The bad news is we’re likely staring down the barrel of another 3-4 weeks of fashion’s most notorious transition period: Winter to Spring. Days that try to pull the whole 30s in the morning, 50s by afternoon thing, paired with sporadic showers and intermittent sunshine-pause for eye-roll. The good news is there’s a perfect transitional item to add to your arsenal that isn’t jeans and a sweater.
Whether you want to call them culottes, gauchos, or palazzo pants, these trousers bridge the seasonal gap and coincidentally double as one of Spring’s biggest trends.
These striped culottes are practically ready for a cropped top and sandals, but in the meantime I paired their lightweight with heavier fabrics. Layering my camel coat from Target with a Forever21 choker sweater gave me just the right amount of coverage, and with an active day back in Milwaukee, sneakers were both my friend and perfect clincher to this urban look.
