Friends, if we talk about the current models of trousers, they can be divided into 2 large groups: shortened trousers and long trousers, the classic length is quite rare now. At the fall/winter 2016 shows, by the way, long trousers prevailed. But in this article we will talk about cropped trousers and see ideas on how you can wear them.
What do we mean by cropped trousers? These are trousers that extend from the ankle upwards. The secret to getting the right length is to expose the thinnest part of your leg. Take a photo of yourself near the mirror and find this area in your photo. When we show our thin spots, we thereby work for the effect of slimness.
Now let's look at the 3 main types of pants.
1/ Skinny cropped trousers
Pants that completely follow the contours of the body and fit almost like leggings. A great opportunity to show off beautiful slender legs, regardless of age. Moreover, let’s say your middle part has become more voluminous over time, but your legs are still thin. By emphasizing your legs, you will thereby divert attention from areas that are less comfortable for you. To maintain an elegant look, it is better to wear something bulky on top: a sweater, shirt, jacket, poncho, and so on. And down - shoes without heels or with low heels.
Heels have not been canceled either, it is only important to continue to balance the bottom with a more voluminous top.
Why can’t a narrow top, you ask? In principle, anything is possible, the main thing is to understand the consequences. When we wear (tight-fitting) clothes, like the model in yellow on the right, we draw maximum attention to our body. If, for example, you have a very beautiful figure and this is your pride, and there is also a situation in life when you need to attract attention, then this method - showing your contours and shapes - can be very useful. And by the way, color won’t be needed here anymore. If this is not your case, then we remain within the framework of balance: narrow at the bottom – voluminous or structural at the top.
2/ Straight cropped trousers
By straight, I will mean trousers that are not tight, have a looser fit (the degree of freedom may vary), but do not yet fall into culottes and keep their shape. It’s easier with them because they do not 100% follow the contours of the leg, but rather create their own straight line. This means they can hide some imperfections.
What's on top? Since the trousers are structured, we can wear whatever we like on top: from a voluminous sweater to a tight top. This is where your wishes and body shape come into play. For example, if you want to balance out a wide top (shoulders are acceptable), then you can create a contrast: choose a narrow top for straight trousers and the trousers against its background will become visually wider.
Fit in general is a very interesting thing, as much as I work with clients, I become convinced that each of us has a very individual feeling of things and the desired contact between them and the body.
What about the shoes? There are also a lot of options; there can be both heels and flat shoes.
Let's see what you can wear with cropped trousers during the cooler months.
Option 1, the warmest: with high boots, ankle boots that go inside the leg
If the trousers are wide and almost go into culottes, then you can wear high narrow boots under them. Ankle boots should accordingly have a narrow shaft.
Option 2: with warm socks/tights
Here you can play: if you match your socks/knee socks to the color of your shoes, create a color vertical that lengthens your legs.
Option 3: with short ankle boots
If climate and frost resistance permit.
Like the model on the right, you can wear socks under your ankle boots that will go inside the leg.
Friends, one more important detail. This type of trousers visually shortens the leg, so let’s help ourselves and add the necessary centimeters:
1/ top - fit at the waist or mid-rise (if the item is tucked in) or emphasis on the waist in the form of a belt
2/ bottom - heel or shoe color to match the color of the trousers (so that it is vertical)
These two methods can be combined, which is what we see in the pictures.
3/ Wide trousers
Friends, I will not dwell on them separately, because I have already written separately about culottes and. And ideas on how to wear them can be taken from these articles. What changes here is that we have volume from below, which means we balance from above either narrow or structural things.
Well, friends, I am writing to you as always, try it, try it on, look for YOURS. The ABC will always help you.
All pictures from pinterest, collagevintage, vogue.com
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Despite the wonderful start to autumn, there will, of course, be cold weather. That's why my wardrobe is slowly becoming trouser-centric. In cold weather, I also wear dresses, but I don’t feel like wearing tights yet, and now I often wear trousers with open ankles, combining them with slip-ons and oxfords.
