I get very upset (to the point of tears) when trying to buy trousers.  How difficult can it be?  There is only one category of jeans that I have found (in the world) which fit me.  They are the NEXT boyfriend fit in size 10 long.  Yes, they are a little big on the waist and back and a little snug around the thighs when you first wear them and a teeny bit long (but regulars are a teeny bit short) but they do at least go on.

What has happened to the shape of trousers? Is it just me?  My problem is that I am not an english apple shape (slim legs, any weight goes on the belly, slim frame), I am a pear.  I have a significant bum, hips and thighs and a small waist.  This shape is not allowed in trouserville.

I went to the Swindon outlet centre the other week hoping to find one pair of jeans that would fit.  I must have tried on 11 pairs in different shops (Levi’s, Crew, etc etc) and I couldn’t get a single pair over my knees, or if they did go over my knees there was no room for a bottom and certainly not to do them up.  Even if I had tried a size 18, they would not have fit.  Every cut, every style.  I kept looking at the size 10 jeans I was wearing and thinking “surely I cannot have put on this much weight?!”  (This just a day or so after my Grandma giving me her ritual speech about how much I am ‘filling out’).  I was ready to cry and give up, so I went to NEXT to Nothing and bought two pairs of Boyfriend, 10L.  They fit perfectly (apart from the slightly too big waist etc).  What on earth will I do if NEXT stop making these?!  Please can people make trousers with legs and bums again?