oh gosh - Brenda, after I started following ylf, I had a total melt-down panic attack when I realized that I'd been prancing around in too-short pants for YEARS and YEARS.
I had been perfectly confident in them. It was terribly disconcerting to start looking at my pants and feeling like every single one of them was wrong, wrong, wrong. I started feeling very self-conscious. It was most upsetting!
So here's what I did: I put on all of my pants and checked out which ones could still work with flats (I mostly wear heels, so this was quite the revelation!). The ones that were too short even with flats went into the donation bin.
Then I went out and bought a couple of pairs of pants that work with heels. One pair I thrifted (I am crazy for thrifting too) and the other I totally splurged on - premium denim from Nordstrom's (on sale though!). I also got a pair of $12.99 skinny jeans from TJ Maxx that I can wear with flats OR heels. I feel much better.
I can NOT have my pants literally skimming the ground. Can't have it. They will be ruined in no time and won't throw my money away like that. I HAVE come to the conclusion that I like the way pants look when they are an inch or so off the ground. Take some pics of yourself with PPL (proper pants length) and compare them to pics with a-little-too-short pants and just see what you think.
Sometimes this journey is disconcerting Brenda - I totally feel you on this! I have my own sense of style and my style won't jive with others' styles 100% of the time. I'm totally ok with that. But I feel like I've learned so much here and I really value the opinions of the good folks here. Please know that opinions here are truly offered with love and good intentions and you don't have to agree with them all of the time.
