are Linen trousers a disaster for getting overweight

[SuSylvester]

are they TOO forgiving? are they the jeggings of the summer season - do you get them as you know they will give and therefore put up with an increasing wasitband?

Mil going on and on about linen trousers and I thought - its only beaucse they GIVE

who cares, they're great for summer - i live in them usually

Ha,I never thought that way about jeggings but you're right you know!

So they encourage you to be a bit less circumspect about what you eat?

Yes And tunics are the same

deffo
that is why i started the diet
noddy sai" they make you fat"
so tried on jeans and UH OH
still love hteir LOOK though.

I keep a pair of very old jeans in cupboard and try on occasinoally. If they are a bit tight,I know it's time to stop troughing.

Yes, linen very stretchy.I have just dispayed my knickers to about 30 open mouthed Bangladeshi neighbours as my newish pair more or less fell down.They were snug in t' shop.

I think if you like a particular fashion thing that really needs you to be in quite good shape then if you are wearing long things and scarves and bum hiding cardies etc eventually you cover the very thing you liked about it and it loses its 'look' iygwim

yes
i am SICK of seeing arse cracks today
and not just from people who mihgt not knwo better

BIG middle class rugby ones

EW EW

BUT if you have been wearing them and then try them on when thinner they look so much better and you won't want to wear them as fat hiders more as fashion.

Never thought about the give in linen trousers! I certainly don't buy mine with that in mind, I just love them for summer.

I think you are definitely onto something - especially the drawstring waist ones. But I don't do linen trousers really.

However I notice I eat less/more restrained on the days I am wearing my 'thin' jeans.

Oh yes, drawstring ones are a bit like tracky bottoms in that respect, I stick to the smarter cut.

yes
mil said " do you like linen" as if its a recent discovery

I thought linen trousers were ment to be baggy and not stretch at all, but then I'm no fashion guru.
I do like them for the summer, in fact I've just bought 2 pairs from primark £6 each (bargain)

Please don't say you bought the white Primark ones, mummyloveslucy?! They are the most see through ever, I always buy lined White linen or those with big pockets on the bum.

They aren't stretchy as such, but there is 'give' as you wear throughout the day. I always buy longer than I need too because they shrink like hell in the wash, over time.

I wsa thinking about this 'nobody tells you you're getting fat'
I told dh to tell me-he refuses

I blame him entirely for my gut

No! I bought navy and brown.

Especially if you get ones from Next. I spent weeks last summer thinking I had miraculously lost pounds as they were so slack ... then tried my jeans on Mine are more comfy than my pyjamas now!!

In the book 'Fat Land' Greg Critzer blames loose linen trousers (among other things like big restaurant chairs) for the rise in obesity in America.

no youa re kidding?

I blame leggins.

yes, I remember that from Fat Land ... also that more sizes are available so you;re never stuck for something to wear ... you'd not have got XXXL in the menswear dept 30 odd years ago - now, you get big, you go up a size, no biggie.

TBH ... and sorry to those who own them ... I think linen trousers are a disaster, full stop.

FFF - I think hhe may be right!
I have some lvoely red linen crops that start the day off snug, by the time I leave work I am hoiking them up with bulldog grips!

my size 10 Next ones fitted me through most of my last pregnancy

i think they are a cliche
had a god pair that were good for work as i inhabit a NIssen hut atm- freezing then boiling

I never wear linen trousers because they stretch, drives me nuts and not a good look !