The Best Capri Pants to Buy Now (and How to Style Them for Women Over 50)
Today’s post, The Best Capri Pants to Buy Now, came straight from the comments. Thank you for the great idea! You asked for capri pants and tops to wear with them, so that’s exactly what we’re diving into today. I love it when y’all come up with the topic. The companion post with top options is coming tomorrow! The timing couldn’t be better because capris are having a style moment again, and I’m all in. Whether you call them capris, pedal pushers, or cropped pants, they bring an easy, breezy vibe to your summer wardrobe, keeping you cool and comfortable while still looking polished.
What’s the Difference Between Cropped and Capri Pants?
The terms “cropped” and “capri” are often used interchangeably, but there’s a subtle difference that can help you choose the best length for your shape and style.
Capri pants traditionally hit around mid-calf, just below the knee. They offer more leg coverage and are perfect for women who prefer a modest, breezy style that keeps them cool while still feeling polished.
Cropped pants, on the other hand, tend to hit higher on the ankle or just above. They give a slightly longer leg line and can feel a bit more modern and tailored, depending on the fit.
Both styles are fabulous for warmer weather, but here’s a quick guide:
- If you’re petite or want to lengthen your legs visually, cropped pants that hit above the ankle might be more flattering.
- If you prefer more leg coverage or a classic summer look, capris that fall mid-calf are the way to go.
Whether you go with capris or cropped styles, the key is balance, pairing them with the right top and shoes makes all the difference.
Wide-Leg Linen Capris That Keep You Cool
Talbots Wide Crop Washed Linen Pull-On Pants – Riviera Stripe
These linen capris are light, breathable, and great for hot days! The wide-leg shape feels modern while the stripe adds a touch of fun. Pair these with a crisp white t-shirt or a sleeveless blouse and ballet flats for a relaxed yet polished look.
- Breathable linen for warm weather
- Easy pull-on waist for comfort
- Style tip: Add a straw tote and sandals for a coastal vibe
Soft, Structured White Capris That Feel Like a Dream
Talbots Organic Cotton Interlock Wide-Leg Cropped Pants
I LOVE a great pair of white pants. These cotton cropped trousers are a dream if you want softness with structure. The wide-leg fit is flattering while keeping you cool, and the white color works beautifully with colorful tops or printed blazers for brunch or casual meetings.
- Soft organic cotton for comfort
- Wide-leg silhouette for a modern look
- Style tip: Pair with a bright linen blouse and low kitten heels
Polished Yet Casual Everyday Capris
Chico’s Poplin Cropped Pants
Want something a little more casual? These Poplin Cropped Pants are lightweight yet polished, perfect for travel or lunch dates. The clean lines make them easy to wear with flowy tops or fitted t-shirts. Add sneakers or sandals for errands or dress them up with a statement necklace.
- Poplin fabric keeps its shape
- Cropped length for easy styling
- Style tip: Pair with a tucked-in tee and slingback flats
Feminine Linen Capris with a Scallop Hem
Chico’s Linen Scallop Hem Crop Pants
These linen capri pants have a nice, feminine touch with the scallop hem detail. They’re giving me Roman Holiday vibes, lol. How great would these look paired with a pretty white shirt or a breezy button-down? Add strappy sandals and a sunhat for a vacation-ready look.
- Linen fabric for breathability
- Scallop hem adds a playful touch
- Style tip: Perfect with kitten heel sandals and a woven tote
Flattering Shaping Capris for a Sleek Silhouette
Spanx SuperSmooth Stretch Twill Cropped Wide-Leg Pant
You can always count on Spanx for the win! If you like a bit of shaping support, these Cropped Wide-Leg Pants are your friend. The stretch twill fabric smooths without being tight, making for a flattering silhouette. These would work great with a tucked-in blouse and ballet flats for a sleek look.
- Stretch twill for comfort and smoothing
- Wide-leg cropped design for a fashion-forward look
- Style tip: Pair with a blazer for casual Fridays or meetings
Polished Mid-Calf Capris with Parisian Vibes
Nordstrom Coco Capri Pants
How’s this for a lovely detail? These bring the Chanel-inspired polish to the Capri Pants with their sleek cut and comfortable fit. They’d be lovely with a structured blouse or light jacket; these will take you from errands to dinner effortlessly.
- Polished silhouette with easy comfort
- Mid-calf length for a classic look
- Style tip: Add ballet flats or kitten heels for a Parisian touch
Slim-Fit Denim Capris for Casual Summer Days
Capri Jeans for Women High Waisted – Amazon
If you’re looking for denim capris, this high-waisted pair gives a slim, comfortable fit perfect for casual days. Pair with a relaxed t-shirt or a striped tank for a weekend look. These also work well with sneakers for errands or casual outings.
