How To Wear Wide Leg Pants - Fussing With Proportions

AKA Proportionizing.

I LOVE Drag Race, and fellow enthusiasts will remember an episode where Eureka O’Hara touted the benefits of “proportionizing” - AKA, wearing the right proportions for your shape. In her case, she was speaking more to padding that regular dressing, but I can’t think about proportions without hearing Eureka scream PROPORTIONIZING! Which, weirdly, I can’t find a video of, but here’s this:

Anyway, I’ve written about my specific challenges with wide-leg pants, namely, which shoes to wear them with. I’m (mostly) over my aversion to closed toe shoes with wide-legs, as you’ll see here. But the other hangup I have is what to wear on top - how to balance the proportion of volume on the lower half of your body. In my magazine all the solutions are pat and neat days, we would say, wear something fitted on top. And while that still holds, it’s not always the most INTERESTING solution. It can make me feel a little….predictable. Meanwhile, I kept seeing runway looks that were pants-centric (I am Pan…