Christian Lacroix showed "skirt pants," wide-legged, high-waisted trousers that were slit on the side seams and had man-style tabs to adjust the waist.

One of the best-selling infant sets for boys consists of wide-legged trousers striped in rust, gray and white with a matching rust sweater complete with leprechaun-like hood (50 euros).

The majority of the show was in exquisitely, if dull, perfect taste: little tweed jackets with glistening pearl buttons and wide-legged trousers.

Unlike the Lolita fashions, Elegant Gothic Aristocrats wear long skirts or wide-legged trousers, tailored and streamlined jackets, and tight-fitting, long-sleeved shirts and blouses.

Sue, incomprehensibly at first, turned up wearing a silk, mandarin-collared jacket and wide-legged trousers.

And the end product -be it a high-waisted skirt, a suit or a pair of wide-legged trousers - may be far from the standardized item that once typified the genre.

Today she is wearing a very chic, all-black ensemble of wide-legged trousers and semi-sheer top.

So the designer wisely offers alternatives: wide-legged trousers and long pleated skirts.

In the 1970s, suit makers offered a variety of styles of trousers, including flared, bell bottomed, wide-legged, and more traditional tapered trousers.

Still, her short green coat would have blended into woodlands at another time of the year, and for a wonder, her wide-legged trousers were the same color.