Take A Walk On The Wide Side

“Just as you’ve come around to squeezing your rippling thighs into a pair of skinny jeans, you find yourself matching some tapered chinos with a tweed blazer instead.“

In exactly the same way the bootcut gave way to the skinny, which made space for the chino and corduroy (all in the space of half a decade), when it comes to men’s trousers, it’s safe to say that trends are about as sacred as tainted holy water.

Admit it, just when you finally came around to the idea of squeezing your rippling thighs into a pair of pipe-cleaner skinny jeans, you found yourself burning them along with your Kings of Leon albums, matching some tapered chinos with a tweed blazer instead.

And trailing in the wake of the giant denim-destroying conquest of brightly coloured slim-leg chinos, is the altogether different wide leg trouser.

A catwalk staple of 2012, expect to see your most-loved retailer stocking a range of wide leg pants this year. But, we know, you’ve been burned with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it trends before, right? Just in case you’re worried whether you should write off the wide leg or embrace this loose-fitting fad, we sought the advice of AskMen’s fashionista pal, Liberty’s Stephen Ayres. 

Whatever your decision, just make sure those spray-on skinnies stay firmly in that bin bag at the back of your wardrobe. The world’s not quite ready to see you in those again, are they? Especially not after last night’s mixed grill excess at the Sports bar…