Palazzo pants: To buy or not to buy?

My Facebook feed reminded me that, exactly 12 years ago, I was considering buying palazzo pants. I found this astonishing because that day I had been looking at palazzo pants, and I had not mentioned it to Facebook — or anyone else, except my husband, Peter. Peter did not even know what palazzo pants are.

'You know, they have really wide legs,' I told him.

'Isn't that what you just bought?' I honest…