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Tummy v. trousers

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If you are not a young woman anymore, if your tummy isn’t flat anymore, this is the post for you. I used to have one of those tummies my friend said wasn’t flat, it went in!!! Good old days, when you think you are far from perfect and you are sooo wrong. Than, one day, you decide to have kids…

C-section… and your tummy is not the same anymore and never will be. No matter how much you exercise. You are stuck with that little bulge, just above the cut… with the years, fat accumulates and there you are, you have a belly!

Well, I have the right pair of trousers. Perhaps you already know it but I only discovered it recently and I thought I would share it with the women like me, who are now far from perfect (this time for real) and are having trouble hiding the extras!

I have been wearing low waisted trousers with no pleats for years now. They are so comfy. I thought I was never going to wear this high-waisted trousers trend again… until not long ago. I was in COS and I saw them…

COS RELAXED PLEATED TROUSERS navy detail

COS RELAXED PLEATED TROUSERS navy detail

I tried them on, it was love at first sight!

COS RELAXED PLEATED TROUSERS navy

COS RELAXED PLEATED TROUSERS navy

 

This is why:

  1. the waist is half way between high and low, that means it sits half way on your “extra” bit. Had it been just above, it would have accentuated it, the same under it.
  2. there are pleats. Pleats hide. Pleats are supposed to make the trousers look wider in that exact point.
  3. the leg is wide at the top (so if by any chance!! you have a little extra there as well…) and narrow at the bottom, making you look like your legs are really thin and the width is the trousers and the trousers only!
  4. and last, they are ankle length, making you look taller as well!!

 

My husband doesn’t actually like them much, but hey! I have always thought, as long as you feel you look good, everybody else will too!!

Oh dear, such a long post about one pair of trousers…I know, it’s just I am really excited, feels like I’ve had plastic surgery, only without all the trouble/pain/cost/etc. The dream obviously ends abruptly when you take them off…

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Always add a third colour, sometimes a fourth!

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My question is, when you decide what to wear, how many colours do you go for? If you do, that is, decide that way… There was a time when one was supposed to wear two colours in an outfit. That was very difficult, too many shades ( and one couldn’t wear two different ones, oh no, that wasn’t done!!!), but that’s how it was. Now things seem much more relaxed and one can just about do anything one likes, with taste of course!

I reckon though, the best looks always have at least three colours… Your first thought I would guess is: complicated! It isn’t. Provided you know your style and your colours and have built your wardrobe around this, everything kind of falls together by itself. My clothes tend to be black, beige, white, grey, blue, burgundy, etc. I think you get the picture! ( and if you don’t they are just above…) I have a few items in brighter colours or pattered, but not many. Well, all the plain colours basically go together, don’t they? That means I don’t really need to think about coordinating them, do I ? Then, if I want, I can sometimes add to those one “busy” piece. My outfit is done!

A few examples:

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