Go a little mad and go w-i-i-i-de!
Get on board with the most flattering and the most fashionable trousers this season, writes Naomi Attwood.
Drainpipe trousers, skinny jeans and flares seem to be on fleek this summer with few other styles available than wide-legs, from luxury labels though to fast fashion retailers.
Specifically, there are plenty of shapes to pick from, but they’re all wide. Baggy isn’t the most apt description; fluid or flowing sum it up far better.
ZARA
The nicest trews are cleverly tailored, certainly at the waist and potentially at the hem so that quantity of fabric is no bar to figure flattery – judiciously nipping in and balancing out. Thus a pair of flowing pants can be as forgiving as an old friend, albeit one you need to watch out for in electric doors and on escalators. Various wide options are: summery culottes, but to feel modern go for slightly stiff, rather than wafty fabric – twill is ideal.
The Fifth at Superbalist
Longer length ones are cool, covering knees or even skimming ankles. Also nice are long, floor-sweeping wide flares, more like an A-line than “fit and flare” flares. Then there are the classic, flannel-type that Oxbridge students might have teamed with their over-long scarves and bicycles. Last, there are the more conceptual, cropped wide legs, not quite culottes but a tailored, almost tapered, “ovoid” trousers, a good option for anyone not blessed with height wanting to indulge in wide-legs.
H&M
Full-on palazzo pants work better on the tall, or with chunky platform sandals, so a cropped but roomy pair could be perfect.