Step away from the bootlegs

Bell-bottoms, palazzo pants and billowing wide legged trousers make a welcome return for women this season. Disturbingly, they also appear to be on the fashion radar for men. Most worryingly, the style for men is just wider than a bootcut, my most hated of all cuts - as seen below at Acne.

Ireland is a country filled with men clad in ill-fitting jeans and apparently obsessed with the unflattering bootcut. When well styled and hanging off a rakeish model they can pass for acceptable, but on your average fellow shambling about Dublin they're just wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Ugly. The ends are always ripped and covered in mud, and they do nothing good for anyone with a waist bigger than a 32.

The news that they're once again deemed fashionable is just going to fuel their mania for the awful things.