This season, there are interesting models of trousers in stores: high-waisted, wide-legged, corduroy, cropped, 7/8, culottes. And a reasonable question arises: how to wear shortened models when it gets cold down to your blue ankles. For us it is approximately the end of October, and for many it is already the end of September.
To prevent cropped trousers from being shelved until spring, in this post we will look at options for combining shoes and tights. Because just switching to a standard mid-heel length in cold weather would be too easy :)
The simplest option with wide cropped trousers and culottes is narrow knee-high boots. To match the trousers if you need to stretch out the silhouette, or in contrasting tones if you don’t need to stretch out anything.
If you have a mild climate and you get by with low boots in the cold, then you can complement the look with thick matte tights to match your shoes or trousers.
Not for the sake of insulation, but I’ll still show you the combination of trousers with fishnet tights, also an interesting mix.
Another option with cropped trousers is high ankle boots. Works well with relatively narrow trouser legs that cannot be worn with skinny boots. You can leave a small gap and wear nude tights with a matte texture down.
But you can not leave a gap, but focus on bright ankle boots that contrast in color or style.
And if you are a Creator or simply don’t want to get bogged down in dark and gray in winter, then colored tights or fishnet tights will save you. They can be deliberately emphasized.
Instead of tights, you can choose high colored or plain knee socks or stockings, and some people feel good in socks :)
Skinny cropped trousers and jeans can be tucked into jockey-style boots. In terms of color combinations, there may be dark-dark options if you need to balance out wide hips, or light trousers and dark boots if you have narrow hips.
By the way, cropped trousers in slush have one important advantage. They don't get dirty like classic length models. All the dirt ends up on the shoes, which can be easily wiped off.
That is, it turns out that in order to wear shortened trousers in cold weather, we need:
- narrow boots-stockings or
- long ankle boots or
- boots in the style of jockeys and/or
- thick matte tights/stockings/high socks for combinations with oxfords if you have a mild climate
The more clothes appear in our wardrobe with the onset of cold weather, the easier it is to get confused in fashion rules! After all, you need to manage to combine shoes, trousers, dresses, tights, coats, gloves, and scarves... Stylist Lena Loseva tells how to avoid mistakes.
Ankle boots shouldn't cut your feet
Ankle boots are a very popular fall shoe. And at the same time very cunning! After all, these fashionable boots can both visually lengthen your legs and mercilessly shorten them. Black ankle boots plus nude tights are the first mistake that makes your legs appear shorter.
To make your ankle boots look great, choose tights that match them in color. In addition, it is important to choose a skirt of the correct length for these shoes: it should be knee-length or slightly higher. But in no case lower! Because then it will immediately seem that you have full calves, and your legs are shorter than they really are, says the stylist.
Many women love to wear high ankle boots with capri pants, but the two aren't made for each other. Wear capris with high boots, tucking them into the tops, and pair your ankle boots with skinny jeans, or long straight or flared trousers.
Another popular mistake is to pull tight trousers over the tops of ankle boots so that they fold like an accordion at this point. Don't ever do this! The trousers should either end freely at the mid-heel level or where the ankle boots begin.
The right tights lengthen your legs
If you love shiny tights, then we have bad news for you. This is the wardrobe item that stylists, fashionistas, and photographers are up in arms against. They explain this by saying that such tights make you look fat, that they make your shiny legs look like plastic, and besides, they look extremely bad in photos.
Choose matte tights. At the same time, keep in mind that the shade of flesh should be as close as possible to the color of your skin, and bronze ones with a tanning effect often look unnatural. To make your legs look slimmer, wear black tights with shoes of the same color. Tights from 80 denier will cope with this task. For this reason, it is believed that black tights are better than transparent ones. And don't even think about wearing black tights with light-colored shoes.
If you like fishnet tights, then remember that it should be small, no larger than 7 mm. For these, choose not a mini, but a knee-length circle skirt, plus boots. The result will be a playful, not vulgar image.
Colored tights are not in fashion these days, but you can experiment with patterns. But only for those who have slender legs: on full legs, the designs stretch out and they look even fuller.
