And since wide leg jeans can be knee-length, just like culottes, aren't culottes just wide leg jeans marketed as something totally different?
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With styles ranging from relaxed khaki culottes to dressy pleated culottes, the Duchess has quite a few different versions of the trendy trousers in her closet.
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Would you like to look at some culottes or something?
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Yeah, and that's ... You're not making a big bet on culottes!
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The sans-culottes ("those without knee breeches") regularly donned the cap.
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Nothing says obsession like having eight pairs of cord overalls and culottes.
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For much of the film, she wears wide culottes and a sweater.
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As far as bottoms go, culottes sort of fall halfway between everything.
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But, as we've proclaimed time and time again, culottes are infinitely versatile.
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Last summer, for example, I bought a pair of navy Céline culottes.
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Lately, you may have found yourself thinking, Wait, culottes are sticking around?
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Models in glinting tweed culottes shot through with bronze and draped satin frocks.
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The world is divided on plenty of topics: Soul Cycle, peanut butter, culottes.
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I might even try on a pair of jean culottes — anything can happen.
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The insurgents have gone down in history as "without breeches," or sans-culottes.
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Or an iridescent metallic blazer over a long beige turtleneck and cropped bronze culottes.
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At the 2018 Legacy Awards, Porter wore pinstripe culottes and a jacket with dramatic sleeves.
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No. But leggings aren't underwear, either, nor are they tights, pantyhose, culottes, trousers, or joggers.
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The three-piece ensemble was comprised of a collared shirt, matching blazer, and red culottes.
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The model's wide-legged culottes and crocodile-printed handbag are very on-trend right now.
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You can count such transcendent wardrobe totems on one hand: the Sans-culottes, the Brownshirts.
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Dress culottes, you could call them, made by Comme des Garçons, and also beautifully lined.
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Look for culottes or palazzo pants in light fabrics such as silk and airy cuts.
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I know what you're thinking: why wear wide leg jeans when I can just wear culottes?
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Porter opted for a pop of color with his orange jacket, black culottes, and gray tights.
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That's what's great about jeans; dark wash skinnies, two-toned culottes, frayed hems...they're all timeless.
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Forget mum jeans, it's all about the well-cut culottes paired with a floral print top.
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Kate Middleton dressed casual for fall in a pair of $108 khaki Jigsaw culottes on Wednesday.
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Par en Par hand-spun cotton robe, $218; organic cotton waist-tie culottes, $168; at parenpar.com.
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France is offering its periodic re-enactment of its Revolution, with gilets jaunes replacing sans-culottes.
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Culottes, palazzo pants, and even bell-bottoms will also likely be hot items in the coming decade.
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In any case, Mr. Slimane was not alone in having culottes and grown-ups on his mind.
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Solange Knowles has proven that the bigger the hair, the better it looks with culottes and chunky platforms.
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It's going to be 70 degrees today, so I wear cute Aritzia culottes and a black Missguided tank.
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This time, the culottes were still there; ditto aviators and spiky knee-high boots and lots of blouses.
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Brent Murray Pairing the culottes with the lace-trimmed tube top gives these bottoms a feminine-cool girl vibe.
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The Brexiteers have more in common with the sans-culottes of France than they have with sensible Victorian Englishmen.
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The Duchess of Cambridge debuted her fall wardrobe with a pair of $108 khaki culottes by Jigsaw on Wednesday.
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And I really hope everyone involved is wearing the same terrible lip liner and culottes as in the original.
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These women, dressed in calf-length culottes with chemises and jackets in dark pastel colors, remain gently purposeful throughout.
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There are no cute-but-comfy sweatshirts or athleisure-leaning leggings, but rather Oxford shirts, trench coats, and culottes.
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Even when she dresses more casually, Middleton stays chic — such as when she sported these $108 culottes in October.
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This is a top I got in Korea, and these culottes I got in Tokyo on the same trip.
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Whether you call them culottes, gauchos, or cropped wide-leg pants, unless you're wearing heels, this trend doesn't work.
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Plus, the four looks ahead are all the proof we need that culottes can, indeed, be dressed up for any occasion.
