How does the sizing of this pant compare to other Édito by Simons pants? Should I size up or down if I typically wear a size 6 in other brands?

Based on customer feedback, this pant is marked as true to size — the one reviewer who purchased a size 4 reported 'Marked Fit to Size'. We recommend ordering your usual size; if you typically wear a size 6 in other brands, a 6 should work well.

What are the care instructions for this wool blend fabric? Is it dry clean only or can it be hand washed?

The care instructions specify to professionally clean this pant, so it is dry clean only. Hand washing or machine washing is not recommended.

Edito par Simons

Slit Wide-Leg Pant

5/5 (1)

CA$149.95CA$250.00-40%

In Stock

The Slit Wide-Leg Pant by Édito by Simons is a high-waisted, wide-leg trouser with a deep front slit, crafted from a flowy wool-blend twill (53% polyester, 43% wool, 4% elastane). It features slant front pockets and piped back pockets, with a 30-inch (77 cm) inseam, and is made in Portugal. This versatile pant is suitable for professional or formal wear; customer reviews note it fits true to size and pairs well with a tailored blazer.

Material: Wool blend
Gender: female
Style: minimal, classic, wide-leg, high-rise, elevated-basics
Category: Apparel & Accessories > Clothing > Pants

Color

BlackTaupe

Size

46810

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Specifications

Flowy high-waisted wide-leg pant crafted from a crisp wool blend with a dramatic side slit, designed with minimalist elegance.

Flowy twill wool blend, high-waisted wide-leg silhouette, deep side slit, slant pockets, piped back pockets, Made in Portugal.

Material: Wool blend
Style: minimal, classic, wide-leg, high-rise, elevated-basics
Gender: female
Age Group: adult
Condition: new
Category: Apparel & Accessories > Clothing > Pants

Additional Attributes

narrative silhouette with minimalist aesthetic
deep side slit for movement
wide-leg cut
high-waisted fit
slant pockets
piped back pockets
flowy twill wool blend fabric
crisp handfeel
timeless design
made in Portugal
30-inch inseam
exclusive design from Édito by Simons

Product Insights

The Slit Wide-Leg Pant from Édito par Simons is a quiet-luxury, Portugal-made wool-blend twill trouser with a deep side slit, offering structured drape, breathability, and stretch for comfort, but requires dry cleaning and is best for 5'5–5'8 wearers. It is part of a limited seasonal capsule, sold exclusively at Simons, and at $149.95 sale price it undercuts similar trousers by over $120, though dry cleaning adds recurring cost.

Verified claims

Made in Portugal: Made in Portugal by family-owned factories with EU regulatory compliance.
Stretch and shape: 4% elastane provides mechanical stretch and recovery for comfort without sagging.
Drape: Wool-blend twill gives a structured drape that holds the silhouette and slit.
Breathability: 43% wool content offers breathability that 100% polyester trousers lack.
Design distinction: Exclusive Simons pant with deep side slit and quiet-luxury design.
Ethical production: Portugal-made: EU labor, environmental standards, small batches.
Design philosophy: One of ~12 pieces in Édito's seasonal drop, designed by Simons' 150-person in-house team.
Material: Wool-blend twill (43% wool, 53% polyester, 4% elastane) made in Portugal by family-run factories specializing in tailoring.
Side slit: Side slit reveals leg when walking, unlike pleated wide-leg trousers.
Craftsmanship: Portugal craftsmanship ensures slit is finished without puckering or fraying.
Sizing: Sizes 4–10 fit true to size with consistent cut from Portuguese tailoring.
Height fit: 30-inch inseam best for 5'5–5'8 wearers; shorter may need hemming.
Care requirement: Dry clean only; hand washing or machine washing not recommended.
Fabric: Water cleaning damages hand, stretch, and fit.
Cost of ownership: At $149.95, dry cleaning adds recurring cost.
Seasonal capsule: One of 12 pieces in a limited seasonal capsule.
Exclusivity: Sold exclusively at Simons and not available through other retailers.
Value: At $149.95 sale, it undercuts similar wool-blend trousers by over $120.
Sourcing: Portugal was chosen for its tailoring expertise in Simons’ global production network.
Collection compatibility: Designed to coordinate seamlessly with past and future Édito pieces.