Should I wear socks under 7/8 trousers?
Another fashion mystery: what to wear with cropped trousers? What to do with the gap that remains between their bottom edge and the shoe?
To close this gap, women often wear socks or knee socks, which then treacherously slide down. This is a sad sight! - the stylist laments. - If the weather allows you not to wear tights and socks, that’s great. And when it gets colder, wear tights (or knee socks, if you are sure that they will not slip), and it is better that they are close in color to the trousers - then your legs will appear visually longer.
Don't choose a bag that matches your shoes
There are women who love to complement red shoes with a red bag.
This is an old Soviet rule, leave it in the last century. When everything is clearly chosen, it is called: “I tried too hard,” and it looks comical. And your wardrobe should look like you didn't put much thought into it.
Let the bag and shoes differ at least in shades: for example, the bag is coral, and the shoes are wine-colored. True, if we are talking about basic colors - black, gray, white, then the shoes and bag can match in color, but in this case the texture should be different. For example: suede shoes plus a patent leather bag.
The width of the belt depends on your build
To choose the right belt, remember a simple rule: the larger the figure, the wider it should be. Slender girls can pull a 1.5-2 cm wide strap into their jeans, and plump ladies can fit 4-6 cm wide. Remember: any small details on plump women look bad, they make the figure seem even larger.
Another fashion secret: if you want to emphasize your waist, then a simple trick can help you with this - a light belt against a background of dark clothes.
Match the gloves to the color of the coat
What to look for when choosing gloves? If we are talking about one pair, then it is best for the gloves to match the color of the coat. If it is gray-blue, let the gloves be gray or black, if it is beige, then brown.
If you already have one pair of gloves, then you can experiment further: for example, choose bright orange ones for a blue coat.
But let’s not go far for a new topic and talk about this:
"This is the second year I’ve been faced with the problem of what to do in the fall, if it’s fashionable to have cropped trousers, rolled up jeans, open ankles, and it’s cold!”
you know, when we talk about a certain item of clothing, we are not talking about any specific thing. Let's say the question would be: what to wear with Chanel cropped trousers? something a little more specific. And from which collection? and 2015. well, etc. If we had conducted such an interrogation with bias, we would have had a very specific style of pants.
conditionally 
Looking at cropped trousers in the abstract, we mean a huge number of models. This includes length and width, fabrics, prints and everything in general. And we get a mountain of options that can somehow be worn so that it is both fashionable and not cold.
What exactly are cropped trousers? shortened relative to what? Well, let's tie the open ankle here. 
But here’s a problem for you: are these already shortened? or not yet? 
and how short should they be in order to talk specifically about trousers, and not about breeches, for example?
like these cropped trousers? or are these already breeches? 
Why do we need to understand this?
but look - summer open shoes suggest a bare, unprotected and sexy ankle. But the colder it gets, the more closed the shoes themselves become, and the ankle itself can be covered not so much by trousers as by shoes
that is, the trousers may be cropped, but the ankle in the Verna look is closed. And a completely logical question comes out - why then are short trousers needed at all?
in the summer it’s clear - here’s a bare ankle, narrow (or not very), and here are the pants that reveal it.
We put on closed shoes higher, so what if there’s an ankle there. It’s also quite there under the boots, but you can’t really see it. Why then are short pants needed? Your ankle will never be visible.
And cropped trousers are a very useful thing. Although many people scold her, they say she hurts her legs. But it is the shortened length that makes it possible to reconcile the proportions of the legs and torso with certain lengths and volumes of outerwear
There is such a difficult length for outerwear for body proportions - about the knee. It is especially difficult if it does not have a pronounced waist and/or is oversized. Or oversized to mid-thigh. And with full-length trousers and even heels, such outerwear looks, of course, oversized and fashionable, but only in the pictures of fashion blogs. In its own mirror, it is more of a Phillipka format. 
another question, if we remove my little sketches and look at the young lady, how she decided to wear this blue jacket 
a completely different compote. Do you see?
