Pants have always made it to the key trends season after season, whether cropped, ankle length or any other variation for that matter. This SS15 culottes set forth the edgy chic look. They came in leather, suede, printed and exorbitantly oversized or straight legged. Fashion just reached the helm of comfort with the flowing wide legged baseball loose culottes.
Gone are the days where slim trousers, now we see the streets flooded with women wearing wide legged culottes.As much as we love maneuvering over our all clean white bed the culottes give us the exact same comfort, except they don’t restrict us to wearing them at home. This key comfort statement has become the point of fashion conversation and showcases on the SS15 runway.
Culottes are relaxed with volume and an illusionary resemblance to the A-line skirt slight texture and paired with cropped top or tailored longer-line jacket or a short smart blouse. The term culotte originates from the Victorian Era when women called these pants a divided skirt which hangs like skirt but looked like pants. Breaking free from the notion of long dresses and skirts being the only lady like attire for women culottes was now an option that bridged compromise with function.These culottes came to be developed for horseback riding so that women could accompany men and not need to sit side saddle but wide legged instead.
The word culotte came along from the French translation of its meaning as split riding skirt. The freedom in the garment structure of culottes was to give women the liberty to perform activities such as gardening, cleaning, bike riding, etc while still maintaining her elegance of a pair trousers that looked like a flowing skirt.
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