From Harry Styles to Paris fashion week, the trouser turn-up is back

Trousers are simple, but styling can lift them. A classic trick has re-emerged: the turn-up. Harry Styles wore them with pinstripe trews at the Brits, actor Chase Infiniti rolled hers up at Paris fashion week, and hefty turn-ups appear on baggy blue and ecru jeans and olive-green track trousers in JW Anderson’s collection for Uniqlo.

Turn-ups are a staple of preppy labels such as Alex Mill, where turned-up jeans are shown with colourful loafers and socks. At John Lewis, cuffs run the gamut from pencil-thin to the depth of an Oxford English Dictionary. Aurora Benson, a branded womenswear buying manager at John Lewis, has “seen a significant move toward the turn-up” among street stylers at recent fashion weeks: “It’s a simple way to update existing denim, adding immediate visual interest to an outfit without the need for extra layers.” Muffy Aldrich, editor of the blog Salt Water New England, traces cuffs back to British origins: they “have British origins.

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