Harem Pants, the 2009 version

The sarouel has been overly present these last few seasons on the catwalk and are becomic one of the items to have for the Summer to come. It is not too expensive and oh-so trendy, therefore more and more wearable! Chloé, Etro, but also Just Cavalli have given into temtation too and designed sarouels for their Spring-Summer 09' collections. It has now become an obvious fact: the sarouel will be an essential for any of our summery silhouettes.
Each catwalk show has designed its own version and the piece of clothing is very quickly becoming incontrovertible. Most of the time it is flowing, gathered at the waist, with rounded sides.
Mac Gibbon's Chloé's version is quite chic and enhanced by a tailored, hemstitched top, while Ralph Lauren chose the casual safari look. Both of them being at the extreme opposite in the other in terms of style! The only one that should be forever banished from any wardrobe is the bermuda shorts version! It'll only make any woman look like a big bag.Ralph Lauren's and McQueen's versions shouldn't be kept or even bought at all! The oversized version can create a debate too and fashionistas will have to face the dilemma: honour the trend or use reason and therefore abadon the idea of a very unflattering behind!
It is quite easy to see the 'crisis' women are living at the moment, just pay a visit to any big brand shop near you, look at women trying them on while their brother/boyfriend/husband/fashion ignorant will tell them that fashion stops where absurdity starts (this is a French expression but I'm sure anyone can understand!).
Still, we are brought to ask ourselves: is he the lucid one of the two, when we are blinded by Style.com's silhouettes? Very often disconnected from any fashion trend, the man in your life can have a healthier view on things, simply based on what suits and flatters us or not. Even we can admit that you need a bit of time to adapt yourself, as much the mind as the body (!) to a pair of sarouel as when you havre a front-view it can give our body an elegant shape, while looking at it from the back questions this...

There are therefore a few rules to follow to reconcile seduction with this hype/trendy impulse:
- If you are not a 1.80m Swedish model, the sarouel should always be worn with high heels!
- A structured top is the right thing to wear, not a floaty one!
- Or for a casual chic look, you could wear high-waisted harem pants with a shirt (put inside the pants)
- YSL's jumpsuit sarouel should be avoided by each and everyone of us, this version is quite honestly simply too hardcore!
- False silk is a No-Go!