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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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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.
Hi Rosemary. So pleased you enjoyed the post! Joni