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Stylist shares the one item she’s ‘pulling out of everyone’s wardrobe this summer’ – and your mum wore it 15 years ago
"It's just going to make you look shorter instead of visually elongated," stylist Casey Matheny warned
THERE are a number of fashion trends from the late Nineties and early Noughties that make us wince now.
But with Gen-Z’s dedication to wearing things off the beaten track, so many long-buried styles are making a comeback.
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Now, a fashion stylist has urged people to stay away from one item of clothing that’s rearing its ugly head.
Casey Matheny revealed that she throws out every pair of capri pants and pedal pushers she finds when detoxing her clients wardrobes.
“You know them,” she said.
“They are cropped but they hit at mid-calf.
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“Your mum maybe wore them 10 to 15 years ago.
“If you have them in your closet, they have got to go.”
Casey instead recommended cropped trousers that are around an inch over your ankle.
“If it goes any higher than that, then it’s just creating these horizontal lines in your leg,” she explained.
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“And that’s just going to make you look shorter instead of visually elongated.”
From superstar singer J Lo to Sex And The City actress Sarah Jessica Parker, cut-offs were all over the legs of celebs two decades ago.
And now they're back and being sold on the high street.
Ending between the knee and mid calf, capri pants can enlarge the tops and bottoms of the legs on certain body types.
They began life in the Fifties (think American diners and pink gingham) and were further popularised by Madonna and Bananarama in the Eighties.
By the early Noughties, they were a summer fashion staple for millions of women.
Even now, ‘capri pants’ videos have an eye-watering 12.4million views on TikTok.
And it's not just Casey warning people off the trend.
Popular fashion YouTuber says that some of your clothes may be making you look old and outdated – including capri pants.
"They're very, very unflattering," she said.
"They actually cut your leg off at the worst spot - at the center of your calf.
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"It makes your legs look way chunkier and stumpier than they are."
The "bizarre length" can also make your torso and your legs look like the same length, which is not what you want
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