Sonam Kapoor & Natasha Poonawala
Sonam Kapoor & Natasha Poonawala

It’s one of our favorite reasons to dress up: the races are on! Clearly, the celebrities are going gaga with their hats and dresses. Remember this Sonam Kapoor & Natasha Poonawalla bonding sesh? We most definitely do because we’ve been scouring our wardrobes to get this look, until we stumbled upon a genius idea: instead of the men, why don’t we wear the pants to the races this time? Here are 8 fabulous ways to do it. Let’s take a little celebrity inspiration, shall we?

1) Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone

Deepika multi-tasks her outfits with class. A white pant-suit with an embroidered blazer is a perfect option.

2) Aditi Rao Hydari

Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Rao Hydari

Keep it colorful if you’re going for a matchy-matchy pant-suit – like Aditi’s blue number.

3) Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston

Here’s another great example of a matchy-matchy pant-suit. Although, you might want to leave your shirt on, maybe?

4) Emma Watson

Emma Watson
Emma Watson

THIS is monochrome done right.

5) Sophie Choudry

Sophie Choudry
Sophie Choudry

Another example of monochrome done right! You can’t go wrong with this color combination.

6) Emma Stone

Emma Stone
Emma Stone

If she can wear pants that awesome to the red carpet, there’s no reason we can’t wear them to the races.

7) Carol Gracias

Carol Gracias
Carol Gracias

This one is a more toned-down version of Emma Stone‘s trousers and supermodel Carol Gracias is wearing them! It doesn’t get much better than a combination like that.

8) Alia Bhatt

Alia Bhatt
Alia Bhatt

If you don’t want to wear a shirt, you can always wear a vest instead. The vest and pant suit has never looked cooler.

Whatever combination you choose to go with, you don’t want to land up at the races in a full black pant-suit. Keep it fresh, flirty, and day-time just like all our gorgeous celebrities have. And if you want to add that crazy hat you’ve been dying to wear all year round, there’s no rule that says you can’t rock it with pants!