February 27th, 2007
Crime of Fashion: Harem Pants from La Redoute
Stop! Hammer time!
La Redoute say: “You’ll love the pretty loose fit created by a deep elasticated waistband accentuated by little gathers at the waist front and back.”
The Fashion Police say: “Are you shitting us? These are HAMMER PANTS. HA.MMER. PANTS. And if Hammer looked like a baby with a full nappy in them, hey, guess what? We would too! We don’t want to have to speak to you about this again, La Redoute. Wait a minute, though – what’s this?
My eyes! My eyes! Please, someone – show me the figure that would be flattered by these. Show me the person that wouldn’t look like a giant toddler in them, and I will show you a fortunate woman indeed.
And the real kicker? They’re expecting us to pay £69 to look like this…
looks really awful!!!
If anyone reallllly likes the look of that second pair…you can get them cheaper from any good Tribal-style bellydance costume supplier. (I have a few pairs. I wear them…for dance. Not out in public for no reason at all.)
Hilarious! I thought La Redoute had more sense than this. By the way, the New York Times Style Magazine’s spring fashion issue had a great little feature on the (attempted) revival of harem pants.
omg! i’m from argentina and lots of girls use the ones in the first photo… even in winter… they’re horrible!! and most of the girls use them with sporty trainers…
Oh, my God! I don’t even know what the hell that is. It looks like a body could fit in them! When I saw the green sparkly ones, they kinda reminded me of a geenie.
The pants shown are vile, but I have a pair I picked up on holiday that *are* flattering, though I am a size 8 (us 6/4). I don’t think you need to be that thin for them, just choose a pair that look more like a skirt than a pair of weird-ass pants!
Harem pants look awesome, especially if you diet ;]
omg. i am egyptian girl from cairo , and the arabs are used to wear thes pants from about 1000 year ,so thes is an arab’s fashion style and we are here in egypt starting to use these pants again , it’s so nice and we loved it