SHANE WATSON: The trousers YOU need to look good at 50: wide legs are back, but don't ever wear THIS popular fabric...
SHANE WATSON: The trousers YOU need to look good at 50: wide legs are back, but don't ever wear THIS popular fabric...
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The first few months of the year may be dark, cold and cash-strapped, but for those of us who are natural Trouser Women, it’s a time to show off. It’s now trouser season all the way to March – no-one is wearing skirts – and the only game in town is how to wear them better.
![[Of the more masculine wide-leg tailored wool trousers with front pleats, the best of the bunch come from Cos (£115, cos.com), not least because they have a button that allows you to adjust them on the waist and wear them higher or lowe]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/26/14/94531825-14326745-image-a-5_1737902203235.jpg)
'There’s only one message when it comes to trousers,' writes Shane watson. 'Go as wide as you can'. I for one could not be happier. I love trousers and never has there been a better time to indulge the Trouser Woman’s fantasies - whether it’s swooshy denim flares or serious Oxford bags, last seen on Katharine Hepburn in the 1940s.
You can go Fashionable Parisienne (slouchy wide blue jeans, a boot with a heel and a trench coat). You can go Seventies redux (wide-leg tailored trousers, a blouse and a sharp-shouldered jacket). You can go Luxe Lady at Leisure (drawstring trousers and a soft sweater) or Metro Cool (leather coat, skinny turtle neck and lean flares). And those are just the headline options.
There’s only one message, go as wide as you can. Those barrel-legged jeans that, three months ago, looked like something only your daughter or Sienna Miller could carry off, are now creeping into ‘safe’ fifty-something wardrobes. They sound oddly unflattering and the way they stand away from the legs in a curving horseshoe shape does not seem designed to do your figure any favours, when we first saw them, we swiftly consigned them to the Not For Grown Ups pile. But, sometimes a look takes a while to percolate and then before you can say ‘corkbed slides, quilted jackets and Mary Janes,’ they’re normal everyday wear.
