Oversized Tailoring Keeps Growing, and Menswear Is Where It Started

Oversized tailoring has been building for several consecutive seasons, each collection pushing blazer shoulders and trouser volume slightly further than the one before, without the trend showing signs of correcting back toward fitted silhouettes. This season's collections make the trend's origins more visible than usual, with several womenswear designers drawing explicitly from menswear tailoring proportions rather than reinterpreting them.

The distinction matters structurally. Womenswear's version of oversized tailoring has often maintained some fitted shaping at the waist even as shoulders and sleeves ballooned. This season's silhouettes drop that shaping more consistently, favoring a straighter drop from shoulder to hem that reads as a genuine borrow from menswear's boxier construction rather than an exaggerated womenswear shape.

Several shows paired the oversized jackets with equally roomy trousers rather than the fitted or cropped bottoms that have often balanced volume up top in past seasons, producing a more uniformly loose silhouette throughout.

Whether the trend has more room to grow before customers push back on wearability is an open question several buyers raised backstage, but for now the trajectory is still expanding rather than correcting.