Or something less daring 
short pants add charm to the look, lighten it and generally inspire all sorts of fashionable thoughts. Oh, it’s not the wrong size of the coat, it turns out that it’s oversized, fashionable these days? oh, it’s not you who put the glasses on your feet, it turns out that these are fashionable Chelsea boots without heels!
In the autumn-winter season, the bare ankle itself fades into the background and it is more correct to talk about the emphasized ankle. Yes, even if it is formally covered with shoes (or not only with them), but we remember about it. And it’s with our pants turned up that we say, “Guys, I’m in the know.”
and I'm completely serious now. Because fashionability is a rather sleepy thing in society
Why is it that in one case a girl in a skirt and sneakers is fashionable, but in another it is definitely a workable option? 
You can’t take these cases head-on and derive some rules of fashion from them. So, if you're wearing a tulle tutu, wear sneakers. And if you're wearing an office suit, take it off. This is not here. Because in fact, you can do anything with everything, you just need to understand the logic.
Well, if you wear things that are controversial for the public, such as sneakers with a skirt, or socks with pumps, or voluminous things, or a crape top, then where is the line between “fashionable” and “collective farm”?
that’s where it goes, where their own people isolate theirs in you. Because you won’t be nice to everyone. And short pants for the majority of society are “not enough for normal money”, and oversized “philippines”, and large jewelry “gypsy”. And so on and so forth.
Therefore, the more clearly you define yourself, the more understanding you will find. 
Well, I mean the message that when wearing things that are ambiguous for society, it makes sense to signify a conscious choice of these things.
although, of course, in any case, it is possible that “our own people” will tell you - I went too far, didn’t do enough and “cut my legs”)
So what to do with cropped trousers to keep you warm and the flies from biting?
option 1 - continue to show off your bare ankle.
Uneven insulation as long as the weather permits. 
Or use transparent and invisible nylon. It is transparent and imperceptible, imitating bare skin.
Well, it’s still warm and bare legs are generally appropriate. 
Because when there is snow all around, bare legs would look strange 
as well as low boots. Some of them, you know, are cold, not for winter. The young lady deigns to be fashionable.
so if bare legs are inappropriate Option 2 - emphasis on socks
The natural question is: is black nylon an accent? 
Absolutely no here. Specifically here, this is an attempt to extend the shoes due to black nylon. Maybe the ladies put something else into it. Maybe they followed the trend and threw out all the nude tights/socks. But specifically here they look a little timid. And this is where this black nylon spoils everything.
Too much canary socks? let it be nylon, but in lace/flowers or bolder colors. Or transparent flesh-colored, imitating a bare ankle. But specifically here, in relatively warm looks, black nylon with cropped trousers spoils the girls.
Option three - wear shoes that are narrow at the ankle
It’s more of an emphasis on the shoes, which should be cool (then it’s stylish) AND on THE narrow ankles themselves, which look narrow even in shoes. (if you need it, of course)
However, these may not be very narrow shoes, then you need to maintain some balance between the length and width of the trouser legs and the boot 
I’m not ready to derive the rules. Because here we need to write about general brutality, which cannot be measured in numbers. And about appropriateness and overall appearance.
although, perhaps, all this should be taken into account in all options, but here it is most relevant..
there is one last question left - How to make sure that cropped trousers and their friendship with autumn shoes don’t hurt your legs?
I will answer honestly and generally to the best of my ability. This weight was invented by various style theorists, who for some reason are sure that everyone, without exception, wants only one thing - a silhouette that emphatically satisfies the canons of beauty of society.
Those who want this, a priori, cannot like oversize, for example, because this very oversize has nothing to do with silhouettes at all. Can't love crap tops that cut your belly. And in general, they are very limited in the choice of clothes, because they are purely solving their own problem - to achieve the right silhouette in clothes - once. To be understood in the company of noble dons is two. And if this is your top priority, you shouldn’t wear cropped trousers at all. Because it’s easier to come up with rules for when they cut, when they don’t... it’s easier to kill yourself, honestly. Just focus on the mirror. If you see short legs in funny pants in your mirror, don’t force yourself, take the full length and you will be happy.
