For some women, capri pants cropped mid-calf represent sun-soaked holidays and a nostalgic femininity found wanting in cargo shorts. For others, they are a greater fashion challenge than sitting down in a bubble skirt .

Championed by Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Mary Tyler Moore in the ’50s and ’60s, revived by every supermodel with a $10,000 day rate in the ’90s, and worn on the red carpet by Hilary Duff, Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez in the ’00s, capri pants are back. Styles have trickled down from runway appearances for luxury labels Tory Burch, Ferragamo and Louis Vuitton, into Cos, Target, Sportscraft and White Fox stores.

“With the return of pop-culture franchises like And Just Like That and Freakier Friday , it’s fitting that ’00s-style capri pants are making a comeback

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