‘At first I thought all the models had had growth spurts since their last fittings, and then realised that no, the trousers were meant to look like that’
Trousers that are too short for you are the next big thing; they’ve got a name and everything. What I’m wearing here is a High Tide Hemline. Or a Cropped Flare. Or an Overgrown Bermuda. OK, I made that last one up, but the first two are real, as is this trend.
The too-short trouser looks pretty out-there, no doubt about that. And yet the high-tide hemline is just the natural next step in a direction trouser lengths have been headed for years. Do you remember when we bought trousers extra long, so that when you wore them over heels, they almost touched the floor? Undeniably effective at making you look super-leggy, but a practical headache in that you needed a different pair of trousers for each heel height, and you couldn’t stash flats in your bag to walk home in without trashing the bottom two inches of your strides. By last year it was all about trousers that ended bang on your ankle bone, and that sliver of skin that flashed between the turn-up of your jeans and trainers was a fashion erogenous zone for a few months. And then the catwalk shows for this season happened, and at first I thought all the models had had growth spurts since their last fittings, and then realised that no, the trousers were meant to look like that, ending an awkward, chilly two inches north of where you’d expect them to.
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