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The gait slowed me down, gave me a head rush and produced grass stains on my culottes that infuriated my mother.
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In fact, store shelves are showing that culottes are sticking around for yet another season, highlighting their versatility and staying power.
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For her collection, Chiuri interprets the "New Look" again, in ivory organza with a peplum of pleats above wide chiffon culottes.
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Pilates, dance, very high heels, and the revival of culottes have all helped me to feel good about having strong, long legs.
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The lovechild of the cutoff and the maxi skirt, culottes are a summer must (I mean, sweaty thighs need a reprieve too!).
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A printed lavallière tie and a jacket — an English hunting jacket with panels, a Norfolk jacket with French-style culottes and boots.
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"Macron, démission" — "Macron, resign" — has become the rallying cry of these modern-day sans-culottes, whose anger is directed at him, personally.
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Though culottes have become more on trend in the past few seasons, some women are still hesitant to try the mid-length look.
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That's when you'll see polka dots worn with tattoos and combat boots, or on giant clown-pant culottes and muumuu-like tent dresses.
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From weekend-ready knits to polished evening alternatives, click through for culottes that will finally convince you to give this trend a try.
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The American rebels wore silk-knee breeches and the French sans-culottes actually drew their name from the long trousers that they wore.
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Meghan Markle wore a Ralph Lauren striped button-up with white culottes to Wimbledon in 2018 on her first solo outing with Kate Middleton.
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And while I love the look of culottes on my coworkers, I just prefer the ease and simplicity of shifts and A-line skirts.
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But with denim diapers a thing of the past (thank God!), Bermudas are threatening a comeback, as are athletic shorts and not-quite culottes.
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"This is my señora moment, triple señora," Mr. Wooster said facetiously, pointing out elements that included a pair of baggy shorts that resembled culottes.
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Hence there was a focus on opposites: distressed jeans and sculpted tailoring, prim blouses and wide culottes, intricate floral lace and tough leather bustiers.
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From a boxy button-down jacket to a pair of cropped culottes, the cherry red offerings show this label is fully entrenched in modern times.
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Lovato's Self Portrait monochrome jumpsuit takes a hit at two major trends as it features a frilled deconstructed top paired with sleek wide-leg culottes.
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Click on for some trousers, palazzos, and culottes that are sure to do the trick, because everyone deserves to have some lightweight bottoms on-hand.
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"The culottes we have with open siding and lace detailing would have been worn by farmers' wives beneath their clothing 100 years ago," says McAlpine.
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The cast for Mr. Schumacher's "The Wind Still Brings," designed by Jonathan Saunders, showed men and women in skirts and culottes of widely differing lengths.
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Back then, he also raised some interesting points about hoodies not being the only kind of streetwear, but people were mostly excited about the culottes.
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It was transformed into refined skirts and coats, as well as frayed and worn-in culottes, similar to the ones the designer herself wore backstage.
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At Celine, Hedi Slimane riffed relentlessly on the Dress for Success era in culottes and blazers, not to mention the Margaret Thatcher pussy-bow blouse.
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AFTER the sans culottes rose up against Louis XVI in 1789 they drew up a declaration of the universal rights of man and of the citizen.
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Whether that's a chic culottes and sweater combo or a tee and leggings look, the comfy shoe is versatile enough to go with just about anything.
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I love culottes: I think they're really flattering with high heels, and really versatile, either paired with the coordinating blazer or with a sweater or blouse.
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Most recently, Kate wore her Superga's with a pair of khaki culottes to unveil her newly renovated "Back to Nature" garden for the Chelsea Flower show.
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While culottes and shorts may have replaced the go-to skinny thanks to rising temps, Kate Middleton is proving that the old standby isn't going anywhere.
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And along one wall is a rail of discreet white and black and marinière striped linen and silk, cotton and denim; culottes, shirtdresses, tunics and cashmeres.
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Long skirts, culottes and sleeves in very light fabrics cut to veil the body but not constrict it are by far the coolest way to dress.
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She wore a tailored, pale blue top of her own design with wide-cut wool culottes, long gold chains and a wrist full of vintage gold bracelets.