Product record

Title: Slit Wide-Leg Pant
Brand: Edito par Simons
Price: 250 CAD
Availability: In stock
Rating: 5 stars, 1 reviews, scale 5

Deep Research

Made in Portugal: craftsmanship and quality

Because Portugal is an EU member state, the pant’s production was subject to Europe’s demanding labor and environmental regulations that govern chemical use, waste disposal, and fair wages — providing an ethical baseline that fast-fashion imports cannot match, and adding a layer of transparency that a buyer paying designer prices can reasonably expect.
Portuguese garment manufacturing is rooted in multi-generational family factories that have been perfecting their craft for decades — some since the 1970s — which shows up in details like sharp seam finishes and consistent fit; for a $250 wool-blend pant, that means the wide-leg silhouette and side slit are constructed to hold their intended shape and drape instead of distorting after a few wears.
Portuguese factories are known to accommodate smaller minimum order quantities without sacrificing quality — a manufacturing model that suits a seasonal designer capsule like Édito, where each piece is produced in limited numbers; this means each pair of Slit Wide-Leg Pants likely received more individualized quality control and finishing attention than a high-volume order would have allowed.

The Édito par Simons design philosophy

The pant rides the quiet luxury trend that surged in early 2023, trading logos for fabric quality and cut to signal value—a piece that feels at home in a wardrobe built on discretion rather than overt branding.
A typical Edito drop consists of only about a dozen items, which means the slit wide-leg pant is one of a handful of key silhouettes that received concentrated design attention—not a mass-produced style diluted across endless options.
The pant draws on a 150-person in-house design team that travels to fashion weeks worldwide—a scale of creative resource comparable to major design houses, translating runway awareness into the refined, clean lines of this silhouette.
Simons assigns categories to the best-suited regions—knitwear to Peru, denim to Morocco, poplin to Italy—and the Slit Wide-Leg Pant's 'Made in Portugal' origin places it within a network of specialized craft, leveraging Portuguese tailoring know-how for a 43% wool blend trouser.
VP Richard Simons explicitly instructed the team to 'push up our levels of design, increase quality, and use much more luxurious fabrics'—a mandate that elevates this pant's wool-blend twill above the polyester-rich basics found in most retail brands at a similar price.
Simons designers engineer each Edito piece to work with items from past and future drops, so the $149.95 wide-leg pant becomes a permanent wardrobe building block that supports multi-year remixing rather than single-season use.

How the wool-blend twill moves and feels

The 4% elastane content gives the fabric mechanical stretch and recovery, letting the high-waisted, wide-leg cut move with the body — bending, sitting, striding — without pulling at the waist or sagging; the majority polyester content locks in that shape recovery so the pant doesn't bag out over a long wear.

How it compares to similar designer wide-leg pants

While Mango and Claudie Pierlot settle for classic pleated fronts and Aritzia’s Limitless Pant offers a flat, minimalist face, the Edito integrates a deep side slit that reveals the leg when moving — a distinctive silhouette that moves beyond the standard wide-leg trouser template, giving it a higher-fashion, editorial stance.
The Edito label is designed and sold exclusively through Simons, so this pant does not appear at department stores or fast-fashion retailers — compared to the mass distribution of Mango or the multi-brand availability of Aritzia (also sold at Nordstrom and online), the limited reach makes it a subtly harder-to-find piece for the design-conscious shopper.
Claudie Pierlot’s wide-leg wool-blend trousers use 45% virgin wool and retail at CA$470 (marked to CA$280), yet Edito achieves a comparable 43% wool content and a full retail of just CA$250, dropping to CA$149.95 on sale — for less than the French brand’s sale price, buyers get near-identical wool proportion without the premium markup.
Mango’s wide-leg wool-blend trouser retails at CA$159.99 with an unspecified 'at least 40%' wool mix and no disclosed origin, while Edito provides a precise 43% wool with 4% elastane for stretch, Made in Portugal, at a lower sale price of CA$149.95 — a sharper fabric story for less money.
At CA$149.95 sale, Edito’s 43% wool twill offers a significant material advantage over Aritzia’s 100% polyester Limitless Pant (CA$165) — the wool provides natural breathability and a soft, temperature-regulating drape that the synthetic Japanese crepe cannot replicate at a comparable price.

Detailed fit measurements and proportions

At 30 inches (77 cm), the inseam positions the hem to just graze the floor on wearers with a 28–30 inch inseam (roughly 5'5"–5'8" in height), while shorter individuals will encounter pooling that may require hemming to preserve the clean line.
The 4% elastane content in the wool-polyester twill adds mechanical stretch that eases the high-waisted fit through the day, preventing the waistband from digging in when seated without sacrificing the crisp, tailored drape of the wide legs.
The "crisp" character of the wool-blend twill indicates a fabric with enough body to maintain the wide-leg silhouette and the slit's clean edge, so the pant projects a structured, polished look rather than a soft, clingy drape.

