Are boot cut jeans really bad?

[LardLizard]

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1. Fashion has to keep reinventing itself and shuddering at what was a must-have 5 or 10 years ago or it would collapse. So yes we are being conned.
2. Mom jeans are now girlfriend jeans
3. Depends how you wear them

I wear both but always dark denim. Skinny jeans I need to wear quite chunky and matching shoes/boots to balance out my top half or my legs look short. Bootcut need to be just half an inch off the floor at the back and with a fitted top.

I do like boot cut jeans, for a while I was sworn off them but they can look good with the right shoes.

Must admit, however, i'm sworn to my skinnies.

I can't understand the difference between bootcut and flares - to me they look the same!
and I love them, they suit me and I've never given up on them, though I wear skinnies too. Depends what's on top.

agree that they suit tall women or if you wear flatforms/platforms.
Never ever skinny high heels! urgh

God I have two acquaintances who insist on wearing them. One a pair too short.

Move with the times ladies. They just look OLD

My lower legs are one of the few slim parts of my body. So I prefer skinnies, instead of the "tree trunk legs" look of wide legs all the way up and down.

I liked bootcut because they were nice and long as they are made with heels in mind (I don't wear heels). Skinny jeans always leave a couple of inches above my ankles showing which looks a bit odd I think, even with nice socks.

My dd looks great in slimcut jeans, but then she looks great in leggings too. In fact she looks great in most things! I wish she'd stop stealing my clothes and looking better than me in them

I really can't tell what I suit, I only caved into skinnies a few years ago, I'm a flares n trainers gal myself. Thank God im such a hoarder!

My bootcut jeans make me look short and wide. Oh wait, that's not the fault of the jeans. That's the fault of, well, my body shape, which is short and wide.

I can't do skinny jeans. I think the whole fact that someone thinks something can be 'skinny' and a size 18 is fundamentally wrong.

Move with the times ladies. They just look OLD
You mean skinniest?

I don't like the tight knee, wide ankle either... Long and lean weren't tight on the knee like all the new flares/slim flares/authentic flares/call it what you like boot cuts seem to be. Anyone seen anything that is basically genuinely straight all the way down (I agree straight or slim cut jeans do seem to taper!).

The most stylish people don't move with the times. They find their style and stick with it. As fashion copy sometimes says.

It's just a shame that the industry doesn't facilitate being stylish in this way by providing a variety of shapes all the time. It would be such a change for the better if the basic jeans shapes were recognised as classics and remained available. Then everyone could choose what they wanted to wear, based on what looks they like and the shape of their body.

(I love skinnies (and yes, I wore them in the 1980s)).

Whenever I'm in Italy I'm reminded just how flattering they are on certain body shapes.

And how Italian women choose what looks good over current trends.

I'm liking girlfriend cut these days - straight leg, and unlike some boot cut, sit on the waist instead of half way down or up high like Simon Cowell.

thats bollocks about classic clothing - as anyone who bought a navy blazer in the 80s will tell you!

When you age you need to keep your eye out so that you don't look like a dinosaur in that half world between ' vintage' and ' out of date'

I never stopped wearing bootcut: skinny jeans only look good on about 2% of the population and I am not in that 2%! I have long legs and a big bum so bootcuts are more flattering for me.

JackandDiane

You don't seem to be aware of the movement of current trends, so you might take your own advice.

Of course it's not bollocks. Go to France to see the navy blazer looking fabulous, as it has all through.

If you want to keep changing, that's fine.

And classic dressing is also a perfectly good choice.

But it's one which is not well served by current retailers. As the posters who wore (or wanted to wear) bootcuts despite skinnies, or skinnies despite bootcuts will have found out the hard way.

if you got my navy blazer out from then - sheesh
I just don't agree that things don't age. The IDEA might not but the cut and detail does

Bootcuts and skinnies are not exactly classics. The Levi's classic straight, for example, yes.

Navy, by the way, must be the worst colour ever. :)
It's the stuff of cheap uniforms.

It depends, 80s jackets tended to have bigger shoulder pads than would be currently worn, equally 90s bootcuts were looser on the thighs than the new flares which are more like skinny bootcuts.

So sure, some styles are adapted somewhat. But my Levi's 501s from the 80s are total classics - significantly nicer than any of the bf jeans I bought more recently. And my cowboys boots from back then are still the coolest I've ever seen. (They were US originals).

I LURVE navy!

I love navy too. It's probably my most flattering colour - navy, dark green, grey and brown are my best colours.

Navy is great if it's cotton/linen/silk

horrid in polyester or anything else with a sheen (cheap work uniform)