Forget jeans – trousers have got their mojo back
For a good decade or so back there, it seemed like jeans had killed off trousers. First, the dark skinny jean replaced the black trouser as the goes‑with‑anything mainstay of getting dressed. Then white jeans became a summer daytime staple and chinos and palazzo pants went out of the window. Different denim silhouettes – low‑rise or high-waisted, mom or dad jeans, balloon-leg or carrot-shape – came to define the shape of our outfits. Somewhere along the line, trousers lost their mojo. They became what you wore to work when you didn’t feel like wearing something jazzier, like a dress.
But after a year of sweatpants, trousers are back. With their stiff denim, metal buttons and rigid waistbands, jeans are frankly too much of a shock to the system, when you have acclimatised to jersey and drawstring. Changing from a tracksuit to jeans feels like stepping out of jimjams into a suit of armour. And then there’s the fact that dressing for the office is an unfamiliar, almost exotic look for many of us, at this point. Work trousers? Exciting.
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