24 Pairs of Leggings That Look Just Like Trousers
For obvious reasons, leggings are a wardrobe staple that none of us plan to part with anytime soon. We love wearing comfy leggings for errands, workouts, long road trips… you name it. But if you're hopelessly devoted to them, you'd prefer to wear them for a wider variety of occasions, right? Well, good news. We searched the depths of the internet for leggings that look just like trousers. They truly make wearing leggings as pants okay, and that's saying a lot.
In our trouser-like legging research, we were pleased to find that brands have clearly responded to the demands of shoppers wanting leggings they can wear anywhere and everywhere. For example, there are checked leggings from Zara and H&M for work, leather leggings from J Brand and Helmut Lang for date night, and 19 more options for everything in between. Read on to shop 24 cool pairs of leggings that we promise look just like trousers.
Once we're back in the office, we'd gladly add these into our work outfit rotation.
According to J.Crew, these pants are "basically like a fancy pair of leggings you can wear any day, Monday through Sunday."
In the words of the brand, "suitable for late nights, early mornings and everything in between."
Next, How to Wear Leggings in 2021
This post was originally published at an earlier date and has since been updated.
Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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