When the heat is sweltering outside your air-conditioned room, the desert is endless and an oasis is nowhere to be seen, that’s when the inner Arabia in you needs to soar out.
Wake up and indulge yourself with an intoxicating aromatic coffee, wear harem pants or throw on a kaftan. The gaiety of the layered material of those garments will allow the air to filter through your soul, encouraging you to rise beyond the dunes.
Culturally embellished garments are the new trend, and you don’t have to travel far to follow it. Depending on your budget you might find a piece that appeals anywhere from a street-corner store to a high-end luxury boutique at the mall. Those culturally inspired treasures have evolved through a long trip, from Arabia to the West and back again.
Harem pants, or women’s trousers with a dropped crotch and draped gatherings at the waist, create the illusion of a silhouette. We have seen their comeback on the couture catwalks of Milan, Paris and New York. They swept across the world after a famously chic French fashion magazine editor embraced them: first the streets of Paris, and now a world trend.
This fashion development is a milestone. Trousers for women did not become a fashion item until maybe the mid-20th century. Now we have trousers actually named after women, or at least how women were once referred to. Harem is a Turkish word derived from the Arabic haram, which means “forbidden”.
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