Anyone else not like bootcut jeans?

[Sonotkylie]

Just that really? I keep reading that they are back and really flattering so I tried a pair of slim bootcut jeans. Good fit but the flappy bottom material looks weird and they make my (not very long) legs look short and dumpy. Is it just conditioning? I am small and fairly curvy, so I thought these would be made for me but apparently not ...

I love bootcut and haven’t moved on! I hate the way skinny jeans wrinkle around the knees and I never know whether to tuck them into boots or not. I really hope boot cut are coming back

I like relaxed fit “boyfriend” type boootcuts. Definitely NOT the type that cling to your thighs and hips.

PasDeDeux Thank you :) I've seen those, but I thought they were boyfriend jeans. Style is wasted on me.

I HATE them they look so mumsy especially if they are too short. And there is nothing worse than a middle aged man in boot cut jeans and cowboy boots (a dad at my dd's school dresses like this, so Jeremy Clarkson!)

Boot cut jeans in the 90s were made of thick denim, so didn't really flap around a lot. And I can't recall there being any lycra in the mix. I remember hanging onto my bootcut until it was almost indecent.

I prefer straight leg jeans

Young people moved on to skinnies and our mums stuck with bootcut, so bootcut jeans just look like things older people wear to me. I am bored of skinnies, I like mom jeans, topshop Lucas straight leg, and cropped wide legs.

I like wide legged jeans/trousers again though in general, they don't need to be cropped. And I LOVED Gap Long and Lean back in the day!

I always wore bootcut jeans, and was only converted to straight cut jeans about 6 or 8 years ago.

Now I don't like the fit of bootcut and will stick with the straight ones.

I remember the sneer on the girl in New Look's face sometime before 2007, when I wanted new work trousers. I had asked her where the shortcuts were:"we don't sell..those..anymore." I'd been wearing them since the late 90s. I didn't know trousers came in any other shape. I didn't think I'd ever wear trousers again!

I now favour a skinny Jean and wide leg or cropped slim trouser fir work.

I wore bootcut black trousers to work today for the first time in ages and felt really unfashionable in them!! Especially as I was working at a university today so there wasn't another bootcut in sight - all skinny jeans!!

Personally I much prefer the shape of bootcut and straight leg jeans and they are far more flattering for pear shapes than skinny jeans.

I am desperately bored of skinnies now but I can't see students being parted from them in a hurry from what I saw today

Wear what suits you!

Straights and skinnies make my legs look like parsnips or sausages.

I wear my boot cuts.

I have not stopped wearing bootcuts - admittedly only a slight bootcut and only occasionally. I also wear skinny jeans. I won't wear low rise ones.

I think it's just conditioning because when bootcut were in fashion we all loved them and everyone talked about how flattering and leg-lengthening they were.

I'm not looking forward to the frayed, wet hems again though! I really don't want them to be back! And it would be much cheaper if I can just keep wearing my skinnies as I would need to buy new ones.

Bootcuts in the rain though. That soggy slapping against your ankles. Grim.

Dunno.

Have some bootcuts and they make my legs look thin so I wear then. Skinnies give me parsnip legs too.

However, if you wear skinny jeans with knee high boots they do balance those chunky of thigh.

I hate them.

Very frumpy and unflattering.

Occasionally I go out in a pair of flares. Now they really are flattering and make my bum look lovely and pert. I have wide shoulders, so can wear a silky blouse for a 70s vibe. Dh hates them, so I canvassed the opinions of the young folk in my local pub. I win.

Bootcut jeans are vile

I didn't buy jeans for years when all there wa available were racks of boitcut.

It makes legs look fatter - because legs are meant to taper, so widening what should be the narrowest part just adds chunk Ines.

But, some people really like how they look.

So I hope that manufacturers will start to produce staple shapes (skinny straight, peg, bootcut) all the time. Then we can all be happy

I didn't buy jeans for years when all there wa available were racks of boitcut.

It makes legs look fatter - because legs are meant to taper, so widening what should be the narrowest part just adds chunk Ines.

But, some people really like how they look.

So I hope that manufacturers will start to produce staple shapes (skinny straight, peg, bootcut) all the time. Then we can all be happy

I didn't buy jeans for years when all there wa available were racks of boitcut.

It makes legs look fatter - because legs are meant to taper, so widening what should be the narrowest part just adds chunk Ines.

But, some people really like how they look.

So I hope that manufacturers will start to produce staple shapes (skinny straight, peg, bootcut) all the time. Then we can all be happy

I haven't worn jeans in ages as I was struggling to find the right fit. Bought a couple of pairs of Gap curvy boots before Christmas & they've changed my life. Everything looks better. I'm a size 16, curvy, very long legs, shorter torso. They're so my fit.

Sorry about the triple post (especially as it begins with a dreadful typo). The page froze, and it looked as if it hadn't posted at all. So I refreshed a little over-enthusiastically.