Palazzo pants, cut to your waist and your length

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Our palazzo pants and palazzo sets

All seven are shown as design previews, and each pair of palazzos is cut from your waist, hips, rise and length. Where they differ is the embroidery and the top that goes with them.

• Navy Border Palazzos: trousers on their own, with a flat front waistband and soft pleats, a wide flowing leg and a deep geometric border embroidered at the hem. Wear them with a kurta, tunic or shirt you already own.
• Blossom Border Kurta and Palazzo Set: a band-collar kurta to the upper thigh with flowers down the placket, wide sleeves with embroidered cuffs and a deep border at the hem, over palazzos with the same floral border at each ankle. In ivory, navy, mauve or rose mauve.
• Ivory Daisy Scallop Set: a flared kurta with scalloped bell sleeves, over palazzos embroidered with pink and white daisies down both legs and finished with scalloped hems.
• Mauve Pearl Button Co-ord Set: a flared kurta below the hip with a pearl-button placket and pink flowers at the neck, cuffs and hem, over wide palazzos with an elasticated waist.
• Maroon Blossom Sleeve Co-ord Set: a long maroon shirt with ivory flowers down both sleeves, worn with white palazzos. Ask for maroon palazzos if you would like the set in one colour.
• Black Lotus Co-ord Set: a hip-length kurta with pink lotus flowers and ivory lace at the neck and cuffs, over straight wide trousers with lotus sprays down each leg. Palazzos can replace the straight pair.
• Indigo Geometric Tunic: a hip-length navy tunic with a band collar, a red and cream geometric yoke and balloon sleeves, which makes a matching outfit with the Navy Border Palazzos.

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High waisted palazzo pants: waist, rise and length

Where a palazzo sits decides how it looks. Worn high, at the narrowest part of the waist, it makes one long line to the floor and balances the wide leg; lower down it looks more casual. As each pair is made to measure, the waistband height comes from you: measure round your body where the band should sit and give the rise from that line, front to back between the legs. A pair you already like can be measured instead, labelled as garment measurements.

The waistband itself differs by design. The Navy Border Palazzos have a flat front with soft pleats, while the Mauve Pearl Button set has an elasticated waist. If you want one of these on another design, say so in your quote request and we confirm whether it works before anything is cut.

• Length: palazzos look best a little longer than other trousers, close to the top of the foot. Measure from the waistband to that point in the shoes you wear most.
• Hem width: measure across the bottom of one leg of a pair you own, laid flat, or tell us how full you want the leg.
• Hips: the width falls from the fullest part of the hip, so an accurate hip measurement keeps the leg hanging straight.

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Palazzo suits: the top that goes over a wide leg

A palazzo suit, or palazzo salwar kameez, is a kurta worn over palazzos instead of a shalwar or straight trousers. The width below balances a shorter top, which is why the kurtas and shirts here stop between the hip and the thigh. A long, full kameez over a full palazzo piles volume on volume; if you want more length on top, a knee-length kurta with side slits keeps the line cleaner, and the Blossom Border kurta can be made that long.

Sleeves change the balance too. The bell sleeves on the Ivory Daisy set echo the width of the trousers below. The Indigo tunic’s balloon sleeves are caught into embroidered cuffs and the maroon shirt has three-quarter sleeves with turned-back cuffs, so both keep the wrists neat above a wide leg. Add a dupatta to the Blossom Border or Ivory Daisy set and it becomes a three-piece for Eid. Our kurta sets and co-ord sets have more pairings, and the two-piece suits on the kurta sets page can be ordered with wide-leg trousers in place of straight ones.

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Embroidered hems, colours and fabric

On a wide trouser the hem is what people notice as you walk, so most of the embroidery here sits low: a geometric band on the navy pair, a floral border on the Blossom set, daisies and scallops on the Ivory set and lotus sprays running down the black trousers. Embroidered trouser hems explains how a border is placed.

The Blossom Border set comes in four colours, and the others are drawn in navy, ivory, mauve, maroon with white, and black. Another colour for the base or the embroidery can be asked for on any of them and is confirmed in your quote. White and pale palazzos can show through in daylight, so a lining is worth considering; see do white trousers need lining.

Fabric for every design here is agreed in your quote, from photos and descriptions, before cutting. A palazzo needs a fabric that drapes, or the leg stands away from the body, so tell us where you will wear them. Sending your own fabric for Stitching Only? We confirm it is suitable and that there is enough before you post it; how much fabric for palazzo trousers gives a rough guide.