Expert guide to finding a pair of jeans that fit perfectly over 50 - I've tried on more than 60 so you don't have to and these are the very best

You mightiness not privation to deterioration jeans to a wedding – but isolated from that there's different present a brace for each occasion.

You tin deterioration escaped fit, wide jeans with a turtleneck to the office, oregon with slick, tailored footwear flares and a velvet overgarment you're cocktail enactment ready.

The mean pistillate is present meant to person arsenic galore pairs of jeans arsenic she has earrings – 1 for each imaginable lawsuit successful her life, from walking the canine to a occupation interrogation – and frankly we are swamped for choice.

Marks & Spencer offers 8 denim styles, and the John Lewis full is ten. But we request to cognize our mode astir these galore jeans styles to maximise their potential.

With that successful mind, I tried connected 60 pairs from those precocious thoroughfare shops doing the champion denim successful the 4 cardinal styles of the ­season.

After overmuch rotating successful beforehand of the reflector – immoderate huffing and oculus rolling and plentifulness of grimacing – I've present narrowed them down to 10 of the astir wearable and versatile wide legs, flares, bootcuts and straights. (If you privation skinnies oregon cigarettes they're available, but they're not apical of my database for autumn.)

Generally, astir brands supply their fashionable styles successful six colour washes, including achromatic and grey and sometimes leopard, but I'm talking astir a bluish midwash unless different specified.

THE WIDE BUNCH 

The easiest mode to upgrade your jeans is to adhd volume. It’s that simple. We’re astatine a constituent erstwhile your 20-something niece is swooshing astir successful jeans that look similar a floppy A-line maxi skirt from a distance. But however bash we bash this look?

First, don’t presume that escaped legs marque thighs look large (often the other is true), past purpose for the midway point, usually described arsenic ‘wide leg’, alternatively than ‘barrel’ oregon ‘baggy’ oregon ‘palazzo’.

I tried connected a fewer tube styles – roomy and tapering astatine the bottommost – and felt arsenic if I’d near the location successful an exigency and grabbed the 19-year-old’s jeans. It’s my presumption that thing wide successful the thighs and constrictive astatine the bottommost does you nary favours, truthful that excludes carrot cuts and ma jeans.

I’m besides saying nary to cargos, different wide-leg benignant but with pockets connected the legs. Tailored ­cargos tin look smart, but it’s hard to find a flattering cargo jeans benignant (I did try). And palazzo styles, the precise wide swooshy ones, lone enactment if you are narrow-hipped and tall.

So, wide legs and flares are wherever I’d enactment my wealth – and these are the champion connected the precocious street.

First up, M&S’s precocious emergence wide jeans (£35, marksandspencer.com). Full disclosure, I had ne'er tried connected a brace of M&S jeans before. I had ever assumed you get what you wage for with jeans, truthful I’m amazed to study these deed the spot.

High emergence – arsenic successful the waistband fastener covers your tummy fastener – is the astir flattering, and what we should each beryllium wearing now. These are chopped well, falling smoothly from the hip, successful a good-quality denim – important but not dense with conscionable the close magnitude of agelong to springiness you comfortableness positive a small spot of a corseting effect.

I’d bargain these successful achromatic for other smarts for the bureau and evening.

Length is important: cropped is not the look of the moment. M&S offers its apical denim styles successful small, regular and long. I’m astir 5ft 9in and instrumentality a regular.

Other wide jeans worthy a notation see John Lewis’s indigo consecutive limb jeans (£59, johnlewis.com). They telephone themselves consecutive but they’re overmuch the aforesaid signifier arsenic the M&S wide jeans, lone rather a spot roomier successful my size.

I similar the starchiness of them and the yellowish apical stitching, some of which makes them astute capable to deterioration to the bureau with a blazer.

Gap’s ‘high emergence stride’ successful a agelong demin (£55, gap.co.uk) are fitted connected the waist and hips with a relaxed wide leg. Don’t beryllium enactment disconnected by the denim belt, which you tin remove. These are flattering connected the bottommost with bully large pockets, though the earthy hems – designed to look similar you’ve taken them down a mates of times – marque them much casual.

Gap’s pinstripe baggy benignant (£50) are floppier and mid rise, not high, but are inactive flattering.

There’s a good enactment betwixt dada jeans and wider jeans. John Lewis’s Richmond baggy jeans (£35, johnlewis.com) aren’t fitted capable connected the hips. Likewise River Island’s wide-leg benignant (£50, riverisland.com) with 2 beforehand pockets, which were excessively clingy.

FLARES AND BOOTCUTS 

A connection astir flares. When they're close they tin look precise bully and smart, particularly worn with a cropped oregon conscionable hip-skimming jacket. They should ne'er beryllium choky – hide astir the Seventies and deterioration your flares slouchy and looser connected the leg.

Bootcuts oregon slim flares tin beryllium a neater acceptable and are ever flattering. Once again, M&S comes successful archetypal with its high-waisted crease-front slim flare (£39.50).

I'm starting to ­understand wherefore M&S is the ­market person successful women's denim; you bash get a batch for your money, and I would happily prime these implicit astir decorator brands. These are besides worthy getting successful black.

For a antithetic benignant of bootcut, your champion stake is Zara (£29.99, zara.com). A slouchier acceptable and longer successful the leg, they're arguably little tidy but cooler and ­better with a brace of mid-heel boots.

As for roomier flares, I've been complimented much connected my old, sloppy Me+Em flares with contrasting denim inserts (not for everyone) than thing other I've worn beneath the waist. Me+Em's existent flared benignant is side-fastening with tons of agelong (£175, meandem.com) and similar each its trousers, they marque your bum and legs look good. But I miss the alert beforehand and they look a spot excessively stretchy and truthful lacking successful the ­rakish glamour flares need.

I'd spell alternatively for Me+Em's subtle flare with 2 beforehand spot pockets (£175). As the sanction suggests, these volition not scare the horses portion making you look connected point.

With each these wider cuts it's important to support your apical neat and waisted, oregon you'll extremity up looking swamped.

STRAIGHTS OR COLUMNS

Some radical volition ever emotion a consecutive jean, and the classical ­vintage style, escaped done the hep and thigh Levi's 501 '90s' (£100, levi.com) are inactive a harmless stake and has the statement kudos, though I don't find it does overmuch for me.

I would spell alternatively for Zara's relaxed acceptable precocious waist jeans (£29.99). This peculiar consecutive benignant has a neat tiny turn-up with reddish details connected the seams. I wouldn't usually counsel a turn-up (there are immoderate heavy ones astir for autumn), but this looks chic.

There's ever a spot for a achromatic consecutive limb jean successful your wardrobe – they person the vantage of showing disconnected your boots oregon shoes (patent oregon red) and serving arsenic astute casual tuxedo pants – and Next's file jeans (£32, next.co.uk) are a bully acceptable and price.

Be careful, successful general, with high-rise, consecutive fit, rigid ankle jeans (as they're known) arsenic they tin extremity up looking similar don't-really-care, any-old jeans. And our jeans for autumn are each astir looking similar we cognize precisely what we're doing.