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Kate — who wore culottes and Superga sneakers for Monday's outing — had been visiting her garden almost every day in the past week to supervise the finishing touches.
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We're betting you haven't thought to wear culottes like this before — once you start, we guarantee you won't stop, even when the next pants fad rolls around.
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With those requirements, I knew I absolutely had to bring the following items: Temple Outfit: Billowy, lightweight culottes and a shirt that covered my shoulders and chest.
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A few days later, at the big Comme des Garçons shop in Omotesandō, I bought yet another pair of culottes, a fancier pair that are cerulean blue.
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But the revolutionary era also gave us Les Enragés ("the enraged") as a term for a loose group of radical polemicists, the Sans-Culottes ("the pantsless," i.e.
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I can be like everyone else and be cool, not pretending the linen culottes I'm wearing every day are just as good as your crisp, ventilated cargo shorts.
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While some items are only available for in-store pickup, the vast majority of the collection's swingy dresses, patterned sets, crisp culottes, and more are still in stock.
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See the safari-style shorts over pants at Chalayan, the shorts suits with long socks at Altuzarra and the embroidered denim culottes with knee-high boots at Celine.
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"I don't know what you call them — culottes or drop-crotch," he said, as he walked into the shopping center to a chorus of cheers from passing fans.
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The Bowie references weren't much of a surprise; the real shock arrived in the form of culottes, skirts and dresses with hemlines that plummeted to the models' calves. What?
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Light jackets and striped shirts (a WhoWhatWear favorite, according to Power and Kerr) offer some classic options, while culottes and dark florals draw more from street style and runways.
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The actress, 27, wore wide-leg culottes with a white camisole and a denim jacket draped over her shoulders, finishing off the look with a pair of leather slides.
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The Coolottes, $193.99, available at DaiI've worn these breezy jersey culottes to work, but more often than not I wear them on the weekends on a nice day out.
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Now that office dress codes are more lax than ever, Kaplan recommends trying wide-legged culottes or a jumpsuit for spring (unless you work in a more formal environment).
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She was dressed with muted whimsy, in a denim jacket with a fringe collar, black culottes and white Nike Air Max sneakers, like a poet at her day job.
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It's important to note, however, that a high-water pant isn't just any cropped pant; it isn't lumped in with the flattering wide-legged culottes or mid-calf pedal pushers.
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Now, you can find the pant in khaki culottes, bright red hues (courtesy of the lady who brought the pant back, alice + olivia's Stacey Bendet), and even silky tiger prints.
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The high-waisted culottes come with fashionably cut front pleats, slit pockets, and a hemline just above the ankle to show off whatever adorable shoes you're pairing with the look.
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He has been building it with great calculation, one sartorial brick at a time, ever since he arrived at the house (first the dresses, then the culottes, then the jeans).
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The Duchess of Cambridge's typical uniform consists of feminine, floral-print midi dresses, so when she steps out wearing anything else, we notice — as is the case for her culottes.
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The sisters have been very involved with the creative direction of the collection, which includes pieces we often see them wearing — crop tops, culottes, duster jackets, second-skin skirts and more.
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There hasn't been such a compelling sartorial symbol of revolt since the Sans-culottes seized on their trousers as the point of visual difference with the aristocracy during the French Revolution.
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According to Wikipedia, which, eh, is probably right, he's the first president to have his photo taken, to cut his hair short, and to wear pants instead of culottes—three cool milestones.
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Relaxed, wide-legged culottes look as clean as regular work pants, but allow your legs more range of motion and make a meeting-packed Monday feel as nice as a WFH Friday.
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The mostly black, gray, and cream offering consisted of intricately detailed signature twinsets, button-up culottes, and modish minis all paired with black tights, glittering strings of pearl necklaces, and veiled sailor hats.
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Since culottes aren't going anywhere anytime soon, the start of a new year is the perfect time to find fresh ways to style them (or just find a way to wear them, period).
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Los Angeles-based NSF, my favorite jean company — I'd buy their entire collection if I had all the money in the world — are selling straight-legged jeans with patches and big-ass culottes.
