Okay so what's the knack - wearing ankle boots with skinny jeans?

[Millie1]

So, I finally found a nice pair of ankle boots yesterday but can I get my skinny cords to look right with them? No! Admittedly the cords have a 33" leg which my legs aren't quite long enough for . How should they sit? Tuck them in and they look really tucked in and daft. Out and over the top of the boots looks plain stupid. What length should my cords be? Do I need to get the cords taken up? Roll them up .

Help please!

An alternative would be to wear long/chunky socks, tuck the jeans into them and scrunch the socks down, so they just poke out of the top of the boots.

This works best as a casual look i.e. with a long woolly jumper and flat ankle boots, not if you are heading off for a night out.

Make sure you're wearing dark socks, I often wear white or pink and it looks dreadful!

Oh I don't have them visible like the above post, but I'm sure the socks peak out in between boot and jean to wave at theworld!

I wouldn't worry about someone calling them mum boots . It is now obligatory to call any boot linked to a mum boot on S&B!

Quite Dexter. I'm currently wearing Pistols which are mum boots according to some on S&B - they're wrong though

I don't even know what a mum boot is any more nor do I care!. Pistols are yum and are definitely not mumboots or are they....

I was going to say socks to, the boots are quite narrow so might need something chunky!!

Nope, only ankle boots with mid-low blocky heels.

Pistols .... mum boots? No waaaay.

Dexter - IIRC you also bought the Uniglo skinny cords ... and then told the rest of us how wonderful they are! Did you order either of the purples? I'd like an aubergine colour and think that one of the purples looks the right shade - the darker one. You don't have them, per chance?

You are correct - I have the burgundy colour cords and my mum boots are these. They sort of just wrinkle up and sit on the top of them. I do the 'pull on and go' look as you could go mad worrying about how your jeans/boots combo looks!

Those are not mum boots.

Not that I'm an expert or anything.

I want the bootcut cords in the colours that the skinny cords come in, dammit.

(yes, shoot me, I like bootcuts)

I want the skinny cords in the navy that the bootcuts come in!

My rule with super skinnies and ankle boots is that the boots have to be flat and slouchy otherwise it doesn't work.

Hmmm. Okay, so let's approach this from another angle. What should I wear with my mum boots?? They're the first pair of non flat boots, or shoes for that matter, which I have bought for about 5 years and I want that extra 2"!

Dexter thanks - I was pretty certain you had purchased one of the two purples. Navy would be nice! Though you linked to the super skinny jeans in another thread and they come in navy - an alternative? Am going to order them with the cords as I really need another pair of skinnies.

It doesn't matter if boots are mum boots as long as you like them :)

I want the aubergine cords.

Superdry superskinny cords are very good too.

I am too short for flat ankle boots - I need the height of heels for leg lenthening purposes.

The Uniqlo superskinnys are very skinny. I have them in the blue and they are lovely. I am tempted to get tem in navy too. If you spend over £60 use the code ocado10 and you will get £10 off.

Shall take a look, thank you, MrsCB - what sort of rise are they? I need a generous medium rise!!

Thanks for that code Dexter - will be using it.

I just tried the code but it didn't work - perhaps it was a singe use one?

oops no, it does work, just I cut and paste and there was a space - thanks!

Glad it worked!

I have this problem too - am in process of buying new flat but hopefully non frumpy ankle boots (Russell and Bromley are current front runners) and going into shop to try them on with various jeans is driving me mad. How to wear with skinnies a particular problem.

dexter when you say your cords sort of wrinkle up over your Clarks boots ( I know and like that style - it's on my possibles list). But don't you find it spoils the way the skinnies hang on the rest of the leg? That always seems to happen to me.

No it is just at the bottom that they wrinkle. The rest of the cords are ok!

Don't start me off!

This was a revelatory year for me - the year in which I finally understood the joy of skinny jeans. Despite my terror, they have proved to be total life changers. In a good way.

But now it is cold, and ballet flats won't cut it any more. And I'm wishing I hadn't thrown out my many many pairs of bootcuts, because I'm damned if I can make skinnies work with any form of shoe that has laces.

Struggling also with tucking into boots. Just not sure about the whole thing. They don't tell you this on that bright sunny day when you buy your first skinnies and prance gleefully in front of your DP, soaking up the compliments.

Anyone want my uniqlo grey cords. Bnwt 29 inch waist ? Grey. 25 quid.

Are too big.