What's happened to skinny jeans??? (light hearted)

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31 year old here. I've just been told by a Gen Z girl that skinny jeans are now uncool. When I asked her what is seen as "cool", she replied with wide legged or mum/boyfriend jeans. Both look horrific on me - like a sack of potatoes! I've had a browse on ASOS and indeed, it showcases tall, lithe models donning high wasted, 90s style mum jeans with a turned up hem.

Please comfort me Mumsnet, and tell me that my 15 year staple is still acceptable?!

I'm 41 and was in my prime in the 90s when these were out.Ive read so many times that if you wore them the first time round then you're too old to wear them the second.This has stuck with me and I darent move from my beloved skinny!

30, 5'9 and 15stone.
I'm not giving up my fucking skinny jeans.
I've got an hourglass figure and no one would know it if I was wearing bloody boyfriend or mum jeans.
No no.
It took me so long to embrace skinny jeans as large lady. Lots of convincing from my slim sister that, in fact, they're more flattering for people my size. They hold you in, pull you up and compliment your curves rather than drowning them.
They can pry my skinny jeans off my cold dead legs.

I am 55 so no one cares what I wear.Ever since I have had hair I wake up with my side parting in the same place just work around it .

I am so glad to finally see the back of skinny jeans. Can’t stand ‘em.

I'm delighted. I'm a thunderthighs and skinny jeans looked ridiculous on me.

I lost quite a bit of weight towards the end of last year, and discovered a pair of high waisted straight jeans that hadn't fitted me since the late 90s. Tried them on and they fitted brilliantly.

When I wore them to my SIL's, my 19-year old niece was in awe of my trendiness, and immediately told SIL that she needed to ditch her bootcuts and get a pair like mine.

I remember discussing the Death of Skinny Jeans with my friend ages ago. And now I think about it, he moved to Australia in 2013, so we’re talking a full 8 years ago.

It seems they didn’t die at that point, after all.

I've noticed a lot of younger girls wearing those black trousers that are tight fitting at the top but flared at the bottom.
It makes me laugh because we used to wear those trousers for school in the late 90s/early 00's. I actually asked DH why so many people are wearing school trousers

@Selkiesarereal

Go to style and beauty as there is a big thread about jeans but yes apparently skinny jeans are out!

@Selkiesarereal could you link to that thread please? This struggle is real!

Why are they called mom jeans when none of us mums want to wear them? 😂

By the way you can still buy skinny jeans in good old M&S

I personally am celebrating the return of wide leg jeans and flares, but mostly because my calves no longer fit into skinnies at all...

@Lolly49

I am 55 so no one cares what I wear.Ever since I have had hair I wake up with my side parting in the same place just work around it .

It’s great isn’t it?!

@Lolly49

I am 55 so no one cares what I wear.Ever since I have had hair I wake up with my side parting in the same place just work around it .

Isn't it more the case that you don't care what anyone thinks?

I was gutted when BOOTCUT jeans went out of fashion. God, I loved them. The most flattering pair of jeans. Ever. I hope they eventually come back. I know you can still but them but they currently look dated.

@PandemicAtTheDisco

I saw a grey-haired wrinkly old man in his skinny jeans earlier this week. They were slipping low over his bum. Since then I've lost all desire to wear them again.

This did make me laugh.

Last summer when the lockdown lifted my DH (58) went shopping for jeans and literally the only ones that were in the shops for men were skinny jeans.

Once the likes of M&S start selling only skinny jeans for men you know that it's no longer something that teenagers will want to be seen in.

Becoming a ‘mom’ has put paid to me ever pulling off ‘mom’ jeans. Ironic. 😆

Skinnies 4eva

Ah, who cares if they’re in style or not.

I don’t want to look like a 33 year old stuffed into a 20year olds style. I wouldn’t wear a jumper or blazer with cycling shorts either which seemed to be a thing not so long ago.

Wear what you want, be they skinnies, mom jeans or a bin bag. Who gives a fuck

Yes, why the bell are puff sleeves also back? In 5ft with broad shoulders and they make me look like a giant square

This whole thread encapsulates the 'denial' stage of grief.

Let me know when bootcut is back.

I wear whatever I want.

A part of me is probably always in fashion.

That'll do me!

@YukoandHiro

Yes, why the bell are puff sleeves also back? In 5ft with broad shoulders and they make me look like a giant square

So presumably you don't wear them?

And if others want to-who gives a fuck?

I resisted skinnies and stuck to my boot legs until the thigh rub killed the inner seams. I'm pear shaped so look more balanced with a boot cut (although straight leg is pretty close to it on my thighs!) Fortunately I'm muscular enough that I look fairly shapely still.
I struggled with the logistics of getting calves and jeans into a pair of boots. Calves alone are a challenge!

My main criteria is waists. I've always been generous in the glutemus maximus, so hipsters were always a bit brutal to sit in, but by the time I've sized a skinny to clear my thighs, there's spare inches of pant viewing gallery at the back (please never let thongs return, I shunned the garotting bastards first time round) I need a high waist and good bum coverage.

I have noticed that my elderly knee length stripey socks are creeping back into use as legs are loosening. They were great against flappy legs in the late 90s

If you're in your 30's, 40's or beyond then Gen Z are supposed to think you're uncool! That's just the natural order of things. There's no point changing your style in a futile attempt to keep up with teenagers. A 40 year old in Mom jeans still looks like a 40 year old, so you might as well just wear what you want. If Millennials start wearing Mom/Boyfriend jeans and parting their hair in the centre then those things will very quickly become tragically uncool too and fuck knows what nonsense will replace them!

I work in a school and the Sixth Former's all dress like I did in the 90's. But back when I was in Sixth Form I remember my Mum looking at what me and my friends were wearing and saying "I should have kept all my clothes from the 70's because they're obviously all back in fashion!" I probably rolled my eyes and thought she was talking rubbish

I have skinny, bootcut, cropped and possibly other styles of jeans. Some are 20 years old so vintage I suppose :) and I wear what I fancy in the day. Who cares what anyone says.

[quote LadyWithLapdog]@babbaloushka yes, huge jackets. Really unflattering colours too. Mustard? Brown epaulettes? Sloping shoulders. Eurgh. With a tiny crop-top underneath. I can’t even say take that ugly jacket off as she’s barely dressed under.[/quote]
I honestly think we might have the same DD. Or maybe they are all some sort of hive mind