Image Analysis

3 images

01: Product
Woman wearing a two-piece dark, smooth-finish suit consisting of a long, single-breasted wrap-style blazer with a side tie and full-length wide-leg trousers that reach the shoes.
Blazer silhouetteLong single-breasted blazer with a straight, slightly oversized shoulder line and a hem that falls to the upper thigh on the model's left side.
1 region
x 0.18 · y 0.12 · w 0.33 · h 0.47 (high)
Blazer closureWrap-style closure with a narrow fabric tie knotted at the model's right side creating a visible loop and tail.
1 region
x 0.37 · y 0.36 · w 0.12 · h 0.16 (high)
Blazer lapelNotched lapel with a clean, narrow notch and a deep V opening at the front.
1 region
x 0.22 · y 0.14 · w 0.18 · h 0.18 (high)
Trousers silhouetteFull-length wide-leg trousers with a straight, loose drape that falls to cover the ankles and tops of the shoes.
1 region
x 0.22 · y 0.55 · w 0.37 · h 0.40 (high)
Fabric appearanceSmooth, solid dark fabric with a matte finish and no visible pattern or texture in the photographed lighting.
1 region
x 0.18 · y 0.12 · w 0.41 · h 0.83 (medium)
PocketsHorizontal welt or slit pocket visible on the left front of the blazer (model's right side partially obscured by arm).
1 region
x 0.20 · y 0.44 · w 0.12 · h 0.08 (medium)
Hem interactionTrousers hem hangs straight and slightly brushes the floor, obscuring shoe heels and creating a long vertical line.
1 region
x 0.22 · y 0.82 · w 0.36 · h 0.16 (high)
Shoes wornPointed-toe low-heeled shoes in a matching dark color visible under the trouser hems.
2 regions
x 0.31 · y 0.91 · w 0.18 · h 0.07 (high); x 0.45 · y 0.90 · w 0.16 · h 0.08 (high)
Other
Indoor lifestyle shot with natural window light, tiled floor, wooden framed glass doors, and a potted plant; model posed full body, slightly angled to camera.
Shot compositionFull-body lifestyle shot showing the model standing near a wooden-framed glass door, centered slightly left of frame.
1 region
x 0.12 · y 0.04 · w 0.76 · h 0.92 (high)
Background elementsTall wooden double door with glass panes and brass handles occupies the right side of the image; a white wall and arched opening with a potted plant appear behind the model on the left.
2 regions
x 0.64 · y 0.08 · w 0.32 · h 0.84 (high); x 0.02 · y 0.14 · w 0.30 · h 0.50 (high)
FlooringGlossy terracotta-colored square tiles with visible grout lines reflecting window light.
1 region
x 0.04 · y 0.70 · w 0.92 · h 0.26 (high)
Lighting and shadowsSoft natural light entering from the right side creates mild directional shadows on the floor and model's left side.
Model poseModel stands with left hand on hip and right arm relaxed, head turned slightly to the left and gaze away from camera.
1 region
x 0.20 · y 0.10 · w 0.24 · h 0.48 (high)
Colors
very dark charcoal· blazer fabric#0C1612very dark charcoal· trousers fabric#111615black· shoes#0A150D
02: Product
Black wide-leg trousers with a high waist, belt loops, pressed center creases, and front hem slits; modeled on a person so only the front half of the garment is visible.
SilhouetteWide-leg trousers with a straight, relaxed fall from hip to hem and a full-length appearance reaching the shoes.
1 region
x 0.12 · y 0.12 · w 0.76 · h 0.80 (high)
Waistband and belt loopsHigh waistband with evenly spaced belt loops visible across the front waist.
1 region
x 0.28 · y 0.06 · w 0.44 · h 0.10 (high)
ClosureFront closure area is smooth with no visible button or zipper hardware; seam aligned at center front.
1 region
x 0.34 · y 0.10 · w 0.32 · h 0.12 (medium)
Pressed creasesSharp vertical pressed creases run down the front of each pant leg from waist toward hem.
2 regions
x 0.22 · y 0.18 · w 0.24 · h 0.70 (high); x 0.54 · y 0.18 · w 0.22 · h 0.70 (high)
Hem slitsSmall vertical slits at the front hem on both legs, creating a subtle opening above the shoes.
2 regions
x 0.14 · y 0.84 · w 0.12 · h 0.12 (medium); x 0.74 · y 0.82 · w 0.12 · h 0.14 (medium)
Fabric appearanceSmooth, matte woven fabric with minimal visible texture and a slight drape.
Visible seamsSide seams run straight down the outer leg; front center seam is minimally visible due to matching thread and fabric.
