Style Harem Pants With A Razorback Tee

How To Style Harem Pants With A Razorback Tee

Harem pants originated in Persia around the 16th century. The world got to know about this particular style of pants through exotic belly dancers of the Middle East who frequently wore it during their performances. Harem pants have a loose fit with the fabric gathering at the ankles to form a billowing structure. These pants have enjoyed on and off success with the fashion world. They were quite a craze in the 80s in the western world but got wiped out with the advent of other styles and fashion trends.

Harem pants are quite a controversial fashion item. In the 1800s, woman’s rights activist Amelia Bloomer wore the harem pants as a symbol of defiance against the patriarchal society and its views. As only men wore pants back then, this was a revolutionary move on her part and many other women’s right organizations adopted the harem pants as pretty much their uniform. The harem pants came to be associated with breaking social norms and fighting against society’s oppressive tendencies. In a way, the harem pants still hold some sort of a social significance. Although it has become more of a fashion statement than a symbol of rebelliousness, the harem pants do stand as a symbol of a free-spirit, one who is not bound by society’s ideals.

People seem to either love the harem pants for the comfort and laidback style it has to offer, or hate it for its shapelessness and bulkiness. If you belong to the first category, then this article will be helpful in guiding on how to style your harem pants with razor back tees to create a fusion look.

While you can wear your harem pants with pretty much anything from shirts to sweaters and camisoles, razor-back tees are a particularly great choice as they are styled along the same lines as harem pants – with comfort as the focal point.

You can wear your harem pants with a braided racerback t-shirt (like the one showed in the below picture) and put up your hair in a bun to show-off the back.

Or how about this spiderweb racerback tee? Wouldn’t it look super cool with black leather harem pants? You can wear them for a night out of clubbing.

There are so many options and looks, that you can create with racerbacktees and harem pants. You can combine bold printed harem pants with neutral coloured racerbacktees (shades of grey, black, and white) to keep the look casual.

Whether or not to tuck in your tee depends on the length of the tee and the length of the harem pants. Just go with your instinct and whatever you feel looks good. There are no definite dos and don’ts when it comes to wearing harem pants.

Here are some celebrities who wore harem pants. Who do you think nailed the look and who looks awkward in it?

So go ahead and try this combination of harem pants and tees. You can even add a blazer 

and scarf to make it a layered look.