To keep or not to keep bootleg and flared trousers jeans

Bootcut trousers and jeans are now a classic style - I have two lovely pairs of bootcut jeans and a couple of pairs of smart bootcut trousers, I almost always wear bootcut jeans and trousers. I'm 5'3" and a size 18 and I think they make my legs look longer, not to mention the shapewear jeans are really handy for taming the muffin top

“My bad “ I think Bbevan
I have PM’d you to apologise ???

BBbevan Please stay and enjoy the thread. I have pmd you.

I'm not worried about mine going out of fashion because I've never been in fashion.

Thanks Callistemon

If it's the post I'm thinking of, it doesn't read as hurtful, BBbevan, just a bit jokey.
btw, I had a 20% off voucher for M&S this morning featuring tight jeans and wondered if that meant they were still in fashion or that they have huge stocks to get rid of fast!

Isn’t it funny that when a poster you admire makes a negative remark about your own post., that you feel quite hurt. Shan’t bother with this thread anymore

If you don't want to wear them anymore give them to the charity shop. I am loking for 70,s clothes at the moment for a party and our local charity shop has a vintage section.

I only have bootcut at the moment. I do love straight but have another 2.5st to go before they'll be ok on me.

I'll never go back to flares as I'm not so keen but each to his/her own

My chubby friend looks so much slimmer in her straight jeans and her legs look longer. She’s ditching all her bootlegs.

Banging my head

Having caught one foot in a pair of baggy PJ s and ending upmacross the room banging my on door , I’m sticking with skinnies or narrow straight legs!

I can't even begin to consider anything other than skinnies for the time being. Until it stops raining my main criteria is whether I can just slip into my wellies wearing them.

Oops oh dear??‍♀️ My post was meant for colliemum

Should be an easy one for you Laurensnan. A shop I always found something in when living in southern France, Massimo Dutti. I am now back living in Glasgow and we have one in town. On line too if they still have them. Good,luck

I only wear bootleg and they are still sold everywhere so must still be 'in'. I am average size but have flabby knees and calves so skinny jeans or leggings horrify me ?. Boot leg jeans make my legs look less bulky.

@Kalu, wax-coated jeans sound interesting. Lots of wind here in south-west France - where do you get them from?

The dress trousers I only occasionally wear now are all straight leg and that will have to do me. I only ever wear flats with trousers so boot legs, I don’t think, would work without a small heel. Something less to worry about ?

I do agree though with the wear what you are comfortable wearing, regardless of what is fashionable at any given time.

I've given away so many clothes, hardly worn, over the years only to find they come back into fashion and I could have kicked myself! The only advice I'd give is, if something suits you and you have the space for it then hold onto it.

I'd cut them up for sewing or patchwork projects, no matter if they're coming back into fashion. I don't think they're flattering to we short-arses I'm afraid, Merlot especially as I'm carrying extra weight now.
I may have worn them when I was young and daft but as far as I'm concerned when a fashion has gone, it's gone and I don't want to repeat myself.
I hope I'm reasonably stylish without following fashion.

Keep what suits you and what you feel happy in, but right now any shape jeans/ trousers are in height street shops, so whatever you choose will be ok.

I wear what I feel comfy in. Both bootleg and skinny. Not bothered about fashion as it comes and goes like the wind.

I agree with Merlot gran and BlueBelle and no doubt others who have posted .
Bootleg jeans are the most flattering .
I only wear them.
Who cares about fashion.
I would rather look good.

If you like them, they look flattering on you, and you feel comfortable and confident in them then keep them. Be your own person and wear what makes you happy.

I've recently sorted my wardrobe and decided I could no longer wear baggy trousers, so I got the sewing machine out and tapered several pairs by using a straight leg pair as a template. Now I don't feel quite so frumpy and only have usable things in the cupboard, instead of saving things just in case they come back in fashion. Quite chuffed with myself.