Employer wearing retro type of pants? (8)
I believe the answer is:
trousers
'pants?' is the definition.
('trousers' can be a synonym of 'pants')
'employer wearing retro type' is the wordplay.
'employer' becomes 'user' (I've seen this before).
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'retro' says the letters should be written in reverse (retro is Latin for 'backwards').
'type' becomes 'sort' (I've seen this before).
'sort' back-to-front is 'tros'.
'user' inserted inside 'tros' is 'TROUSERS'.
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for trousers that I've seen before include "Garments fro the nether regions" , "suit section" , "Nether garment" , "pockets" , "Nether garments now worn by either sex" .)