My relationship with pants over the past twenty years has been a strange one.

I’m sure as a child I spent plenty of time in drill pants and my primary school years are a blur of black tracksuit pants but it was during high school that I discovered the skirt and the dress and I never looked back.

I started year 7 in perhaps the daggiest navy blue school slacks one could wear. It only took three months before I realised that rain, hail or shine, the school skirt (which I had told mum I would NEVER wear) was the height of sophistication and I was done with the pants.

Our school skirt was, in terms of school uniforms, one of the better ones. Navy with a red and white tartan stripe, worn with a white top. While we wore polo tee’s untucked with ankle socks and doc martens, I can imagine how much classier it would have been with knee high socks, mary jane’s and a short sleeve crisp white shirt. (Ahh what Gossip Girl has done for the humble uniform!)

But alas – this post is about pants and I’m getting off track. The point was, the school skirt led to a love of skirts, dresses and all things girly. I wouldn’t even wear jeans. Hated them with a passion. I wore tracksuit pants at home (god forbid) and everywhere else – the skirt. There was the occasional pair of boring black pants at work (horrid bellbottoms things that they were) but I pretty much swore off pants forever.

Jeans slowly crept back in, (I still remember buying the most perfect jeans at Just Jeans, Lee Riders that over the years haven’t fitted as well as they did when I bought them) and if it was one of the more freezing Melbourne days i’d drag out the black pants with tights underneath. Until now.

I’ve found the perfect pants. 7/8 in length. Available in four colours. Comfortable. Classy. Country Road.

The cropped seamed skinny pant is possibly the last pant I will ever own. I have them in black, and I’m quite keen on the grey. I’m also considering stockpiling the black – I wear them at least once a week – and I want to wear them forever. They work with heels or flats, tucked in tops or loose. They are perfect.

So now I’m wearing the pants. You should too.

Crop seamed skinny pany, Country Road $89.95. In black, deep grey, light cashew and deep safari.