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Culottes and midis have monopolized the bottoms market over the past few years, and as much as we love these flowy, longline trends, it's impossible to deny that hemlines are rising once again.
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She knows too well the divide between conventionally feminine behavior (sewing culottes for her granddaughter, or cooking a pot of Irish stew) and what lies temptingly, and often punishingly, on the other side.
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Watching Harry emerge triumphantly, hair and culottes billowing, with the title of Most Popular and Critically Acclaimed Ex-One Direction Member is not unlike watching a long-awaited prophecy finally fall into place.
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For a full decade now, Ubisoft has used the Assassin's Creed series as an excuse to let players get all stabby with the likes of everything from Knights Templar and pirates to sans-culottes.
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The duchess has sported the crisp cotton sneakers with everything from casual jeans at the London Marathon to wide-leg culottes at her children's garden dedication earlier this year, proving they pair with everything.
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Her enormous, heavy-framed eyeglasses, some with ostrich, lizard or python skin, sold in the millions, and she led the way with hip-hugger skirts, ankle socks, trench coats, fake fur, shorts and culottes.
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It's definitely important to name the picture, too, because social media was suddenly, torrentially awash in images of Duncan wearing his signature husky-cut culottes and no-color bowling shirts once his retirement was announced.
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Everything from culottes to chokers to old sitcoms have made a comeback at some point or another in our cyclical culture, and now, a piece of technology from our recent past is experiencing a tiny resurgence.
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So if you're put-off by the prospect of tomboyish tailoring or the fear of being swamped in too much fabric, there's tons of silhouettes to choose from: think culottes, flares, and high-waisted cigarette pants.
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Create a celebrity-worthy look for the office in a cold shoulder button-up top and a pair of culottes or amp up your go-to summer cutoffs with a twisted top featuring an asymmetric hem.
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Thanks to the recognizable Air Max silhouette, this is a sneaker that you can wear with anything from your go-to culottes to spring dresses and all that athleisure that you've amassed these past few seasons.
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In contrast, Mr. Schreiber — who is usually musky with sex appeal (as in "Ray Donovan" on television) — comes across as cloddish and amiable, an old-old-school frat boy stuck in culottes and an unflattering wig.
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When the fashion crowd freaks out about the latest trends and must-have products (like fur-lined loafers, intricately embroidered coats, and beautifully cut culottes), it's sometimes easy to forget the importance of a basic T-shirt.
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Right now, T-shirts with slogans are the first things we reach for when we're looking for something to wear with our jeans, skirts, culottes, over long-sleeve shirts, and under our slip dresses (so basically...everything).
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And to depose outdated customs, like changes of clothing during the day, Ms. Rykiel made reversible dresses and jackets, and she created flexible designs in culottes, which offered the silhouette of a skirt and freedom of movement.
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While the looks ahead don't go to the extreme, these culottes and other wide-legged offerings will have you convinced, showing just how good they look with high-neck blouses, transitional outerwear, and any type of shoe.
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Plus boyfriend basics — slouching ribbed knits and cropped khakis culottes, crisp striped shirts and a wrap trench — and a navy pullover with a bouquet of three-dimensional flowers on the sleeves and the word "Love" on the front.
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Not a catastrophe, but when you turn to street style, the plot thickens: Editors and other fashion-forward types have long since moved on to other kinds of denim, be they flares, culottes, mom jeans, or boyfriend cuts.
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Though the selection had some major standouts — silky embroidered culottes, a blue and silver velvety robe coat, knee-high, red snakeskin cowboy boots — given the reaction following the presentation, it was the lineup that had most people talking.
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In the late 18th century, during the French Revolution, a significant component of the uprising sported working-class pantalons — basically trousers — instead of the fancy knee breeches, or culottes, worn with heels and stockings by the male aristocracy.
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Brent Murray For a more refined look, try pairing your off-the-shoulder top with a fresh pair of striped high-waisted culottes and the block heeled sandals, or wearing it with the sneakers for a low-key look.