- Stretch denim for comfort
- High waist for a flattering fit
- Style tip: Add a lightweight jacket for cooler mornings
Easygoing Lounge Capris for Comfort at Home
Real Essentials 3-Pack Wide-Leg Capri Lounge Pants – Amazon
For lounging or casual days, these Wide-Leg Capris are ideal. Made with soft, breathable fabrics, they’re perfect for working from home or casual coffee dates. Pair with a tank or tee for maximum comfort.
- Soft, breathable fabric for lounging
- Wide-leg relaxed fit
- Style tip: Pair with a tank and slides for errands
Classic Jean Capris That Never Go Out of Style
Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda Capri Jean – Amazon
Ann Margaret vibes, anyone? These Capri Jeans are a classic with their slim fit and comfy stretch. They’re easy to style with almost anything in your closet, from t-shirts and tanks to flowy blouses. Add sneakers or sandals to keep it casual, or dress up with a statement necklace.
- Classic denim with a capri length
- Stretch fabric for comfort
- Style tip: Wear with a tucked tee and belt for a defined waist
How to Style Capri Pants for Women Over 50
Pairing the right top with your capri pants keeps your outfit feeling fresh and modern. Here are a few style tips that work especially well for women over 50:
- A t-shirt or tank tucked in defines your waist and elongates your silhouette.
- A structured blazer over a tucked blouse creates a polished look for casual meetings.
- Flowing tops pair well with slim capris; fitted tops work best with wide-leg styles.
- Add a statement necklace or scarf to bring attention upward and add a pop of color.
- For a casual outfit, pair capris with sneakers or sandals; for dressier events, opt for kitten heels or ballet flats.
Final Thoughts: Capri Pants Are Back and Better Than Ever
Capri pants are truly having a comeback, and I think they’re better than ever. With so many flattering, comfortable options available, there’s a pair for every shape, style, and budget. Whether you prefer breezy linen, tailored cotton, or classic denim, finding the right capri pants for women over 50 is all about fit, proportion, and a little personal flair.
So tell me, which pair are you excited to try this summer? Do you lean toward wide-leg, slim-fit, or lounge-ready styles? Let me know in the comments, I’d love to hear how you’re styling your capris this season!
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Found it! 😊 I love cropped pants for summer.
😀 I love the look on some people but I’m one of those people with short legs where cropped might not be cropped enough (but I can roll up the right style!) and most capris never hit the right spot. That said the SPANX crops are my perfect regular inseam for flats! Yay!
Anne, I love that you are thinking outside the box. Cuffing your pants is a great idea!
So fun!! 😊
How often do you change your PJs? (Twice a week)
When do you switch out your towel? (Twice a week)
What is your style in fashion? (Modern & Polished)
Which is more important to you? (Comfort)
Do you meal plan? (Yes, every week)
Lipstick or lip gloss? (Lipstick with gloss on top)
🙂
Oops-forget to answer the questions.
Style over comfort most of the time
Weekly meal plan
Gloss
☺️ Love the comfy wide leg capris!
Comfort
No
Lipstick or a tinted balm
Comfort
No
Glossy
😊 comfort
No
Glossy
No capris for me!
😀. Love the wide leg capri lounge pants. They look so comfortable!
🙂 love capris outside
meal plan weekly
lip gloss
very glossy
Comfort but make it stylish
Usually wing it for meals
Lipstick with gloss on top
Comfortably stylish
I try to plan my meals
Lipstick every- single- day! 🙂
Change pj’s every 2-3 days
Change linens every week
I think I am missing some! 🙂
Blessings,
😊I prefer lipstick as long as I have lip balm.
Crop pants but never capris. As I’m getting older I prefer comfort. However I still want stylish pieces. I mostly plan my meals. I change pj’s daily and towels every other day. I can’t imagine a week. lol.
Love that linen top. 😊
I’m petite, so I favor crops, rather than capris. Slim-straight leg or trouser leg (not too wide).
I wear lipstick and makeup everyday
I plan meals for the week
I dress casual classic, with comfort, and style
I like crop pants
I am going a little wider in pants
My answers to your latest survey:
1) Comfort
2) I meal plan sometimes two or three days in advance, sometimes in the morning, and unfortunately, sometimes I finish working at 7:30 and have no idea what to do about supper! (That’s when I wish that my husband, who retired 24 years ago!!!!! would take some initiative. I don’t know why he expects me to decide on what to eat every darned day.
3) Lipstick, though I also like gloss. Gloss just doesn’t last as long or give as much color pay off. recently I have been mixing Jones road miracle balm with bright powder blush for a semi-matte lipstick that lasts for hours without drying my lips the way liquid matte lipsticks do. I cannot wear liquid matte lipsticks (Maybelline lip ink, here’s fussing about you) two days in a row without making my lips dry and flaky.
style & comfort
no
glossy
🙂 lots of options
😊 I prefer a slim capri.
comfort, with style
wing it
lipstick
☺ Loved all these choices since I never wear shorts! I like the Chico’s cropped pants! Right now they have a great semiannual sale on.
