Fashion retailer Zara's oversized trousers have taken over the internet for all the wrong reasons, with thousands of people sharing videos of trips, tumbles and falls.
Labelled "death pants" by some online, the wide-leg pants are causing some people to be seriously injured after the fabric became caught under their feet, in elevators and escalators around the world.
Breakfast reporter Lucy Bendell — standing at a whopping 5 ft 2 inches — tried the viral pants, and spoke about her experience on the show this morning.
"They're comfortable. I'm wearing them now. They're free flowing, quite silky, but people are wearing them and then, of course, tripping over.
"With the heat waves in Europe, I think that's the reason why people are wearing them because they are very comfortable. But then people are tripping over, and it's not just an embarrassing sort of fall - they're getting injuries, they're in hospital. they're breaking bones," she explained.
She said the issue was not the length but the width of the pant leg that seemed to be causing problems.
Bendell said the worst part: the office wheelie chairs.
"I'm pulling in my chair or I'm pulling out my chair, and it's instantly getting caught," she admitted.
Breakfast host Chris Chang interjected with some solid reasoning, asking: "isn't the solution just don't buy the pants?"
To which Tova O'Brien and Bendell responded that people were still buying them, and they actually seemed to increase in popularity following the social media attention.
Zara aren't the only fashion retailer to offer the style. Breakfast approached Zara for comment but hasn't heard back.
Are Media Editorial Director Sarah Henry said that this has been happening for a long time - mostly to women.
"There's been things like hooped skirts that women were wearing that would get caught on things, and they would trip and have terrible injuries. There's feet binding, there's corsetry, and it's not just a female problem. You know, there there were issues in in the in the 60s around stove pipe pants for men and winkle picker shoes that they were tripping over," she said.
She said these were mostly "sitting pants", but could be altered with a scrunchie or tie at the bottom to keep from being a hazard while on the go.
"When you're in transit, you are pulling out a little accessory, something like a couple of hair scrunchies, pulling them up at the bottom, and then bunching them out, and then you've got a balloon pant. I mean, that's multi-purpose fashion," she said.
ACC said it reported 10,000 claims a year for just clothing-related incidents in general, with the main injuries being for the lower back and spine, followed by foot, shoulder and then toes.
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