Ornella - First. You are being too hard on yourself. You could wear a sack and still look good :). The rolled jeans may not be your fabbest outfit ever .... BUT .. It is not anywhere close to frumpy either! You have legs that can pull off any length of pants IMO.

I love the black jeans full length, with the extra scrunch ... You know ...This rolling thing ... I find it's overdone. I get frustrated at times trying to roll every single pant only to realize it looked better unrolled. Not every jeans needs to be rolled you know ;). If you do wish to roll, I agree with Inge on a wider one. Also, I think it could work well with a little skin show. May be you could try it and post some pictures before going the tapering route?

Cool vest BTW

Hi Ornella, you look great, I've always admired your classic minimal style. I prefer the unrolled pant leg, it better suits your uncomplicated sleek style.

As for the sweater, I like it on you a lot. I think its length, style and color are quite perfect on you. As far as the fabric goes, is it completely acrylic or a blend? Blends can be quite fine. I do allow myself lower quality things, as I don't keep a minimal closet, rather try to practice one in, one out. If it only lasts one season, and I hadn't paid much for it to begin with, it's really easy to let it go when I feel done with the item. In fact that is what I like about lower to middle range things, I don't feel as committed and it's easy to let go.

So now you see both sides of the argument, as I do see Claire's point as well.

Great to see you Ornella, unfortunately I missed your previous threads, so went back and read them now! Sorry for the troubles in the schoolyard, but You are a great parent and hope it will be all sorted now you have spoken to the teacher and DS will forget the not so cheerie happenings asap. Am also excited to hear you'll go back for work! Did you interviewed already? Wish you all the good luck with your actual projects you have in your life (DS, carrer &new house), it's gotta be a busy but rewarding end of year for you.

Now, about the business. I can understand your aversion to rolled hems, but actually I like them in nr.1 quite a lot! Sorry it made you feel that frumpy, it's not at all to my eyes, but it really depends on how you feel. Not all the panst have to be rolled up, you know. If you don't like to roll then don't roll, it's that simple. Thus, will be curious how do you fell the rolls, trying again when tappered a bit more on the legs. I am also on the fence with straight legs, bootcuts feeling odd and never ever found real BF jeans. So, I rolled up my relaxed skinnies instead, and loved them dearly. So you can experiment some further.

I like the sweater. With that curvy it is not too short but I cannot feel the quality, so you'll surelly know better if will do the work even if for only a season or not.

The puffer vest is awesome. Curious how will look like over your leather jacket. Great ideea, with my apple tendencies it never occured me to do that:-).

Hello lovely! Nice to see you. I see that you've already gotten a lot of good advice, but wanted to chime my own two cents on the pants.

I soooo feel you on straight legs. I also strongly dislike how I look in them, and generally refuse to wear them. That said, my favorite BF jeans are sized up straight legs and the way I deal with the roll is to peg-roll (where you fold either the side or back over a bit, and THEN roll over the top. Examples of mine: 1 | 2 | 3). Regarding your particular roll, I think the volume of it is too much, as in, it is sticking out from you legs too far out. So either make the roll longer vertically so you don't need as much fabric, or roll it lower to do a mix of roll/scrunch (more examples of mine: 1 | 2) and wear with a low contrast shoe/bootie.

Thanks everyone.

MsKatieKat :: I'm happy my words resonated with you, I always wonder whether I'm rumbling too much about certain wardrobe issues and if my realisations make sense to anyone else.

The outcome & learnings from this thread are:

1. The black jeans will be tapered. Bigger fold just doesn't work for me and I won't post photos as I'm not seeking feedback for that - it simply is not me, as this moment in time. In the future - who knows.

2. I have realised that no matter how I want to wear my jeans, they have to be of the right length for me. I actually have another pair of straight jeans, my favourite white pair, which I peg often. But they are 2" longer, so there is room for crisp fold. With the black pair from this thread, I can't achieve the same effect because there is not enough length to achieve the neat fold. This realisation bombs my hopes that I may get away with shorter jeans in some styles, so folding or no folding - yes, MsKatieKat - I need the length.

3. The grey sweater stays. It does not cling much to my skinnies, which have smoother surface than the black pair, hubby gave it (reluctant, but still) pass, and I have in the meantime realised I desperately needed another fluid top. It matches or works great with a wide range of my scarves too. I expect one winter from it and know I'll have fun while playing with the hole filler until better version comes my way.

Sounds like you worked out a good solution for yourself. I'm sure you'll have fun wearing the pullover this winter. And I understand the need to taper the pants, I think you'll enjoy wearing them so much more afterwards!