😊
I personally have issues with wearing cropped pants, as they remind me of being a child and wearing pants that I’d outgrown. I’ll occasionally wear capris, but prefer to just wear shorts or skorts.
Comfy with a little bit of style.
Nope- usually eat out. 😝
Lip balm/chapstick
🙂. Thank you for all the help with Capris and Cropped pants!!
😀 I love capris
Comfy
Not really
Gloss
Help! I use IG occasionally and I follow you, BUT … I have never known what “stories” are! Direction would be SO appreciated.
So, when you open your Instagram app, you will notice circles at the top of the page with peoples photos in them. Those are the stories. So, if you see my photo in a circle, click on it, and my stories will start playing.
☺️ I’m leaning toward linen everything this summer including capri pants! It’s just too hot!
😀 OK fine thanks and nice pants variety
No, husband does the cooking:)
Comfort
Gloss
Lots of good choices. :}
Comfortable AND stylish
Yes, I meal plan (and shop weekly)
Lipstick
And I love those Coco capris. Wow. I’m holding out for city shorts to come back to the U.S. Just brushing the bottom of the knee cap and straight cut. Maybe next year Italy will send them over? LOL.
comfy
wing it
gloss
comfort
Hardy never plan
lipstick
🙂 Love the 1st orange blouse
🙂
These are all just so darn cute!
🙂 Capris and cropped pants fill my closet. I like being casual yet stylish. accessories make the difference! I’m lipstick girl all the way!
I wear capris in the summer rather than shorts, but I am starting to rethink my choice. I think I need to wear cropped pants instead. Good information on both. 🙂
Comfort but stylish
I wing it
Gloss always!!
🙂 I really liked the dressy capris. Comfort, plan most dinners, lipstick and gloss.
Questions:
Both
Husband cooks, buys daily food
Lipstick
😊
Both comfy and stylish when possible!
Shop for sales in the beginning of the week but wing it after that.
Tinted gloss unless I’m going out fancy.
Comfortably stylish
Yes, I plan my meals
Lipstick 💄
Slimfit
Comfy & Stylish
No
Lipstick & Glossy
😊So many great choices
Comfy
No
chapstick
Comfort
Nope
Glossy
Dress for comfort with a little bit of style
Wing it for dinner
Lipstick with gloss over it
😉 I had just ordered the denim capris from Amazon
Love Gloria Vanderbilt
brand. She’s my go to❤️
🙂 I really enjoy a nice pair of denim capris.
Comfort
I usually wing it for meals but occasionally I do plan out meals.
Lipstick
Makeup most days.
Lipstick always.
Meals…freezer pretty well stocked to pick from.
😊 Hmmm, comfort or style is a hard one. I kind of like to be stylish but as I get older comfort is more important I think. Sometimes I meal plan but not every day. Lipstick for me! I like the Chicos poplin crops and the Amazon capri jeans.
Comfort or style…comfort wins but it needs to be stylish
Meal plan…wing it
Lipstick
I’m liking Amazon wide leg capri but too hot and humid to wear pants now
I like comfort and style and do meal plan but wing it some too
I also like to wear lipstick and gloss
Capris are my go to. Lots of great options here. 😀 comfort, wing it most of the time and chapstick.
🙂 More a fan of cropped than capris. I like the longer line.
😊 Ann-Margret?!? If ONLY I looked like Ann-Margret in her capris… My capri style would have to be wide leg and lounge ready.
🙂 I used to wear capris but no longer think they are my best length. And do not even want to try the “skinny” capris that are tight fitting at all. Cropped is more for me!! Thanks for posting for everyone!!
🙂 🙂 This was made for me. I’m a capri gal in the summer. (Or skorts!)
I like comfort
1/2 & 1/2
Lip gloss
🙂 OK, Tania, you’re supposed to help us look younger and not frumpy. Some of these capris are going to have us ladies looking like grannies. lol
Style, but love comfort too
Meal plan every week
Lipstick all the way
Thank you, love your blog.
🙂style, no meal planning and lipstick all the way ! No capris for me I’m team cropped pant.
🙂 I prefer the cropped pants
😀I saved the stretch capris on my Amazon list!!
😊 my preference is cropped pants. In the warm weather, I like the way pants but above the ankle .
🙂
Comfortable style
Yes I meal plan
Lipstick
😊 I wear both cropped and capri. Being petite both can work but I prefer cropped.
😀 I like the cropped pants but no Capris for me.
Great content
I’m on instagram and haven’t seen the questions
🌼Dress for comfort
🌼🌼Flexible menu for the week
🌼🌼🌼chapstick
🙂 I LOVE capris!!
