You Just Can’t Take The WAG Trousers Off Victoria Beckham

By Daniel Rodgers

In 2006, a group of perma-tanned English women descended on the quiet resort town of Baden-Baden to watch their husbands and boyfriends get kicked out of the World Cup. It was at the height of tabloid culture and the WAGs – mostly just regular girls from regional cities – fell victim to the media’s merciless agenda, their shopping trips and karaoke nights blamed for England’s defeat.

Despite the misogynistic and classist headlines (the Spanish press branded them “hooligans with visas”) these women managed to cultivate one of the most aspirational aesthetics of the ’00s: all strappy camis, status bags, saucer-sized sunnies and peep-toe Louboutins. But it was Victoria Beckham’s all-white trousers that remain one of the most recognisable hallmarks of the era – and something she continued to wear as she ascended to the uppermost echelons of fame and fashion. Even if they are no longer low-slung, sprayed onto the thighs and flared at the ankle.

VB in white trousers with David in Miami.

You can take a girl out of the terraces, but you can’t take the terraces out of the girl. Last night, VB wore these Astro-Turf-scraping wide-legs while watching an Inter Miami match. It’s a trademark look and just as “rich mom” as it was 20 years ago. That’s because this is an item designed with the sole purpose of sitting on a cushion, it will quite literally expose any signs of manual labour and grime. It’s very, “Even a dog gets better treatment than this!”, which is something VB was alleged to have said when a chartered jet failed to arrive on time for Baden-Baden. And it’s quite “Viva Forever”, too.

Victoria wearing white jeans in the early post-Spice days.

At the airport in 2003 in boot-cut white jeans and heels.

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