What to associate baggy, baggy or palazzo pants with without drowning in clothes?

The most categorical fashion media have already announced the death of slim jeans, especially skinny jeans, a few years ago. This would have given way to deliberately more generous cuts, from mom jeans to baggy trousers, passing through palazzo trousers. Okay, that gives us a nice leg, but what to wear this much wider type of sock with?

As often when it comes to style, there are no rules, other than those of your desires. That said, a few styling tips can help achieve an easy-to-follow and aesthetically flattering silhouette. It’s all about playing the concordance or, on the contrary, the contrasts of the volumes.

Tight top + baggy pants

The first technique is to counterbalance the loose nature of the bottom with an upper much closer to the body. With baggy, baggy or palazzo pants, we can therefore opt for a fitted top. Whether it’s a skinny t-shirt, a long-sleeved ribbed leather knit top, or even a cropped top, t-shirt or even a bra, you are spoiled for choice.

It is clearly the appearance of the heroine of the cartoon Kim possible : baggy cargo pants, which are a style register work clothingpaired with a black turtleneck sweater, worthy of a New Wave intellectual sipping tea at the Café de Flore in a film by François Truffaut or Jean-Luc Godard.

It is also a recurring silhouette in the collections of artistic director Phoebe Philo, both during her years at Chloé and in Céline, and perhaps soon her already announced brand as well. In fact, the greater the contrast in volume, the more we will understand that it is a stylistic choice, and not a problem of size.

loose top + baggy pants

The other option turns out to be completely opposite: we can play the harmony card by adopting such a wide top compared to the bottom. A palazzo or baggy can go great with a fluffy sweater, a particularly airy silk shirt or just an oversized t-shirt. It also works very well with an oversized dress, for example, worn next to the skin, over a tank top or t-shirt.

If you’re afraid of drowning in your clothes, you can help make your silhouette more visually legible by marking your waist with a belt, for example, or even tucking the top into the bottom (just the front might be enough). In fact, the more the volume seems exaggerated, the more you will understand that you did it on purpose, and not that it was a mistake.

5 wide and palazzo trousers to adopt the baggy trend

Front page photo credit: COS; Lafayette Galleries.