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What jeans now?

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NotGoodieTwoShoes · 08/01/2019 14:31

After, quite frankly, being a bit of a porker for the best part of the year I'm ready to discard my old size 14 Sainsburys jeggings for the real thing, size 10.

*I certainly don't want any baggy cut offs or to revert to the old style very skinnies, I want something that looks "now" and must be a little bit sexy and fashionable.

Ideas?

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Badtasteflump · 09/01/2019 11:20

This thread has gone a bit weird - but interesting!

OP I don't get why you care if a label says M&S or Hotter or whatever - it's all about how it looks on, isn't it? I have been buying jeans from M&S since I was in my 20's, on and off. I don't think the fact that they were from M&S aged me at all.

I kind of admire your attitude though - especially at your age Wink

etnagreen · 09/01/2019 14:32

This is such a Grin thread!

PinkysEars · 09/01/2019 19:33

I bought some from Uniqlo recently and I'm very pleased with them.

NAP have a good range if you're looking to spend more.

Gina2012 · 09/01/2019 21:33

I do apologise if I was rude, the last time I responded in that way was when it was suggested I try some Hotter shoes!

Maybe next time try politeness as a default.

BusterGonad · 10/01/2019 08:20

Great thread. It has made me smile!

Mercurial123 · 10/01/2019 08:29

I got mine from Muji the quality is really good I love them.

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NotGoodieTwoShoes · 10/01/2019 13:00

I'd ask those who display every day ageism to consider what they might have posted if I had said i was 60+ and wanted some new jeans, because I was proud of my new body. i expect you would have directed me to Bon Maqrche or some other provider of crappy clothes for people whose age makes any pretence at style ridiculous, that my derriere can't be pert and lovely because of my age and doesn't deserve any money spending on cladding it. I'm totally sick of the ageist attitude to the purchase of ordinary clothes. We are not talking about Gold hot pants here!

I did actually walk through M&*S yesterday to the food department and took the trouble to look at the jeans. The problem is too much stretch, which makes the skinnier ones look cheap when they are on. The nicest jeans have some stretch but manage to look on the skinny side of slim through the cut and the fabric. That costs more.

WE get lots of threads on here that are asking for advice about evening wear which would be £200 + bought for one occasion or the £1000 + handbags threads where anyone who dares to suggest this is excessive gets shouted down. If you spend £180 on jeans they would probably be very cheap indeed on a cost per wear basis - perhaps a couple of pounds. Overall I tend to spend a lot of money on items I know will look great and last for a while, being worn frequently.

My mother died this year aged 92, even she thought Hotter shoes were an abomination from a style point of view

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halfwitpicker · 10/01/2019 13:02

I think you sound fab OP.

I bought some high waisted Guess skinny jeans the other day, they look fab. Even though my arse is a bit flat it looks like I've been doing lunges all Christmas.

PaulHollywoodsleftbollockhair · 10/01/2019 13:21

Take a chill pill and just go and buy some fecking jeans OP.

Hiphopopotamous · 10/01/2019 13:23

From: NotGoodieTwoShoes
To: Hiphopopotamous
Re: Did you mean to be so rude?
18 minutes ago
Firstly this was rather bad form, of course to cut people like you off at th e pass i should have remembered to name change back, but the purchase of a pair of jeans is not one where I expected this behaviour. Secondly you have obviously not read the old thread in full, my 71 year old has been kicked into touch. Thirdly when I saw my counsellor I took a photograph of him to show him as i did not want him assumed to be unattractive by the counsellor, it is even more agesist to make derogatory remarks about someones on the basis of their age.

OP - I'd never have looked you up if you weren't so bloody rude to the first person answering. Stop sending messages to people standing up to you for being a bully.

LadyRochfordsFlayedGusset · 10/01/2019 13:35

Slight derail but I really wish ripped jeans would finally be over. Started years ago now, and over muscly men wearing them look like identikit Hulks bursting out of their clothes.

And it's too bloody cold for ripped anyway. Rant over.

slowrun · 10/01/2019 13:40

doesn't deserve any money spending on cladding it

Why is spending copious amounts of money equated with style? This is quite simply elitist nonsense. Some of the greatest and most revolutionary style movements in history (punk for example) were cheap, homemade and accessible to anyone creative enough not to wear what the fashion industry wanted us to consume at great expense.

IconicWaffle · 10/01/2019 13:45

You tell em OP, you and your bottom sound great! You’re the type of person I’d like to have a drink with Wine

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NotGoodieTwoShoes · 10/01/2019 14:03

Thank you Iconic, still not sure why spending money on something nice you will wear several times a week is so evil!

I always buy my son Nudie jeans and wasn't aware they did womens, they also look very good. Of course you can buy some things cheaply that are great buy (y New Look sweatshirt with BELLE on the front is lovely, my hush one with LOVE on it is like a dish cloth)

This is about jeans, not my sex life, about which I will be posting further after the weekend in a more appropriate place!

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slowrun · 10/01/2019 14:22

still not sure why spending money on something nice you will wear several times a week is so evil!

It's not. The sneering attitude towards cheaper brands is because it suggests only the expensive brands, which are exclusive to people able to spend larger amounts of money, are stylish. Which is elitist. People without enough money to afford expensive brands can still be stylish too. In fact people who don't give a hoot over which brand jeans they wear can still be stylish probably more so than the ones slavishly following which brands are deemed 'in' by the 'fashion set'.

slowrun · 10/01/2019 14:24

about which I will be posting further after the weekend in a more appropriate place!

Please spare us...

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NotGoodieTwoShoes · 10/01/2019 14:25

M&S is very much sneered at on here! Every season their worst excesses are posted and criticised. M&S is not particularly cheap. I have had Top Shop jeans in the past, which are cheap and look good, the problem is they get baggy very quickly. Some people have the knack of looking good in a bin bag, the rest of us need a little help!

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Winebythebottle · 10/01/2019 14:28

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slowrun · 10/01/2019 14:29

Some people have the knack of looking good in a bin bag, the rest of us need a little help!

Sorry, it's easy to forgetWink My advice is to care less about specific brands and go with what you like when you put it on.

slowrun · 10/01/2019 14:34

NB I'm posting all this wearing a jumper my DMiL knitted paired with some ancient (10+ years old) New Look skinnies without stretch (just because I can comfortably fit into them again)....

TakeMe2Insanity · 10/01/2019 15:40

The aibu people need a pointer to this thread.

Agree with pp if you feel good you will look good in anything. You did sound dismissive to the first person who responded.

Wide legs are now, but agree Selfridges personal shopper will find ‘the’ right ones.

AnyFucker · 10/01/2019 16:56

Op, you got a battering not because of your age but because if your rudeness

Also because you are no better than someone who shops at Bon Marche.

You equate money with class. Big mistake, huge.

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NotGoodieTwoShoes · 10/01/2019 17:21

Thank you everyone for the constructive comments about jeans.

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AnyFucker · 10/01/2019 17:30

Nothing nasty about my comments in comparison to yours but it makes my heart glad that you acknowledge our shared history 🧡

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