Are you a trouser/jeans or a skirt/dress person?

[AthenaPashmina]

I'm interested in this in a kind of 'statistics' sense. I see a lot of dresses and skirts in stores and online, but not many people wearing them in real life. Even in work related situations, across the board, I see women and girls mostly wearing trousers or jeans.

Might be location specific, I live in a very boring, unpretentious, not very fashion forward area, so it could be skewing things a bit; but I do travel about quite a lot and still maintain that year-round most women are in trousers/jeans.

I will admit that I used to love a well made breezy skirt with a flat waistband and minimal top but I live mostly in straight jeans these days. It is so hard to find that style now amongst the paperbag elastic styles or structural artisanal stuff.

So I am curious, are you mostly in trousers/jeans or skirts/dresses?

Yeah…about that.

Mumsnet uses ‘Grayson Perry’ as a slur but what the dresses actually are come from Cabbages and Roses, Alexandr Manamis, Metta, Egg Trading and Plumo.

They are nothing like the dresses GP’s artistic alter ego ‘Claire’ wears.

A couple of years back mostly skirts and dresses. Now its leaning much more towards trousers, more likely to wear a skirt or dress with opaque tights in winter

When I was younger, skirt suits for work (trousers were looked down upon in a professional environment) and really beautiful dresses / skirts / blouses & shoes out of work.

Then things changed, I started wearing trouser suits for work and trousers / jeans casually. In the process my wardrobe became incredibly monochrome and boring.

Now I would love more colour but feel I have lost my way. Whenever I try coloured clothes on I feel ‘clownish’ and I feel that all the dresses I try on are wearing me rather than the other way round.

I guess I need either Style and Beauty to sort me out or a personal stylist appointment somewhere.

I think the current trend in clothing is pretty minimalist and jeans and trousers including elasticated options seem to fit that better. There was obviously a phase where a lot of people were in statement dresses but that definitely has died out (I'm in central London so have a good cross section of people to observe). Dresses can just look too done even worn with trainers.

But having said I think there are plenty of women who love a dress and wear them because they love them or they suit them or they don't need matching with top/bottoms. And sometimes it's nice to literally dress up and look done.

Me I have one dress I probably last wore 10 years ago and no skirts

I spent 2 decades exclusively wearing skirts and dresses. During the low waist followed by skinnies years. I absolutely love the current available trousers and have switched to wearing them 80% of the time. Though lately I’ve had a hankering for more skirts again so will see!

Dresses, jeans, trousers all worm as often as each other. Skirts very rarely - I struggle to get them right as a shortarse, the proportions are always wrong somehow.

Can’t remember the last time I wore a dress/skirt, got to be 8-9 years ago.

All of above and shorts.

I'm seeing a lot of dresses in the street, fewer in the office. Skirts only on a few die hards like me in work. More jeans than seems necessary even in the air con. I'm Queen of the smart cas jean, but this is the season to look like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman while smart shorts are still in.

In my town actual ‘clown core’ seems to be in. Lots of ‘big top’ striped co-ord trouser sets and large polka dot sundresses on show today.

Jeans and shorts as I walk almost everywhere. I don't own any skirts or dresses, I never go out and they're not practical for bad weather or wind.

I love dresses - don’t have to worry about whether top and bottom go together! But I wear both. I see a lot of people wearing dresses though so I’m surprised you don’t. I am mostly thinking in my age group (30s).

I am currently breastfeeding and so dresses are not very convenient so currently wearing T shirt and shorts all the time which I do find a bit dull.

Playsuits and jumpsuits for me...Yes i basically have to get naked everytime i need a wee but I just find them so comfortable. I live in them.

I wear dresses but honestly as ive gotten older I find my most comfortable sitting position is not thay lady like nor designed for skirts...!

Guess that makes me... trousers and jeans?!

Trousers, jeans and shorts, I don’t own any dresses or skirts. Just not a fan at all.

Dresses mainly. Love a short skirt this weather but a bit self conscious about my legs. Long skirt or maxi dress is nice and cool. Jeans too hot this weather, leggings the weekend

I’m a jeans/trousers/shorts person. Don’t own a skirt and have 3 dresses that come out occasionally in the winter for ‘best’ and are all at least 10 years old.

Skirts and dresses always.
I don't think I've owned a pair of jeans for, maybe, 40 years and, I don't say it out loud very often, but I think there are very few people, men or women, who look good in jeans. I honestly don't know why people wear them.
I would like to wear trousers more often, but find it really hard to find any that fit - I have a high waist and long legs and so most trousers are too short in the crotch.

Fair enough to prefer trousers but those reasons are bizarre. I never wear trousers. I walk everywhere ; in bad weather, in Scotland

ClownCore

I am at that stage in life where I am personally a bit tired of it all. There is such a thing as too much choice. I sort of covet the Steve Jobs look {not the person!}, how he basically did away with 'decision fatigue' and chose the same basic crap for eternity. He had the money for Issey Miyake, but I can do something similar at my budget. I don't like much that is out there now, my body type doesn't fit the Toast aesthetic or the High street. I feel a bit lost. I am trying to decide whether to choose skirts or trousers. I am still suffering decision fatigue!

I do like that there are such mixed replies here, it does show that we are all different and that's good.

I was thinking this today ! I’ve change back into to a trouser person! There are so many cool shaped and fits.

age been desperate for new dresses but no luck at all but lots of trousers.

l love a dress and tights in the winter and a pretty summer dress but I am struggling with looking frumpy

I kind of get this and think a lot of new designs are due to cheaper manufacturing and the marketing trap of 'comfort' over design.

I love this silhouette even though it is just an ebay model showing off a skirt. I so miss the flowing lines of older clothes, when the designs curved with the body as opposed to eclipsing it, regardless the BMI. This looks so good to me, but this is so deeply, unequivocally unfashionable now.

Trousers and dress

Work.. Summer
50% dresses
30% trousers
20% skirts or jeans.
Wiinter..
50% trousers
50% jeans.
Home..
Sunmer.. dresses and shorts.
Winter.. trousers and jeans.

that's a good balance!

Never wear skirts. Jeans/trousers and a dress when it's hot (I've worn trousers to weddings - including my own).

It depends on the season. I wear jeans/trousers in winter as it easier, but I love the warmer weather when I live in skirts/dresses. I'm most certainly not a "dressed up" person, I just find skirts and dresses so easy to wear in summer, and it's too hot for jeans/trousers in NZ, for me anyway.

When I still worked I always wore a skirt, I hate most dress trousers!