What shorts do you wear if you're short and 14/16?

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I wore some size 16 next boy shorts today - they're from last summer and I've lost weight... they're massive and very unflattering.

Any recommendations please?

I don't! I've just lost a stone and I'm a size 12 but still don't wear shorts. They just don't look good on anyone....and definitely not when I was a 14-16!

Sorry OP. I think you're better looking at nice cotton cropped trousers.

Go for some culottes. I’m a size 14 and adore culottes and culotte jumpsuits. I detest all shorts!!!

Are you short though Argeles? Or have you got a bit of height?

Culottes will just make a size 14-16 who is short, look wider than they really are.

Next knee length shorts !

They are perfect

Culottes are an awful suggestion btw

I am the same size as you,, the only shorts I can wear are chino shorts, or denim shorts. Gap do some nice ones, and they need to be fairly short.

Cropped trousers look awful on me.

Kaz - I tho k that's where I'm going wrong
The ones I wore yesterday were too big, baggy and too long

No they’re not.
I’m size 14 and 5ft 3 and look awful in shorts. I love culottes.
I have Jigsaw Crocus wide trousers and M&S cropped wide trousers ( all culottes) and they’re very flattering and easy to wear.

Shorts don't tend to be flattering if you have any tummy, I'd prefer to wear skirts.

OP do you have nice legs? My friend is a typical apple shape...size 16. Her legs are her best asset....when she wears a shortish summer dress or short shorts with a flattering tummy skimming top, she looks great.

Perhaps you're like her and need shorter shorts?

"They just don't look good on anyone"

They look good on loads of people. Are you jealous? I wore shorts until I was 42, then my knees started to to horrible and wrinkly, so I stopped wearing them.

goo.gl/images/mLMz7H these are similar to the type I wear

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Lonicera What are you waffling about "jealous' I said culottes don't look good on anyone not shorts...and I stand by that.

They look silly. Even on tall, slim women they look daft.

They look fine on children...and Scouts.

On women who are overweight and short, they look dreadful.

What you wore until you were 42 is nothing to do with what I said.

Don't know why I can't post links, but Google Gap chino shorts.

Kaz I think those are nice shorts.

I look amazing jn shorts

Fucking wear what you like mate

OP. Think of the type of trousers that suit you and work from there. Also colour is vital. I find denim is only ok for very casual garden type stuff.

I love the boden ones (and none of their bottoms ever suit me) because chino type fabric but with stretch. Also gap are good at shorts. Think carefully of length and where they hit your thigh - again boden used to do different lengths- presume they might still do.

No, I have awful legs. I have lymphedema so my feet and legs swell horribly... I'm learning that I just have to try to not think about that though. I'm sick of melting in jeans in the summer 😣

Any shorts that your arse doesn't eat from behind. When the inside leg creeps up it's cringy.

I love shorts in the summer, and think all women look good in them. Just need to find the right thigh length. For me it's 5 inches. My worst problem is my skinny knobbly bruised knees. If the shorts end just above my knees it just draws attention to them, shorter looks better imo on everyone.
Wear the shorts OP, and culottes look good on no-one, I'm size 4 -6 and and 5ft 5 and I look shit in them. Even models look dumpy in them.

I don't really. I look better in a skirt.

I’m a size 8-10 but I have a huge bum and in the summer I do love a skort! Best of both worlds and less clingy than your standard crotch bearing shorts? Or could you wear a midi skirt that has a sheer element to it, so you can see the shorter skirt underneath the longer midi fabric? Both flattering and try boohoo as they have a really great curve range :)

Vlad you do look great in those shorts! If I had legs like yours I’d wear shorts in winter.

I got some lovely floaty culottes style shorts, looks like a skirt, a few nice vest tops and sandals and it's lovely.
Very cool and comfy. I'm a size 16 btw.

I bought a gorgeous pair of jean shorts from Patagonia last year which were about 40 quid. I bought a similar pair from the GAP outlet for less than half the price but the Patagonia ones are very comfortable, flattering and I have worn them loads more.