The current fashion often includes pants that pee on the floor. I can appreciate the look, but how do I wear them and keep them clean at the same time? I don’t want to spread the Yuck through my workplace, my favorite restaurant and my house. Is it possible to be stylish and hygienic at the same time? – Donna, Chicago
“Puddle pants”-in being wide puts pants so long that they hit the ground and “pee” around the feet-is a relatively new term for a not particularly new phenomenon. But it sounds so much more exciting and deliberate than just “extra long pants”! And although they may seem to be one of those fashion trends that look more like parody, they actually have a real attraction.
A spur of the Flodigige Broeckend of the 1990s, pee pants became something in themselves a few years ago, partly because they have the very tempting effect to make you look both lanky and casual And As if you have super long legs at the same time (consider them as the cooler versions of bell bottom). Especially in combination with a smaller, more body-skimming top for balance.
Puddle Pants, however, come with two major disadvantages, as you notice: because the hems are so long, they tend to get dirty and sometimes they are also stepped up, which means that they shred faster than normal hems.
What to do?
I asked two of the women I associate the most with the style, Virginia Smith, Vogue’s Global Head of Fashion Network, and Hillary Taymour, the designer of Collina Strada, if they had recommendations. This is what they proposed.
Virginia, who has made something of a personal signature from the pee pants (“I blame my obsession of a few Balenciaga le Dix of Nicolas Ghesquière -pants that I stumbled in Barney about 25 years ago”), admitted that it is really not avoided of the whole point, because the ratings of the pants are.
Yet she also noticed that she generally wore her pee pants “just graze the floor” (jeans that she wears longer are the exception). That means a fairly exact shoe-to-hem planning, but it does avoid the worst of the problem.
Hillary, who makes a puddly loading pants that has become a classic in its kind and that she often wears, also said, “The key is a balance.”
“Embrace the lake aesthetically without leaving it Actually Puddle, “she said. “Increased shoes helps a lot: a thick sole or a small heel can make your zoom float just enough to prevent a disaster.”
However, the two had a few hacks for navigating that difficult situation when the soil inevitably met pants.
“I do a strange small thing that really works,” said Hillary. “I put the hem of my pants under my heel in my shoe while I walk outside. I know it sounds strange, but it happens that they get filthy on the street or the train. Once I get inside, I pull them back and let them drape as they are meant.”
She also added that you can always hold the pants while walking, for a sort of Ironic royal effect, “or, if you know you are going a long distance, even safety pin them a little higher for the journey, then when you arrive.”
If all of that fails, Virginia said, when things get irreparably dirty, she simply resorts to create a new zoom, “a small turn-founder, so that you don’t lose the length.” Think of it when sewing the hand – no splashes are involved.
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