Who wears the trousers these days? Everyone, that’s who. Let me tell you a story. Recently I went to the John Lewis showroom, where the creative team were showing their new collection to fashion journalists. Not a dressy do, just a casual 9am coffee. But on the other hand, it’s never going to be completely not a dressy do when the editors from magazines and newspaper style desks all know they are going to be in the same place. It’s the sort of thing for which you definitely think about what you are going to wear, but also don’t want to look like you have spent ages getting really dressed up.
Anyway, I glanced around the room at what people were wearing, and it dawned on me that every single one of the 10 or 12 women present was wearing trousers. Not a dress, not a skirt, not jeans, but trousers. Lots of different kinds of trousers: wide-legged trousers and pleated trousers, cargo pants and carpenter-pocketed ones. Mostly in black/navy/grey, but there were also a couple of white pairs, two with pinstripes and two in red. All different, but all of them definitely trousers.