Style
No
Glossy
😃 I abandoned cropped/Capri pants a few years ago. My fanny and skinny legs just don’t look good with this style. But a thinner me would love the Coco capris😂 I have got to learn Instagram, I don’t understand stories and how to see them. Brain exercises coming up!
Susan
😊I like to wear wide leg capris.
My answers are:
Comfort
No
Lipstick
🙂 I like cropped ankle length pants. I don’t think I will ever go back to capri style.
comfort
no
glossy
🙂 I prefer the cropped length since i am a short gurl!
😊love white pants, can update, dress up or down. Always love your different options to wear.
🙂 I usually pick comfort over style. I don’t meal plan I usually just wing it. And I rather lipstick over gloss.
Love the orange pintuck top from Talbots. I have it in the beige color.
🙂 Love the first Talbots outfit! Great post!
Comfort
No
Gloss 🙂
Great post.
🙂 I prefer the slim fit capri. I am petite, short. I feel the regular length pant gives me a taller more put together look.
However, the wide leg linen pants are very comfortable.
Your photo styling gives me great information on what is trending. Thanks
style
no
lipstick
For some reason I cannot answer your questions on Instagram. Comfort or style? I won’t wear anything that is not comfortable (I finally accept that), but I want to look and feel good.
I do a meal plan (not by day, but we choose from the weekly menu I made which is hanging on the refrigerator depending on what we are feeling.) I use Tarte Maracua Juicy Lip Plump. I rarely wear makeup for every day use, but I try to remember to put something on my lips.
I haven’t uploaded today’s questions yet, I usually load them between 9 and 9:30.
😎 I really prefer cropped pants over capri as a petite. I like poplin ones.
🙂 I prefer the crop length!
🙂I’m liking crop more than capri length right now.
🙂 almost forgot to answer the questions: comfort, yes every week, glossy.
🙂 Gloria Vanderbilt is great for shorter length pants for us petites
Found it🙂. I like cropped jeans/pants and I really like the jeans you showed from Amazon, however since I’m petite (5’2” & shrinking) I can’t really shop pants from them.
My answers for today’s questions are: comfort, wing it & gloss
🙂 As a petite that wears regular pants capris become cropped! 🙂
😀You show some really cute capris but being short I avoid capris as I think they make me look out of proportion.
🙂 I definitely like cropped pants.
😊. Love the orange pin tuck blouse from Talbots. I was there yesterday and picked up several outfits. I like style, but with comfort, if that makes sense. I do not meal plan because our lifestyle is very fluid. Due to feathering, I generally choose lipstick, usually MAC.
🙂 To answer your questions It is comfort for me wing it for meals and lip gloss. Love crops because they elongate my legs.
Comfort. wing dinner.
I forget the other question.
My favorite way to wear capris is with a tee and white tennis shoes.
🙂
I like capri and cropped.. look best when they hit your leg at the right spot! I am not on social media… how fun are your polls?! So, i prefer comfort at home but style for an occasion, i do meal plan for the week and lipstick for just a little color.
Found it 🙂 Good to know that capri’s are still in.
😊 Thanks for sharing so many options! I am hooked on wide leg pants, especially capris! I find them to be very flattering with all body types as well as age group.
🙂🙂 Found them
1. Style
2. No, I wing it
3. Lipstick!
🙂You always explain things & give great suggestions.
I always wear mascara & lip color when I’m staying in. It makes such a difference😉
I found it 🙂 As someone on the short-side, I prefer cropped over capri but everyone one of us is different. Thank you for sharing your finds.
😄found it – I love capri pants and our weather in OK is such I wear them 9 months of the year – no leg hugging for me so wider but not super wide are my favs! Straight/full leg in almost every color are in my closet.
Loaded the Amazon trio in my cart!
😀 huge fan of cropped pants over capri
😊I’m petite, so the cropped pants are more flattering on me. I still wear a pair of Chicos white capris that have a cute eyelet and fringe hem. In recent years I’ve been weeding out my capris in favor of crops despite their popularity.
Meal plan-it’s just the 2 of us and it’s easier to cut down on waste. Plus we both like leftovers.
Lipstick with a little gloss on top.
I like wearing cropped pants with tshirt and jean jacket.
Found it 😊
😊I bought the linen wide leg capri.
found it!
I lovvve capris plus Bermuda shorts. A little special hem accent, like those bowties and scalloped edges, add a sweet flair.
Also, for your survey: comfort, every week, glossy.
I’m going to have to search for you on Instagram. I don’t always see your posts there, and I like the surveys you’re doing! 😊
😊 You look amazing in the white cropped pants with the orange top. So pretty Tanya.
🙂
It gets confusing. They seem to cross lines.
😊
Not a fan of capris and would probably pick the straight cropped jeans out of all of them.
🙂 I really like both capri and crop pants.
😀the fitted denim are my favorite
found it!
Really like the Talbots capri pants.