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" —Landon Peoples, fashion editorial assistant The Trend: The skinny jeansThe Old Way: With a black camisoleThe New Way: With a tunic and statement slides"I'm a dutiful reader of R29 fashion, so I know culottes are IT right now.
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High School Musical is coming back in the wake of its 10-year reunion and anniversary of the first time Efron and Hudgens strapped on their singing boots and dancing culottes and took the stage at East High School.
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As Colette grows into her confidence, she plays with the way she dresses, dabbling in masculinity and androgyny, punctuating outfits with wicker hats, wearing wide culottes that mimic the appearance of a skirt while revealing themselves to be pants.
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In a glass-walled structure steps away from Paris's historic Les Invalides complex, the designer sent out over 100 looks that included polished short suits and culottes, swingy long-sleeved dresses in patterned silks and platform stacked-heel loafers.
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Ever since her promising debut collection of 2014, she has intrigued tastemakers like Solange Knowles, who wore an Assoulin off-the-shoulder top and culottes to a Bergdorf Goodman fashion bash in December, and fashion influentials like the blogger Leandra Medine.
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She would later create prototypes of the newspaper dress, expand her line of witty accessories (like the telephone purse), and make the first pair of culottes, for tennis player Lili Alvarez in 1931, which caused a fracas among sports fans.
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The blame for this miserable state of affairs lies squarely with Mr Rees-Mogg's ERG, a collection of up to 100 MPs who claim to be conservatives but are in fact the closest thing that Britain has produced to sans culottes.
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The show opened with some tailored culottes and a crafty sweater bearing a message that Ms. Chiuri had found on a scarf in the Dior archives, originally released in 1967: "C'est non, non et non" (It's no, no and no).
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And veils shadowed Simone Rocha's posy-speckled bubble tulle twist on her Chinese heritage, featuring paintings of Tang dynasty concubines sourced from Hong Kong flea markets — "imitations of imitations," she said backstage — all offset by cool culottes and belted jackets.
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There was much to admire, although mostly abstractly, about a show whose sleek suits were largely overshadowed by groupings of curious skirt-trousers, ankle-length culottes in trademark Armani ink blue, and silk jackets patterned with Edo period cranes in flight.
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The closest any designer came to that notional Lawrence Welk collection was probably Lucio Castro's delightfully wacko assortment of mock turtlenecks, culottes, checkered shirts and chevron-quilted puffer jackets in colors that ranged from moss and tobacco to sickroom pink and acid green.
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You've come up with a million excuses to not add a pair of culottes to your wardrobe: They make your legs look short; you don't know what shoes to wear; they fall at a weird length; finding the perfect fit is impossible.
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Let Toro and Coppa mastermind Jamie Bissonnette do it for you; he's curated a selection of three less-conventional cuts—like culottes and teres majores—of Snake River wagyu beef that will get "Oohs" and "Ahs" from the meat eater in your life.
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The overall retail cost of clothes: $900Left: RED Valentino Blush Polka Dot Top, $550 retailMiddle: Proenza Schouler White Label White Denim Culottes, $350 retailAfter hearing so many rave reviews from coworkers and friends, I decided to give Rent the Runway Unlimited a try.
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I bought a pair of side-snap white culottes ($65) that I wore to the beach the next day, and I tried a pair of Meat latex shorts ($165) that smelled like a balloon and were perfect for my sex dungeon basketball league.
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Bare-chested and dressed in loose white culottes, the 13 men of Compagnie Hervé Koubi move throughout "What the Day Owes to the Night" in ways that suggest the slowly shifting contours of sand dunes or the sudden spins of desert whirlwinds.
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I'd have felt like a fool paying all that money and limiting my nipple-high pants and black dress culottes to home, so I started wearing them onstage, which still left me feeling like a fool, but a different kind of one.
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The model opted for a white, moth-eaten, long sleeve t-shirt worn with a matching corset and no bra, as well as a pair of black culottes with a wide cuff at the calf and some very complicated looking seaming around the crotch.
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We've long been champions of wide-legged trousers, especially since a retro-style flare, or a pair of culottes can automatically liven up an otherwise hum-drum ensemble, but it's been a while since the a pair of wide leg jeans extended, well, this wide.
