MY DRESSING ROOM HAS A WHOLE SECTION JUST FOR DENIM

EMMA WORTHINGTON, 41, owns a property company with her husband Rob, 46, and offers style advice via her Instagram @swoon_love. They have two children aged seven and three. She says: MY COLLECTION of jeans stands at 60 pairs. They take up so much space that I keep a third of them in storage with other clothes that I swap around each season. The other 40 take pride of place in my dressing room, with a meticulous filing system so that I can instantly grab whichever pair I want to wear.

They hang neatly on a rail starting with white and ecru jeans on the left, moving through to greys, blues and black.

Baggy and flared styles don’t suit my 5ft 10in, size 8-10 frame, so I tend to wear skinny or straight styles with a high waist to balance out my long torso with my legs.

My favourites cost around €110 from French brand Sezane and have a paper-bag style tie waist. A close second are a €194 straight, mid-wash high rise pair by Agolde, which I bought at Harvey Nichols.

It’s impossible to say how much I’ve spent on jeans in my lifetime, but it will easily be more than €11,000 — my husband will be horrified! I buy between ten and 15 new pairs a year, a third of them designer, which cost around €190, and the rest from the High Street for no more than €50 a pair.

I have an annual clearout, where any jeans that I haven’t worn in the previous 12 months either go to charity, my cousin — who’s the same size as me — or I sell them online if they were expensive.

But, like most women, finding flattering jeans hasn’t always been easy. My biggest bugbear is those that fit perfectly through the leg and hips but not on my waist.

When trying them on, I always do a few squats to make sure they don’t flatten my bum and have just enough give without going baggy.

Although I used to love ripped styles, there was a moment in my late 30s when I started to feel like a sausage with bits of flesh poking out of the holes.

Now, I keep my jeans more classic and ramp up the look with a statement pair of shoes, earrings or a silk blouse.

The most I’ve ever paid for a pair is around €300. But for that price, they have to fit perfectly and look incredible, whether worn with Manolo Blahnik heels and a chic blazer, or trainers and knitwear.