Old pants for new styles.

These are the confessions of a tomboy; a girl who enjoys activities and most especially clothes associated with boys. For several reasons such as comfortability, affordability, and did I mention, they’re comfortable?

Not just in a physical manner, No! but something like mental comfortability too, the relaxation that only wearing boy clothes brought to my daily routine.

Now, decades later I realized that it was all an escape from being cautious about my body and color coordinations or whatever category fashionistas like my peers and sisters use to pick out the perfect items for that 'it' outfit.

Until the day I tried on my favorite pants, in the women’s section surprisingly. A 60’S treasure, the bell bottoms, now replaced by the flare leg pants. The difference is, flare leg pants are narrow at the knee with an extra-wide flare at the leg and commonly on low rise jeans. Whereas the gem, bell bottoms are wider, more exaggerated flare named and made popular in the 1960s, often used with low rise jeans but now in 2021 comes in the high waist too, only for the brave.

My obsession with the pants was variety; when it comes to what to match them with, they could pass for part of a hero’s outfit, some badass who rescues the world in her high heels and looks good being kick ass. Maybe with an afro? Yes, I know that look has already being used at every '60s/ Halloween party ever. But the imagery is a pleasant sight, that is why you will always catch me appreciating a 90’s theme party even when it is virtual.

The bottom line for me is, I can wear them for any season, to the office or the park, and look sizzling while at it or at least those are the feelings associated with the thoughts I had when I tried them on for the first time. ‘I COULD HOP ON A RUNWAY’ that’s exactly what I thought and no amount of straight, skinny, or also, boyfriend jeans can convince me otherwise.

I do this thing where I hold on to something because someone told me it looked good on me, even when it doesn’t suit or fit me anymore. Conversations with my friends go from "go get dressed" to "but my friend that's out of fashion, let me pick something for you".

Not forgetting my mom and her entourage (my sisters) and how they would always say I repeat the same style, "try something new, sis". And to this day, I say how about something comfortable? Like figure-hugging pants that leave room for air and hide my unkempt toenails. Amazing right?

Okay, I had better reasons then but oh well!

Imagine the sweet nostalgia I felt when designers from Celine to Paco Rabanne reintroduced the so-called flare leg pants- that are honestly just a less exciting version of bell-bottom- in the s/s 20 collections as the next IT pick for the forward set

As an undevoted follower of fashion, I have no business taking sides for which pants are the best since most bell-bottom lovers are known to be anti’ skinny jeans because it is a 'one style – suits a few' type of item. I stan, bell-bottoms, in my opinion, definitely suit all sizes with their wide #leg-game accommodating pizzazz!

Whether it is a hot summer's day with mandala printed Rayan pants, or chino in the fall and denim in winter or crepe in spring...I can have different waist lengths, colors, and look fashion-forward yet a 60’s representative all-year-round.

I might be blinded by my childhood memory but I am at ease knowing what I will be packing this summer -hints- with boho prints. Honey, I don’t even wanna begin explaining to you what the pants do to these cheeks, its something out of a TikTok influencer’s video, I tell you