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It seems like such a small detail when you think of it, but the fact that each character sports a different cut of jean (raw-hemmed, cropped flare, culottes) suggests an attention to detail from someone who wants women to feel represented on screen — even sartorially.
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What was really interesting is they missed one season, or two seasons, it was a season and a half that they missed, I don't know, they got culottes when everybody wanted pedal pushers, and that was the frigging end, and every teen abandoned them in seconds.
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The royal mom changed from the casual culottes and sneakers that she'd worn earlier in the day to greet schoolkids for a tiered floral dress by Erdem as she met the Queen, who was joined by other members of the royal family at the annual event.
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Among the roomy outercoats and immaculately tailored suits were new propositions, like culottes and knee-skimming tweed skirts worn over thigh-high boots and a variety of pieces in lumberjack checks; Beckham also worked in offbeat details, such as belt buckles made from silver skeleton hands.
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Before heading to the Big Apple, we caught up with the star to help her pack for Fashion Week, and here's one of the (affordable) #OOTDs she decided on: a plunging black body suit ($25), suede culottes and a black drapey crepe trench coat ($90), all by Express.
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From the black and white Ralph Lauren shirtdress Kate Middleton wore just days after giving birth to Princess Charlotte in May 2015 to the striped Ralph Lauren button up and white culottes Meghan Markle wore to Wimbledon this summer, Lauren's pieces are a signature staple in the royal's wardrobe.
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But the modesty movement is not just a Muslim phenomenon: The style of the Duchess of Cambridge and the Olsen twins have been offered up as examples of conservative yet distinctive fashion—so have the increasingly popular high-necked blouses, square tops that hide curves, culottes and jumpsuits.
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At Hermès, for example, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski brought her audience to the Hippodrome de Longchamp, presumably because of the brand's horsy history, and then shied away from actual animals in favor of impeccably understated, perfectly finished and ultimately bland leather and canvas tunics, culottes and black tie overalls.
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From her romantic burgundy Warehouse sweater with scallop details to her olive green Jigsaw culottes (a British retailer which is featured in Meghan Markle's recent charity capsule collection for Smart Works) to her elegant aubergine pumps from Tod's, Kate's look is everything we aspire to wear this season.
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The trendy-yet-practical culottes, dresses, skirts, and more from the eight labels ahead (some you may be familiar with, others you may not) might just be what it takes to get you out of your blazer rut — and just think about what you can accomplish with a fresh, stylish mindset.
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Passionate and famous male fans of the brand include John Waters, who at the age of 46 modeled for Comme des Garçons in Paris in 1992; the writer David Sedaris, who has admitted to compulsively buying the brand's clownish culottes; and Frank Ocean, who named a song after the company.
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Yet, as the men's wear industry has been trudging steadily away from gender fluidity and toward masculinity as historically constituted, the sight of a guy kitted out in Cuban heels, a garter belt, a pair of shiny culottes or a flounced figure-skating costume seemed less outrageous than, perhaps, passé.
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On Tuesday, she was spotted out in N.Y.C. wearing a pair of shimmery gold leopard-print culottes but that wasn't even the most shocking part of the look — she paired them with a long pink quilted sleeping bag coat with a matching cropped sweater, pink Mary Jane flats and small-framed white sunglasses.
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Working with an elongated silhouette, either via blouson bouclé jackets shot through with metallic glints narrowing to midcalf skirts underneath, or squared-off tops over generous culottes and full skirts (for day), and chiffon-light gowns (for evening), Mr. Lagerfeld offered up a master class in the extraordinary abilities of the couture atelier.
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Karl Lagerfeld had recreated his ateliers, down to the rolls of fabric, dressmakers' dummies, patterns and pins, the better to demonstrate the reality — and human toil — behind the reconfigured tweed suiting (actually trompe l'oeil embroidery), shoulders extended and flattened into two dimensions without internal structure, and culottes swishing about midcalf, on his runway.
