Leather trousers have had a makeover just in time for the changing of the seasons - getty

There was a time when if anyone apart from a bloke on a motorbike dared to wear leather trousers, it was considered a rather outrageous style statement ripe for extensive public debate – whether that was Posh and Becks in coordinating skintight Gucci, Theresa May causing a political storm in a £995 pair or my 50-something headteacher wearing hers on non-uniform days (it was the talk of the school for at least a week, I seem to remember).