Hints and tips:
...Throughout my twenties I almost exclusively wore hot pants....
...Consider Jude Law and football scion Calum Best in their navel-grazing V-neck tees, worn with skin-tight leather jackets and All Saints harem pants....
...And for a recent arrival at the Saturday Night Live studio, impish rapper Ice Spice used them to offset her demure beauty with sheer bawdiness: fishnets worn under hot pants with knee-high platform boots...
...I have two on rotation — starting with the Gary from Sweaty Betty, which are slim but not tight and last for years (£90, sweatybetty.com)....
...It’s rather esoteric, of course . . . what does “getting pants” mean? Does he mean “getting pantsed”, as in the thing where a middle-school bully pulls someone’s pants down between classes?...
...They were also turned into bulbous and leggy denim hot pants, or “bubble jeans”, to use Lantink’s description....
...“If I [had] ever got married, I would have worn some fabulous denim outfit, like denim pants and a jacket.”...
...While a 12-year-old wool Nicole Farhi midi skirt, tights and boots feels boring, pairing the skirt with slimline trousers and chunky Grensons adds edge....
...I started wearing Scottish cotton marcels [vests], Agnès b men’s shirts, oversized pants upgraded with a thin red leather belt and sneakers without laces....
...Given that I am typing this while wearing black yoga pants and hiking shoes, I sincerely hope they are right. The writer is the FT’s US financial editor...
...“There is more flexibility in the suit now — it’s not just the old ‘working wardrobe’ of tight pencil skirts and suiting dresses, but also a more masculine approach with fluid trousers, boxy cropped fits...
...At some point we, as a culture, decided that tight trousers were a youthful, contemporary look. Perhaps they are....
...Most items of clothing are adaptable, she maintains: a blazer can be worn with running tights to travel to the gym; there’s no need for a special hoodie....
...David Hutt’s designs — skirts, frocks, flowing palazzo pants — enhance the dance and help create attractive stage pictures, backed by Suzette Le Sueur’s unsettling projections of leafless leadwood trees....
...In previous collections, she’s shown city-boy shirts cut so tight it was as if they were bursting at the buttons....
...“My waistband was digging in, my jacket was tight, and the aircon on the plane was freezing. I thought, why can’t I be in my yogawear?”...
...“I’ve never come home and said, ‘Oh I wish I had put long pants on.’”...
...Andy Warhol once said, “I want to die with my blue jeans on,” and while I don’t think he meant this to happen instantly, feeling I might spontaneously keel over in my tight, high-waisted denim was a trigger...
...So, you know, if somebody was doing something nefarious, you could potentially cover it up by going to the banks and lenders and, you know, the credit checks weren’t as tight....
...Her head is flung back, her eyes shut tight. “Who can stop the Lord Almighty?” she belts....
...Prudence is not the heroine and is a desperate husband hunter; her tight corset is a metaphor for the societal ideals she is conforming to....
...In March, Rihanna chose a custom-made Coperni long-sleeved silver crop top to celebrate her baby bump, and Kylie Jenner made her red carpet debut after having her second child in a tight-fitting latex AW22...
...I speak here of the skipped breakfasts and frantic searches for presentable but too-tight clothes needed for the rush for an overpriced seat on a jampacked train....
...Men wearing tight pants and pads that amplify their muscles launch a ball from under their groins, throw themselves on to each other in giant piles, and then slap each others’ bums and enjoy full body embraces...
...And I wouldn’t mind a pair of Nicolas Ghesquière’s cargo pants, circa 2002, from his Balenciaga heyday....
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