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Look at Vogue's recent feature, "The Best Jeans for Every Body," as another example where 22 different kinds of jeans — cropped straight; engineer-striped, wide-legged; black with side-lacing; wide-legged denim trousers; high-rise, cut-off denim; paint-splattered denim; high-waisted culottes; selvedge skinny jeans—are shown. TWENTY-TWO!
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Jeans were the Big New Thing (or maybe the Big Old Thing) on a runway that otherwise seemed like a repeat of his last show, back in March, when he about-faced from dissolute rocker youth in tiny party dresses to bourgeois Frenchwomen (yes, the 1970s version) and set off a frenzy for culottes.
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I remember one, years ago in Washington that I wrote about, and it was a hot, hot, hot store and I'm blanking on the name of it, but it was hot, hot, hot and it was a big stock market, huge stock market valuation, and literally they got culottes wrong one year, and that was the end of it.
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Lake concluded that the future of retail would not consist of shoppers spending hours weeding through the thousands of culottes on the Internet to find the right pair; instead, by using data and customer feedback, she envisioned a world in which a stylist could choose the right product for an individual shopper's tastes and body type.
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Scouting Report Talk about a study in contrasts: On Thursday and Friday, the private shopping salon Suite 1521 will host an event with sweet fall looks from the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner Jonathan Simkhai, like a lace appliqué bustier dress ($795) styled over lace hem culottes ($465) for preorder, alongside distressed Golden Goose Super Star sneakers ($590).
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As she spun through the atelier flou (where the couture dresses are made) and atelier tailleur (where suits and tailoring are made), Ms. Chiuri, in her black culottes, heavy rings on several fingers, was warmly if warily received by most of the women (and a few men) at work, many of whom had been there far longer than she had.
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He zeroed in on such classics as culottes, pussy-bow blouses and Mary Janes, to which he added the house's signature split toe style, and offered a whimsical take on clothes for leisure time spent outdoors: Brightly colored neckties, for example, had the dual appearance of feminine bows and sporty neckerchiefs, and a number of the models carried wicker handbags that looked a bit like picnic baskets.
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Yet there was the box, descending like a mirage from the ceiling of a show space constructed in the shadow of the Invalides, to disgorge … not the twig-like just-post-adolescent in truncated taffeta of his first collection for the brand (and his former work at Saint Laurent) but rather a woman in tweed culottes, gray jacket, pussy-bow blouse, knee-high leather boots, aviator shades and a chain bag.
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The royal mom paid a visit to the Natural History Museum, of which she is patron, on Wednesday to learn how the Angela Marmont Centre for U.K. Biodiversity is helping to protect wildlife in the U.K. Kate embraced fall in green khaki culottes (her new go-to style) from one of her favorite brands, Jigsaw, and a burgundy sweater with a scalloped neckline and sleeves and eyelet detail by Warehouse.
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And Johnny Coca at Mulberry riffed on workwear — buttoned-up, slightly lumpen, strangely interesting (well, his stylist was Lotta Volkova of Vetements fame) — at his sophomore outing for the brand, notably less tied to British cliché than the first, replete with culottes and slouchy shirting in schoolboy stripes or sparkling paisley, reflective lamé and velvet in traffic-cone-bright colors, and broad-shouldered frocks ready to carry the weight of the world on their ruffles.
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Her research into Ms. Saint Phalle led her to discover that the artist was close to the former Dior designer Marc Bohan, and many of the pieces of '60s and '70s-inspired day wear — little black bib frocks paired with over-the-knee socks; Grand Prix-checked pea coats; a cherry red leather trench, soft as butter, over matching pleated culottes; some simple pantsuits in shrunken proportions — were variations on looks he had created for the artist during his tenure.
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Hedi Slimane held his Celine show, as he always does, in a giant black box in the shadow of the Invalides, where Napoleon is buried: more than 100 iterations of pipe cleaner pants and lounge lizard jackets; ruffled silk blouses and bourgeois culottes; buttoned-up little day dresses and golden gypsy frocks, one after the other after the other in a relentless parade of fantasy 1970s glam rock-and-jolie-madame-toned conformity for men and women (the looks are unisex).
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