Can you still be funky in bootcut jeans!?

[Teachermumof3]

I posted earlier about feeling apple shaped at the moment (size 12-14, 5 foot 3, diminishing waist, increasing arse, good legs, big boobs, age 34) and I really don't think that skinny jeans suit me-I look like a triangle!

Does anyone out there wear bootcut jeans and feel they don't look like their mum!?

Where can I buy decent jeans that are slim on the thigh but fit on the hip-has anyone tried the Levi Curve ID ones?

I hadn't realised that boot cuts were so 'over' until the other day on the Style & beauty thread (which I rarely read - for obvious reasons ).

I only ever wear boot cuts, I am very 'chunky' and skinny jeans would look absolutely horrendous on me - I don't think I look my mum - but she wears polyester slacks !

I also only wear bootcut jeans, I'm pear shaped and short and skinny jeans are made for tall skinny legged people if you ask me!

Recently got some from River Island which even my hubby complimented me on (unprompted!) - they're stretchy bootcut ones, about £40.

What about flares or wide legs? For a change?

They're not over at all, still selling in all the brands and in all the shops!
Haven't tried the Curve ID ones but will as soon as poss. I'd say pay a bit more for a pair that's well made and suits your figure. Skinnies aren't for everyone and in fact lots of people I see wearing them would probably look better in another style tbh.

Oh FFS better to be a shape needing bootcuts in bootcuts than a shape needing bootcuts in skinnies! And vice versa! Some people should not ever wear skinnies or straights, some people will never "need" bootcuts and can't "do" flares.

Do what works for you. I personally believe any "look" can be modernised or made funky or sassy or whatever if you know how. I don't always know how, but I 100% believe there is someone out there who does!

As long as you're not wearing mum boots with them you should be fine

Mum boots

and bootcut jeans

so what boots should we be wearing? Eyes clarks 20% off webpage...

I really don't suit skinny jeans and still wear bootcut. Am 5' 9", size 14 with reasonable norks. If I wear skinny jeans (without boots) I look like a clown.

BUT I do buy most of my clothes from charity shops so am not too picky.

I like to try and look reasonable and think, most of the time , I manage it. Wear what you like, can afford and feel comfortable in.

What are mum boots?

New Look do really nice stretch bootcut jeans for £9.99

Another thread on here said Falmer jeans at Matalan were good. I'm going to check them out.

I wear bootcuts and widelegs. I just don't 'get' other things. I did try some skinnies on. I looked horrendous.

Mum boots

I've got some of those boots ( not exactly, mine are rounder toes and brown, got them last year, from M&S)

I wear bootcut jeans (5'5" size 12 bum half)

I'm a mum. Twice.

Do I get a prize? Eh Eh

I bought two pairs of curve id jeans in Florida last month. I'm v big without much waist but with v big boobs. I bought slight curve in a 20 in boot cut (with stilettos and pretty tops not mum boots!) and skinny (my legs are pretty shapely and they will be worn with knee high duo boots and tunics), they fit so well! The other two sizes were ok but to fit my non waist tended to be bigger in the bum. Lovely dark denim and so comfy! I'd recommend but try on if that's possible over here.

Oh and I think sizing is a bit smaller than you'd think. I'm a 20 pretty consistently here in bottoms nut needed a US 20 jeans.

Style isn't what other people dictate. I wear both bootcut jeans and skinny jeans, and am not going to be told by a fashion journalist or their acolytes that bootcut are over

Actually, bootcuts have been out so long, they're now in.

I wear bootcut jeans. I don't care. I'd rather people had the vague sense that I was unfashionable than the certain knowledge that I have the powerful thighs of an England scrum half in high heels.

Yes, but don't wear them too short, don't wear them with black boots and stop using the word 'funky'.

They're coming back. Gucci are doing flares. I need a pair of these and a lottery win to buy 'em!

I have been wearing low rise boot cuts since before they were invented, in that I used to wear vintage Levi men's jeans as a teenager when women's jeans all seemed to have a tapered leg and high waist (or of course you could have gone for the spray-on snow wash option with zips on the ankles).

I love 7 for all Mankind in NY dark.

Agree re length though. Do not have the bottom swinging around your ankles

Whats wrong with looking like my mum? She is incredibly funky! Id rather wear boot legs and look like my mum than wear skinnies and look like one of those God awful students that walk round my town, with their arses and muffin tops hanging out of too tight trousers that look like they are only held up by sheer good luck! IMO only about 10% of the population should wear them, the rest just look terrible!

I don't think jeans are for everyone anyway..there are loads of jeans crimes scratching around the highways of the UK

I'm not sure why we see them as such a holy grail item. Generally they are only good on the long limbed and slim or teeny tiny. Even then the wrong cut can ruin you.
Better to get some decent trews I think

No skinnies here. There's a difference between fashion and style, y'know...style is knowing what suits you.

Time for a Munsnet campaign to bring back boot cuts into polite society?