First came the young women, and since I am neither a woman nor a young woman, I said nothing. Then, it was the mature ones and I didn’t say anything either (in fact, I didn’t even notice). Then they came for me, and there was no one left to save me: flared trousers are back and will be a trend this season in men’s fashion…
What harm have we done, those of that time, the young people of the seventies, so that bell bottoms now reappear in the temples of men’s fashion?
“The seventies were the most powerful era in terms of fashion and creativity”, whisper those who understand. Very beautiful! Bell bottoms are back, but one is left with the years, wrinkles and legs of 2023, plus the existential doubt of whether it will succumb again because I know how hard it is: if the fashion industry dictates – they don’t even dictate in schools anymore!–, give yourself up for dead because we men think of ourselves at forty, when one can have everything, everyone and everything.
Apparently, flared trousers – not to be confused with Campanero, a brau name with caste – stylize and emphasize the buttocks. This is all very well if you are at least 1.78 meters tall, go to the gym for ulterior purposes and have a yacht in Sardinia. But, what about the short ones?, and the recently married ones whose wife still buys them clothes?, or the salty divorcees without a job or benefit?
I admit my traumatic relationship with bell bottoms in the seventies, a piece I would never have worn if it wasn’t for Johan Cruyff wearing them when he landed in Barcelona. I didn’t really care if John Lennon wore it. But Johan… the longest and most beautiful legs in Catalonia after Tania Doris! We all wanted to be like him!
Let’s say the trend takes root in 2024. And that even the chief of staff shows up on a Friday wearing the cute piece. So what’s the point of wearing fancy shoes if only the toes are visible (which may be familiar to readers of a certain age)?
Oscar Ringo Bonavena, Argentine legend of the ring who was shot four times by his lover’s mobster husband, already said it: life is a comb given to you when you are bald.
