Right now, I would have to scream out 'Yes!', then triumphantly lindy hop round the block a few times, just to show off the swishing lines of my beautiful new find. 'Beautiful new find' being a fantastic pair of hight waisted, wide legged trousers, in a 'silk like' (polyester...I know...) feeling material, which just move so elegantly that I can only wonder why all trousers are not like this. Yesterday I was deliriously happy with the paper bag, slim line, skinny fit trousers, jeans, and wonderfully short-legged formally cut suit pants that are back on our models. But today, I have had a revelation. What happened to 'proper trousers'? Don't get me wrong, I seem to never wear anything that isn't slim fit, and even now can't stand anything that isn't hight waisted, but where are all the wide legs, and tailored creases?
And so I was very happy to find Christian Dior's S/S11, full of this beautiful cut, shown of to their best with billowing blouses and very stylised sailor hats and red lippy.
These 50s/70s look inspired me to do my own search for the vintage look these were based on. After scouring the internet, and finding a fabulous vintage clothes shop based in London, Merchant Archive, these three were my pick.
1930s silk jumpsuit, Merchant Archive London
50s style 1970s sailor jumpsuit, Merchant Archive London 
1970s silver jumpsuit, Merchant Archive London Photographs from www.vogue.co.uk and http://www.merchantarchive.com/
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