Appearance: Flowing, wide-legged, with a high waist, elastic waistband and front pockets. Sounds perfect for the heatwave - loose and airy. Also very much on trend. Just be careful.

Be careful? Of your trousers? Yes, if social media is to be believed. Influencer Jessica Pearce warns: “The Zara trousers are going to be the death of you,” in a TikTok video showing her face-planting on a gravel driveway. Camila Ribera Roca, from Bolivia, posted a video of herself tripping on a pavement while wearing the trousers - then showing her cut arm to more than a million viewers, artfully accompanied by the mournful Lacrimosa from Mozart’s Requiem.

“These pants almost killed me,” Ellin Costa from Canada told CBC News, after a fall in which she broke her wrist and cut her face. Another creator - Morgana suffered possibly worse: a broken phone plus a grazed knee. Her post has had 2.3m views. One woman’s hem got caught in the teeth of an escalator, pulling the trousers down to her thighs. The voluminous fabric apparently gets wrapped around itself, as well as the wearer’s ankles and feet, causing them to trip.

Stylist Clare Chambers told the Metro: “The wider the leg, the more likely it is to get caught and wrapped around the opposite leg/foot causing the wearer to trip and fall.” Zara, meanwhile, has said nada - Pass Notes reached out, as have others, but got nothing back. One TikToker suggests putting hairbands around them at the ankle - or wearing high heels. Because no one was ever injured by wearing stilettos? Choose your fashion hazard wisely.