Trousers

As well as being one of the most ubiquitous pieces within anyone’s wardrobe, trousers have an important part to play within Western womenswear history. Despite there being instances of women wearing trousers in the Victorians and early 20th century, it wasn’t until the 1960s and 1970s, when the women’s liberation movement was underway fighting for gender equality, that those strict sartorial rules were finally dismantled