How to Style Pink Pants Over 60

Pink is a popular color for 2025.  Here’s how to wear pink pants when you’re older and possibly a bit heavier!

I love pink but it’s not always the easiest color to wear.  Too near your face and you can look washed out.  Too much of it everywhere and you can look like the mother of the bride.  Just one pink item and you can look as if you just popped on something summery without thinking how to put a complete outfit together.

Pink trousers can be classic style

Navy military style blazer over pink pants with pink clutch

Adding a second area of pink helps to show you are deliberate in using this color. You can add this emphasis with a small pink bag without going over the top and looking like a sugar plum fairy (i.e. full-on pinkness!)

The structured classic jacket gives a more serious look to the outfit. Pink is often thought of as a color for girls and the young, but adding a ‘grown-up’ top along with classic shoes keeps the summery vibe without looking too young.

Smart but casual look for Spring

Navy silk shirt worn loose over pink chinos

If you want a more casual look I’d keep the same color areas but wear a silk or soft linen top instead of the blazer.

Pink pants for everyday wear

Navy shirt over pink pants with suede accessories

To go more casual still, change out the classic shoes and add a suede pair. Suede is so popular right now. I would add a similar color and textured bag, wearing it across the body if you need free hands for shopping or hand-holding (grandchild or partner!) The double dose of tan suede keeps a put-together look without looking too straitlaced.

A belt or no belt, that is the question

An outfit with a leather belt

There’s something about wearing a belt that makes even a slouchy outfit look styled. But this year I’m finding it more difficult to minimize my big tummy so the bag is a bit of a life saver. Wear it strategically positioned to hide one hip and part of your middle ( see above) or, as here, simply clutched at that mid area where pants show their most valiant stretch.

Pink and denim

Pink puffer vest and pink pants with denim shirt

You can go casual too if you move away from the strongly contrasting blocks of pink with navy. Pink teams well with lots of colors especially mid-denim blue.

I think layering works very well for us older ladies so I’ve added a puffer vest. This is about as pink as I’d go I think. Leaving the shirt tails to hang below the vest not only gives an easy looking outfit (that happily covers that tummy!) but helps to break up the pink. I would happily go to the local park and walk the dog in this look or shop for groceries.

Spring sunshine pink

Pink and cream outfit for Spring

When the brighter days arrive I’d be tempted to ditch the jacket (though generally a huge mistake in England before July) and embrace the pink more fully by adding a pale top. I’m wearing a pale cream sweatshirt though it looks pink here (at least on my laptop).

I’ve added a pink cashmere cardigan worn as a scarf. This should help with the ‘rough winds do shake the darling buds of May’ (Shakespeare!) weather here. But it also adds to the structure of the outfit. A top and pants is fine, but a top and pants plus another item is almost always finer.

Pink layers

Pink cardigan worn with pink pants and navy jacket

You can use a cardigan over the shoulders to make any outfit look more casual. Here I’ve added more pink to my classic outfit by using the pink cardigan. The sleeves, left untied, emphasize the verticals of this styling and help to detract from the horizontal hips and thigh areas.

Add a pink scarf to slim your outfit

Outfit with a pink silk scarf for Spring

To draw the eye up and down your figure rather than across you can continue the pink of the pants up to a pink silk scarf at the neck. As a pale person I need to make sure that the pink I wear against my face is strong enough to make a real contrast.

I’m 75, 62 inches tall and weigh around 146 pounds so I’m basically a short, square person. I style simple outfits that work for my figure type. As I travel a lot my wardrobe is usually restricted to what I’ve packed kin a couple of suitcases, but I think it’s useful to show what you can do even if you don’t have lots of clothes to choose from.

In these shots I’m wearing Marks and Spencer cotton straight pants I bought last summer. The navy blazer from laredoute.co.uk (also available at laredoute.com) and the dark leather loafers also from laredoute.co.uk and laredoute.com are a couple of years old and you can see them in my French Chic try-on here. The cashmere cardigan came from Boden a while back. The suede loafers were gifted me by my daughter years ago, they were from Primark. The links given here are affiliate links – if you click and buy I’ll likely get a commission at no cost to you. Thanks for your support!

If you liked this post why not read one of these others in this series highlighting how to build five new outfits from one new item:

How to Style a Short Jacket 5 Ways

How to Style a Long Fine Cardigan 5 Ways

9 thoughts on “How to Style Pink Pants Over 60

  1. This is such a pretty example of how you can use just use a few pieces and make interesting outfits with them. I love pink on people with light coloring, and the navy and black make it pop! This is a great post for all of us who have less than model figures but still want to look our best.

  2. Cute! (I had to chuckle when you Americanized this entry and said “pants”.) I always enjoy your newsletters and posts.

    1. Hi Su. Yes I tend to try to use American terms on my blog as 80% of my readers are based there. But often I don’t know the right terms even so. For Brits the word pants means underpants or knickers, or, indeed, ‘rubbish, very poor’ so my titles can make me smile too!

  3. You have made me rethink my aversion to pink. I do not dare wear it near my face but the navy blazer and blouse with the pink pants really is striking.

    1. Hi Patricia. Great that you are reconsidering what you feel suits you. That’s basically all the blog is about. I felt stuck in a rut and thought others might feel the same at sixty or so. Since starting to write about style I’ve enjoyed messing around with my wardrobe items so much more!

  4. Very timely post just as we hit a heatwave here in the U.K. I wasn’t ready for a full seasonal wardrobe swap but a pair of soft green (no pink in the cupboard), lightweight trousers and a few navy tops and I was sorted for the week.
    I do miss the seasonal capsule wardrobes you used to put together when you were based in France. You took the hard work out of researching trends for a whole wardrobe. The best ‘on trend’ individual items to update a look are really useful though so whatever you have the time for is gratefully received.

    1. Hi Heather. Thanks for the feedback. I am currently putting together a Spring capsule which should be ready to publish in a few days. Two things are making me shift away from doing the full try-on every season: Cost – as I need to get sleeves (sometimes) and legs (always) shortened it means I have to buy the items, whereas a lot of bloggers try them on to give you an idea of what to buy or how to style then send them straight back. Fear of boring my readers – I want my blog to be authentic, so my seasonal wardrobes really are what I wear. I don’t think we should buy lots of new items every year, I think we should reorganize our items to look fresh and up to date. But this means lots of my clothes have featured over and over again. I can almost hear people saying ‘Oh God, not that again – she always looks like that.’ So I will probably do more of these ‘change one thing’ type try-ons in the future and do the full seasonal try-on if I have a new trend or perspective to illustrate.

  5. I totally agree with all that. I perhaps should have used another phrase than ‘whole wardrobe’. Perhaps a ‘whole look’ would have been better. Since following your blogs I’ve found that I can reinvent whatever’s in the cupboard often with just a single item. I’ve just rediscovered a way to wear a blouse I bought in France during the summer of 1987. Thank you.

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