Think multi-zip leather vests and jackets, drawstring pants and skirts, and parachute coats in cobalt and coral.

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Denim, whether as pants, jackets, dresses or skirts, is as popular in the fashion capitals of Europe as it is here (and maybe even more so).

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You can see it in the short dresses with kicky skirts worn over cigarette pants and topped off with a ball cap and in the boxy sweaters.

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The dancers wore these outfits without regard to gender, with some men sporting the skirts and some women the pants.

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Riccardo Tischy was his envelope-pushing shelf at Givenchy where he showed oversized striped sweaters with skirts worn over skin-tight pants.

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Offices tend to set more boundaries and enforce a strict dress code with several no-no items including open-toed shoes, super short skirts, plunging necklines, and torn pants.

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