It's time to alleviate up afterwards years of cutting those all-over angular pants, leggings and super-skinny jeans.
The wide-legged blow is aback — for now. Wide-legged trousers accompany roomy, chichi abundance to all shapes and sizes, and while these styles pop up on the sartorial arena with some regularity, they additionally achromatize out as bound as a single-season bounce bulb.
French artist Paul Poiret is generally accustomed with creating the avant-garde adaptation of wide-legged slacks for women — in his case, he fabricated harem pants — in the aboriginal 1900s based on appearance trends from Asia and the Middle East. Wide-legged trousers after became a admired for the brand of Coco Chanel, Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, and during the aftermost 100 years, they accept had assorted incarnations as palazzo and gaucho pants, culottes, bell-bottoms, flare-legged jeans and pajama pants.
What these pants accept in accepted is they accept added drama, bolt and comfort, and for some, added élan. They are advised to sit aerial or low on the waist and they generally arise belted or buttoned and in a deluge of materials, alignment from cottony to denim.
See the most-read in Life & Appearance this hour >>
"The [wide-legged] pants of today accept a bit added structure, and are produced with thicker bolt — not to acknowledgment how able they accomplish you feel," says fashionista, archetypal and TV personality Olivia Palermo whose new collaborative band with Chelsea28 (now accessible at Nordstrom) showcases the looser option. "They elongate the anatomy and accomplish it so that you arise taller. [They] should be aloof for occasions. They aren't actual applied for every day. [However,] it's a abundant appearance for the able woman on the go and additionally works for a night out."
Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney
Wide legged pants by Stella McCartney.
Wide legged pants by Stella McCartney. (Stella McCartney)
Stella McCartney's blooming wide-legged, high-waisted floral pants accept a brittle front-ironed bend bulge and a blessed bright-green, atramentous and white design. $845, MyTheresa.com.
Asos
Asos
Wide legged pants by Asos.
Wide legged pants by Asos. (Asos)
Asos' washable, mustard, kick-flared, wide-legged pants accept ancillary pockets and a adulatory bifold zip advanced design. $69, US.Asos.com.
Givenchy
Givenchy
Wide legged pants by Givenchy.
Wide legged pants by Givenchy. (Givenchy)
Givenchy's tres-chic anemic blooming wool-blend, full-pleated trousers has a advanced leg, high-rise waist and ancillary button fasten. $2,755, Farfetch.com.
Olivia Palermo Chelsea28
Nordstrom
Olivia Palermo in Chelsea28 advanced legged pants.
Olivia Palermo in Chelsea28 advanced legged pants. (Nordstrom)
Olivia Palermo Chelsea28's baroque fleet wool-blend, wide-legged trousers with advanced pleats and disposable tie belt. $138, Nordstrom.com.
Marni
Marni
Wide legged pants by Marni.
Wide legged pants by Marni. (Marni)
Marni's non-stretch denims with over-sized advanced legs and a bendable denim blanket belt with crabbed pockets and contrasting-colored seams. $680, Marni.com.
Front Row Shop
Front Row Shop
Wide legged pants by Advanced Row Shop.
Wide legged pants by Advanced Row Shop. (Front Row Shop)
Front Row Shop's rolled-hem, baggy-legged woolen, bare biscuit circumscribed pants with aback pockets and zip-front fly. $55, FrontRowShop.com.
XCVI
XCVI
Wide legged pants by XCVI.
Wide legged pants by XCVI. (XCVI)
XCVI's affection full-legged jeans in an acerbic azure band ablution and multi-layered, advanced elasticized waist. $110, XCVI.com.
Clara Sunwoo
Clara Sunwoo
Wide legged pants by Clara SunWoo.
Wide legged pants by Clara SunWoo. (Clara Sunwoo)
Shaped able-bodied for ample women, Clara Sunwoo's ocean breeze blue-and-white palazzo pants can calmly booty you from day to evening. $79, ClaraSunWoo.com.
Escada
Escada's uber-elegant sleeveless, V-necked, leather-belted and wide-legged atramentous stretch-woven jumpsuit can assignment for all shapes and sizes. $1,850, NeimanMarcus.com.
image@latimes.com
