In the 1990s, women groups such as All Saints and TLC popularised utilitarian-looking combat trousers © Ken McKay/Shutterstock I don't know about you, but I came of age wearing combat trousers. I was 12 in 1994, when TLC released CrazySexyCool , and 15 in 1997, during All Saints' pomp, when pop culture was saturated with images of women in giant utilitarian-looking slacks. I wore mine very long, over flatforms, from my teens until I graduated from university in the early noughties. I can still feel the tug of their fraying hems, which continually required disentanglement from some object on the floor, and the swish of fabric that made my body issues moot. It's safe to say they were a formative garment. So how to feel about their return, more than 20 years later? Because, in a surprise post-lockdown fashion twist, combats — or, as their most recognisable, pocket-covered iterations are now more commonly known, cargo or utility trousers — are having a resurgence. Young, hip ty...