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My Unrequited Love - Trousers

Thistle

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See, I love pants. They just don't love me back. They are great for work, let me blend into my male dominated workplace, and they provide an ease that can't be beat.

But, finding ones that fit and flatter, well, that's a HEWI, isn't it? And once you do, off to the tailor to shorten them. And then, you lose or gain just a bit of weight . . . and the fit is all off again, and the hems are too short or long again!!

Pants, where's the love?!? (My skirts are totally cackling evilly, just waiting to replace the pants once it is warm enough. Which it will be. Eventually).

What's your unrequited love?

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Latest reply was from AviaMariah

Ledonna N.

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I here you I try to maintain my lovely size 16/18 figure but, If I walk past sugar there it goes all the alterations for my pants denim down the expensive drain.

My bane seem to be Dresses. Oh how I love them but I have not seen the love returned. I know my perfect one is out there for my price point and my shoulders and my challenging figure.

Oh what dreams may come. I will find the perfect day dress someday. Its almost like finding the perfect partner.

Anonymous

Pants. It will always be pants for the exact reasons you mention.

Suz

(website)

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My unrequited love seems to be mid-weight fabrics of all kinds, outfits that consist of a pair of pants (or dress, or skirt) with a shirt and a jacket as topper, plus shoes and bag. For how many days in any year do I get to dress thus? Possibly 12. Possibly 30. Possibly 5. It all depends on the weather gods.

Meanwhile, I get at least 100 days of skinnies tucked into snow boots.

And 60 or more days where a linen tee shirt feels like too much to wear.

Sal

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Yes me too Thistle. I can't get the waist, butt and hips right, then in combination with the length. I am sure that is why ankle pants have become so popular!!

I won't be updating my classic work trousers this year due to budget, they are a great colour and almost right.....but the length does not work with all my shoes and at certain times of the month they pull across the tummy.

I could help you out Suz, come for a visit down under!

Karie

(website)

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Oh it's pants for me too. They always do this weird smiling thing in the butt. The sides bunch up, the waistband sags down, it's totally hideous. Then, when I FINALLY find a pair that fits correctly, they're too short. GHAH!

Peri

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Dresses for me. I have so much trouble finding one I like, look okay in and feel happy in. Pants are hard too but dresses are a mostly fail so far.

unfrumped

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The perfect trouser is always the Holy Grail.
But dresses are actually harder--I can be in a sea of hundreds of dresses and not one fits/works.

freeda

(website)

Amen sister, just put jeans in place of pants.

I should just move someplace warmer and wear skirts exclusively forever.

Janet

(website)

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Trousers and dresses. Like Karie, when I find a pair of pants that actually fits the hips and thighs of doom without bagging out in the butt and waist, AND the rise is not too high, they're too short in the inseam. And dresses all too often are too big in the top if they fit in the hips, and 90% of the dresses I see that appeal to me are too short for my body and my preferences.

Lucy

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Ah Thistle, more unrequited love with trousers here too. Weird that I can find jeans quite easily, but trousers! I am short and even the petite ranges are still too long in the rise, giving a weird bunching effect that is both uncomfortable and unflattering! After some good finds in the 90s with hipsters, it's been a drought for a long time. A few years ago I stopped bothering - so much time to find the right pair. But every now and then I have a hankering....

Jaime

(website)

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Just for some variety: button down tops. I want to but it is very tricky indeed to not pull, not emphasize what I prefer to obfuscate and not look like a brick in the process.

Anonymous

It's a toss-up between trousers and dresses. I'm too flat-bottomed for trousers. They bag horribly like I'm wearing a dirty diper. Dresses...too big on top if the bottom fits and too short. I'm short waisted too

Angie

(website)

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Probably dresses. I have a hard time filling them out (plus they are often too short for my liking) - and I am sick of fitted sheaths.

AviaMariah

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I have the same issue with trousers but they are what I wear. It seems like I've needed to buy new ones each season the last few years because of baby weight etc. In fact I have a storage box in the back of my closet filled with work trousers that are too small/too large that I am constantly rotating through.