You don’t have to be as tall as Karlie Kloss to pull off wide-leg trousers (but it helps)
When I write my memoir I’m thinking of calling it How To Survive In Fashion Without The Right Legs. The struggle is real, when the clothes you like all seem to have been designed with Karlie Kloss in mind. Karlie Kloss is six foot, of which substantially more than half is leg. She and I are different species.
This is not a problem unique to me. And neither is it just a miniskirt problem. Fashion’s current challenge to us norms is the wide-leg trouser. Nothing tricky about a wide-leg trouser, you might think – they are comfortable, they cover everything up – but that’s not how it works. You can’t conflate “comfortable” with “easy to wear”. Easy to wear is an outfit in which you can spend the day feeling confident about what you are wearing, not constrained or compromised by your clothes. Comfortable is a bathrobe. Completely different.
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