A wool blazer, wide-legged pants and charmeuse top can be dressed up or down with jewelry and shoes. Jacket, $748; pants, $448, both at lafayetteny148.com.
Midnight blue long blazer with matching cropped pants take the seriousness out of the pantsuit. Blazer, $325; slim trouser, $165, ayr.com.
Gucci’s velvet-trimmed polka dot cotton and wool blend blazer paired with matching pants, a cheeky reinterpretation of the traditional suit, gucci.com.
Lafayette 148 New York’s crepe jacket ($598) and crepe pant ($298) come from the designer who gave us “The Good Wife” costumes. Professional. Not at all boring.
In her fall 2016 runway collection, Tibi designer Amy Smilovic reimagined the conservative pinstriped suit with slouchy pants and an oversize jacket with slits in the sleeves.
A tailored suit in an unexpected dusty rose from Tory Burch’s fall 2016 runway collection.
Always impressive: Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic Le Smoking jacket and pants.
AT HER D.C. VERIZON CENTER concert last Thursday, Barbra Streisand wore a silky black pantsuit with lacy insets, a velvet choker and hair parted in the middle, leading LittleBird summer intern Emily Harburg to comment that the star was riffing on the faux goth look now trending with millennials. In any case, this was not the all-business pantsuit of years past.
For fall 2016, designer Amy Smilovic at Tibi showed pantsuits with fluid trousers and jackets, while Tory Burch offered a tailored version in rose. Gucci’s runway featured a black pantsuit, shown with velvet choker and flesh-colored gloves with jeweled cuffs.
The pantsuit has long been a wardrobe staple of actress Diane Keaton and, of course, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Maybe one of these softer, less constructed looks would work for the would-be Commander-in-Chief.
See photos above of the new relaxed styles that appealed to us and that we’re making room for in our fall closets.
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Love pantsuits. The slouchier, the better! With a white t-shirt, of course.