Cropped women's trousers are undoubtedly the leading trend of recent seasons; for several years in a row they have not gone out of fashion. So, this article will tell you what to wear with short trousers.
Who is it suitable for?
Some women believe that cropped trousers are only suitable for long-legged beauties, but this is a wrong opinion; on the contrary, properly selected cropped trousers with high-heeled shoes will make your legs visually longer, especially if they are high-waisted trousers. Particular attention, of course, needs to be paid to both the top part of the image and the little things.
Such a disadvantage as ugly ankles can be corrected by beautiful shoes, socks or tights. By the way, sandals worn on a sock are becoming fashionable, so in the summer you can wear a thin sock and not worry.
Pants with arrows
Cropped trousers with arrows are a very feminine option, despite the initial apparent severity. These pants are suitable for working in the office and for meeting with girlfriends, the main thing is to choose beautiful shoes. A light blouse is best suited for such trousers; in cool weather, you can throw on a matching jacket; accessories should be neat, elegant and not too bright, even if it is jewelry, not costume jewelry. ¾ sleeves look very nice with these trousers. Instead of a bag, it is better to take a cute clutch or cross-body bag with a thin strap.
On every day
The peak time for wearing cropped trousers is in spring and summer. In warm weather, you can wear a stylish blouse or T-shirt; the color of the clothing is chosen based on the color of the trousers.
If these are rolled up jeans, then they are most suitable for everyday wear. Short jeans will look great with sneakers and a checkered shirt, you can wear a T-shirt under the shirt, you will get a kind of cowboy style, and if the jeans are torn, then it will be a “grunge” style, both of these styles are very relevant at the moment. If it gets very hot, you can tie a shirt on your hips and thereby give your image even more originality. You can see other options for wearing cropped jeans in the photo below:
Peculiarities
- Cropped trousers are those whose length is slightly above the ankle. Most often, such trousers are tapered, but not “tight”, like, for example, skinny ones.
- Short trousers visually make your legs look longer and slimmer; an even greater effect is achieved if you wear high-heeled shoes.
- Short trousers can be of two options: ending just above the ankle or mid-calf, the second option is suitable for tall girls.
- Girls with curvy figures should choose fitted trousers with a minimum amount of decorative elements.
Winter and autumn
Oddly enough, short trousers can be worn not only in warm weather; in winter and autumn you can also create a stylish look, the basis of which will be shortened trousers.
Shoes
The ideal shoes for such pants would be ankle boots; under the trousers you will need to wear thick tights in dark shades (black, burgundy, brown, etc.). If you're wearing boots instead of ankle boots, you don't need to tuck in your pants, so the tighter the boots, the better. You can also wear a warm sweater and coat; a large scarf or snood will look great. Choose a bag that is voluminous; the larger the size, the better.
Short flared trousers look very unusual and feminine; you must wear them with high-heeled shoes; you can wear a wide-brimmed hat as an accessory; you will get a sophisticated and very feminine look.
Classic
Black trousers are traditionally considered classic; this is an ideal option that is suitable for any occasion, from serious negotiations to going to a party with girlfriends.
The most classic combination with black cropped trousers is a white blouse; to diversify this style a little, you can wear a colored shirt, perhaps with some interesting print, and on top you can throw on a fitted jacket with ¾ sleeves or a vest. A high heel will help you visually “lengthen” your legs, and an elegant clutch can complete your look.
Other classic colors 
The black color of the trousers can be replaced with dark blue or brown; they also belong to strict classic shades. A green blouse will go well with blue trousers, and a top in burgundy or blood-red shades will go well with brown ones. It is better to choose shoes in neutral tones, and the bag is the same.
Don’t be shy about bold combinations, the main thing is to remember that warm shades should be combined with warm ones, and cold ones with cold ones, and then you can put together a great look for any occasion.
We offer you interesting ideas and material for inspiration from the video collection below.
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