palazzo pants, but it’s much more evocative and exciting to go straight for the Katharine Hepburn trouser, a term that captures not just a silhouette but an attitude to wearing that silhouette, too – we’re talking nonchalant glamour, fluid lines and a look for which the word ‘louche’ could have been invented.Hepburn was a devoted trouser-wearer in a world where women were expected to stick to skirts and dresses.
According to one of the tailors who created the styles she loved, she’d order them three sizes too big so that they ‘billowed like ship’s sails as she walked’.
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