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Archive for the ‘Trousers/Pants’ Category
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
 Jogging pants with heels: you like? As we noted (with no small amount of concern, we might add) earlier this month, the December issue of UK Vogue informs us that sweat pants are THE trousers to be seen in this season, and that every well-dressed woman will be wearing them – not with sneakers, though: with heels.
The image above, from ASOS.com, is the first evidence we’ve found of this “trend” in action, but far be it for us to doubt what Vogue tells us, so we wanted to ask you: what do you think of this look? It’s lounge wear-meets-office-wear, casual-meets-dressy, comfort-meets-formal, er, jogging pants meets stilettos, but do these contradictions make you jump for joy and yell “At last! Now I get to wear my old sweatpants ALL THE TIME and call it ‘fashion’!” or do you just give a small shudder and say, “Only if you paid me, and it would depend how much?”
We know what WE think, but what do you think, ladies and gentlemen of the Fashion Police jury?
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
 Good news, readers! For just £390 / $654 you can look like you’re wearing a saggy pair of shorts and a white t-shirt!
OR, you could… but no. No, that’s just silly. Who would want to go to all of the trouble of just buying a saggy pair of shorts and a plain white t-shirt, and then have to work out how to wear them together when someone has done it for you? OK, sure, you’d save… well, probably around $350, but the fact is, they wouldn’t be DESIGNER saggy shorts and a DESIGNER plain t-shirt, would they? Didn’t think so.
These ones are, and the fact that they happen to be stuck to each other, well, that’s just part of the fun, isn’t it? This is by Alexander Wang, and you can buy it at Net-a-Porter.
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Jeggings. They almost never go down well here at The Fashion Police, and yet, every time we set foot outside the HQ we see lots of people wearing them: often badly, it has to be said. In other words: they’re not going anywhere yet, so we thought it was time to investigate how best to wear them.
Your Style Challenge this week, then, readers, is to use Polyvore to build an outfit around the jeggings shown above. Just to make it even more difficult fun, we’ve selected a pair of acid wash jeggings, too. You can thank us later.
You’ll find the rules of the game under the jump. If you simply want to BUY the jeggings, meanwhile, they’re £18 at New Look.
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
 Sweatpants. They’re not the first things that come to mind when we hear the words “glamour”, or, indeed “sequins”, but those associations were clearly present for the designers at Haute Hippie, who decided that sequin-encrusted sweats were just what the doctor ordered.
They were also present at UK Vogue this month, who say the sweatpant is THE trouser to be seen in at the moment (And not just sequined ones, either), although they must always, always be worn with heel.
We’re surprised to note that we don’t actually hate these, but we can’t imagine wearing them, either. Can you? If so, they’ll cost you a little more than most sweatpants: they’re $295 at Shopbop.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
 Skousers Of all of the stuck-together-clothes, in all the closets, in all the world, we think there should be a special place in the Fashion Police jail for the trousers that are attached to skirts. In short, we hate this look. Because it’s not 1994 any more, you know? And even if it was, why would you do this? Trousers with attached tulip skirt? Really, Martin Margiela?
Such is our dislike of these items, we think they need their own blended name, a la “jeggings” and “shresses”. We think we’re going to call them “Skousers”. Not to be confused with “Scousers”, of course:
 A scouser It’s official, then: we’ve created our very own “blended fashion” word! We feel kind of dirty now, to be honest.
Martin Margiela trousers with attached tulip skirt, £435
Monday, November 9th, 2009
 Looking a bit hippy At long last, fashion designers and retailers seem to have cottoned on to the fact that droopy crotches just ain’t flattering.
So they’ve started to give their garments droopy hips, instead.
* headdesk *
This particular example comes from BooHoo.com, who describe the leggings as “animal print”. At least we can take comfort in the fact that they actually just look plain black, eh? Small mercies, readers: small mercies.
[Thanks to Sarah for the report!]
Monday, November 9th, 2009
 Aww, would you look at that! The orphans from Oliver Twist are all grown up! And doing pretty well, too, by the looks of things, because even although these pants look like they’ve just been dragged from the nearest dumpster, they actually have a combined value of £858 / $1,422.
Makes you wish you’d kept those ancient old gardening trousers now, doesn’t it?
There are people in the world who’d happily pay that much for these, though, and if you’re one of them, they’re available at Yoox.com
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
 Isn't Halloween over now? We’d almost resigned ourselves to the existence of jumpsuits. We’d even come across a few in the course of our police work that – whisper it – we didn’t actually hate.
Then this one came along and set the jumpsuit movement back YEARS as far as we’re concerned. Years. It looks like some kind of Halloween costume to us – or an outfit for the villain in some kind of camp dance show. Imagine the model with a handlebar moustache and you’ll maybe understand what we mean. And now we’ve thought about this jumpsuit for much longer than we’d really like, so let’s say no more about it and simply let the record show that it costs £100 from ASOS.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
It’s funny how your eyes start to adjust to crimes of fashion, isn’t it? A few months ago, something like this denim bodysuit from Miss Selfridge would’ve had us almost falling off our seats in horror, but now that we seem to be living in an 80s fashion hell more or less all the time, when we first laid eyes upon it our first thought wasn’t “Quick! Call out the troops!” but simply, “Now, how on earth would they expect people to wear THAT, then?”
Luckily, though, we didn’t have to wonder for long, because Miss Selfridge have helpfully answered that question for us. You’d wear a studded denim body suit with….
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Whoops! Time to change that diaper again!
They’re doing this deliberately, aren’t they? No one could seriously have thought, “You know what would look great? Bleached denim harem pants! With an ugly elasticated waist! Let’s make it happen!” So we’re working on the assumption that they’re doing it just to annoy us. It’s working, too: seriously, two of our least favourite things EVER – bleached, 80s denim and a saggy crotch – together in one item. We feel like we’re being tortured slowly here. Add in the aforementioned elasticated waist, and we’ve got these on three separate counts.
Bail for these is set at £70. If you want to set them free, you can get them here.
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