirts.

Get your knees out girl! I'm in the next decade to you and in my 40's, the knees were (relatively) a thing of beauty 😀

Yep, like the Boden ankle skimmers. Will try them.

Would generally shun a maxi skirt as too patterned/loud for me. But will have a good look. Any particular brand minipie?

M&S straight/ slim leg jeans (Per Una) they're quite a thick denim with not really much stretch so hang down properly rather than clinging like skinnies.

I'm currently of a defuzzing ban as I'm saving it up for a mammoth epilation session before I go away in a couple of weeks. I can't get the knees out in public yet as it look like I've knelt on baby hedgehogs.
I have a couple of maxi skirts from Gap. Plain jersey fabric as I don't like patterned anything. They hang quite nicely and swoosh about a bit.

Thanks, all. Had a mooch around the shops yesterday. Fat Face, White Stuff, John Lewis....no boyfriend jeans, at all. Hush do nice ones but like hens teeth, you can't get 'em. So drew a blank there. Bought a pair of jeans from fat face but not sure. I tried on a 14 which were baggy at the waist and a 16 which were great on the waist but really baggy at the crotch/arse. Sizing was a little strange. Bought the 14 and a belt....we'll see.

Atm I wear Gap girlfriend jeans. They're not bad for pears. Size down.
And last summer I had a pair of those cropped slightly wide-ish legs jeans, they sound awful but were actually ok. And reasonable fashionable. Actually I loved them.
The last couple of summers I've worn those H&M slacks for work. They're ok too. Something a little fitted/not too baggy or boxy on my top half helps give me shape.

Get the knee thing and I am bloody delighted midi skirts and dresses are in style now.

I'm probably a similar shape and age to you. I wear dresses/opaques/ boots in winter but couldn't show my legs in summer, and skinnier don't look good on me unless tooled into boots with a longer top.

I normally get slim cut or straight leg jeans, I have had several pairs of next lift and slim (or something like that) in a slim leg. Also wear crop leggings with long top / tunic or longish skirts, just above ankle length (cAnt do maxi as I'm short, also worried I'd trip over )

I've just bought a Boden maxi (in boring navy, wish they did more plain colours but they do petite at least!) but have had ones from Mango and Gap in the past, iirc. The key is thick enough fabric and a shape that flares enough from the waist not to cling to thighs and create mermaid effect.

Oh, I also have a phase 8 maxi which I lurve. It's a kind of floaty fabric rather than jersey, lots of material but very lightweight so kind of swooshes rather than clinging. Last year's though. but they do quite a few maxis every year I think.