Dispatch From L.A.: It Girls Have Officially Retired High-Rise Leggings for This Chill Alt
No hate to basic high-rise leggings, but it's about time a fresher silhouette entered the chat. While I think there will always be a need for a pair of classic black leggings, I'm noticing a massive shift in the activewear that all the It girls in L.A. are actually wearing to Pilates and yoga classes and on hikes and matcha runs. The style they're all gravitating toward instead? Fold-over leggings, especially styles with flared-leg silhouettes.
After Hailey Bieber posted a workout selfie to her Instagram Stories—wearing a pair of the CSB Form Invisible Scrunch Flare Foldover Leggings that Dua Lipa also owns—I started noticing similar styles on all the best dressed women on the West Coast. Elsa Hosk, for one, paired her fold-over leggings with a camo tee and ballet flats for a casual-cool outfit that I'm already jotting down for my next coffee run, and Devon Lee Carlson wore a printed-waistband pair on a recent hike. All in all, high-rise leggings aren't truly over, but if you want your activewear outfits to look more forward, I highly suggest swapping them for one of these fold-over flared-leg styles.
Below, see how all the best dressed It girls, from Bieber to Hosk, are wearing the fold-over-legging trend and then shop the best pairs.
How L.A. It Girls Wear the Trend
On Hailey Bieber: CSB Form Scoop Tank($65) and Form Invisible Scrunch Flare Foldover Leggings ($100)
On Elsa Hosk: Lioness Layover Pants ($100)
On Dua Lipa: CSB Form Invisible Scrunch Flare Foldover Leggings ($100)
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Anna is an NYC-based senior fashion editor who has been a member of the Who What Wear team for over eight years, having begun her career in L.A. at brands like Michael Kors and A.L.C. As an editor, she has earned a reputation for her coverage of breaking trends, emerging brands, luxury shopping curations, fashion features, and more. Anna has penned a number Who What Wear cover interviews, including Megan Fox, Julia Garner, and Lilly Collins. She also leads the site’s emerging travel vertical that highlights all things travel and lifestyle through a fashion-person lens.