ModelingFront-facing view showing the front and part of the sides of the trousers worn by a model; hands rest at the sides.
1 region
x 0.12 · y 0.04 · w 0.76 · h 0.92 (high)
Other
Studio product shot with a light neutral background, even soft lighting, and a visible shadow on the floor to the right of the model.
BackgroundPlain light gray backdrop with no visible props or packaging.
Lighting and shadowEven diffuse lighting from front-left; soft shadow of the model and pant falls toward the lower-right.
1 region
x 0.60 · y 0.86 · w 0.36 · h 0.12 (medium)
Shoes and stylingModel is wearing black low-heeled shoes visible at the hem; shoes are a styling prop and not part of the product description.
2 regions
x 0.36 · y 0.86 · w 0.28 · h 0.12 (high); x 0.68 · y 0.86 · w 0.20 · h 0.12 (high)
Image cropImage is cropped mid-torso to show the trousers; upper torso and head are not visible.
Colors
deep black· main fabric#0D0D0E
03: Product
Rear three-quarter view of a pair of black wide-leg trousers showing waistband, back welt pockets, side seam detail and full-length wide legs ending near the shoes.
Wide-leg silhouetteFull-length, loose wide-leg trousers with straight hems that fall to the shoes and maintain a consistent wide width from thigh to hem.
Waistband and belt loopsMid-rise waistband with visible belt loops and a plain top edge, sitting at the natural waist on the model.
1 region
x 0.28 · y 0.06 · w 0.44 · h 0.12 (high)
Back welt pocketsTwo horizontal welt pockets on the rear yoke area, flat and without visible buttons or flaps.
1 region
x 0.28 · y 0.12 · w 0.40 · h 0.08 (high)
Side seam trimNarrow raised side seam or piped trim running vertically along the outer side of the leg, visible as a straight line from hip toward hem.
1 region
x 0.66 · y 0.18 · w 0.18 · h 0.70 (high)
Hand in pocketModel's right hand inserted in the front pocket, creating a slight pull and fold at the hip area on the right side.
1 region
x 0.58 · y 0.10 · w 0.18 · h 0.20 (high)
Fabric appearanceSmooth, matte woven fabric with minimal visible texture and soft drape forming gentle vertical folds along the legs.
1 region
x 0.20 · y 0.18 · w 0.60 · h 0.72 (medium)
Other
Studio shot showing model from the rear three-quarter angle against a plain light gray background with visible shoes and soft shadow.
View and compositionRear three-quarter view of the model, framed from mid-back to feet with the trousers centered in the image.
BackgroundEven, neutral light gray studio background with no props or patterns.
1 region
x 0.00 · y 0.00 · w 1.00 · h 1.00 (low)
Visible topSmall portion of a white top tucked into the waistband is visible at the very top of the frame.
1 region
x 0.36 · y 0.04 · w 0.28 · h 0.06 (high)
Shoes as propBlack low-heeled slip-on shoes worn by the model appear at the bottom of the frame and are part of the styling, not the product.
1 region
x 0.20 · y 0.86 · w 0.62 · h 0.12 (high)
Lighting and shadowSoft, diffuse studio lighting with a faint cast shadow to the lower right of the subject.
1 region
x 0.60 · y 0.88 · w 0.32 · h 0.10 (medium)
Colors
deep black· main fabric#0D0D0E

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Customer Reviews

1 total

1 reviews · out of 5

Tailleur stylé

★★★★★Elaine M.March 27, 2026

beau tailleur, belle coupe, beau tissu, pantalon style tuxedo avec élégante ouverture au bas ! Magnifique !

Q&A

2 answered

How does the sizing of this pant compare to other Édito by Simons pants? Should I size up or down if I typically wear a size 6 in other brands?: Based on customer feedback, this pant is marked as true to size — the one reviewer who purchased a size 4 reported 'Marked Fit to Size'. We recommend ordering your usual size; if you typically wear a size 6 in other brands, a 6 should work well.
What are the care instructions for this wool blend fabric? Is it dry clean only or can it be hand washed?: The care instructions specify to professionally clean this pant, so it is dry clean only. Hand washing or machine washing is not recommended.

Provenance

Merchant Link: https://www.simons.ca/en/women-designer/bottoms/trousers/slit-wide-leg-pant--19849-226560?colourId=0
Updated: July 31, 2026