Trend-Setting Trouser Suits
Trousers might have been a practical addition to women’s wardrobes and played a key role in women’s emancipation but trouser suits also have a more glamorous history.
Fashion Icons
Coco Chanel was famed for marrying masculine comfort to feminine style with her iconic Chanel suit but the first ready-to-wear women’s trouser suit is credited to Marcel Rochas in the 1930s and Vogue published its first editorial featuring women in trousers later that decade.
Trouser Suits On Screen
The forties saw Katherine Hepburn habitually sporting elegant, wide-legged trousers both on and off screen, while cropped capri pants were popularised in the fifties by another actress, Audrey Hepburn.
Suitable Wedding Wear
By the 1970’s trouser suits had even become suitable bridal attire, most famously when Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías married Mick Jagger, wearing a white version of Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic “Le Smoking”.
Suit Yourself
Knit and crochet trouser suits became fashionable in the 60’s and 70’s and you’ll find examples featuring granny squares, crop tops, flared trousers, shorts, as well as suits for children.