So, is this what length jeans are now?

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Genuinely asking for a friend - are these, erm 'on trend'? Or just a bit too short....?

I'm not young, but I also think they need to be rolled up a bit.

Love the sock idea! Why haven't I thought of that?

I think you need to commit: either rolled up or a touch longer. In the middle just looks like you can't decide.

Up until last week I was wearing ankle length with chunky boots and just a very narrow flash of skin. But, much as I like the look, that's it now until spring. I like fashion but I don't understand why this one is a year round thing.

I wear skinny jeans tucked into knee boots or wellies if it's cold / wet. I don't care if it's stylish or not in terrible weather! But I don't really like tucking into ankle boots, especially low cut ones like the OP's pic. I don't know why, it just feels weird on me.

I have a lovely pair of hiking type ankle boots though, which I'm planning to wear with dresses / skirts and tights on days when it's too cold for ankles out.

You need a straight leg, rolled up with socks and hiking boots 👍

Oh yeah, socks! Thanks .

It’s hilarious sometimes how things unfold, with people clearly uncomfortable with a trend but desperately following it anyway.

Ffs people, remember skinnies are ‘dated’ now so you’re all fucked!

(sarcasm at how trends affect people, not anyone in particular on this thread)

I'm quite curious as to why we're trying so hard to adapt what to me is clearly a spring-summer (autumn at a push) look for winter. This includes me by the way - for the past couple of winters I've tried every kind of sock/boot combo going and every time I conclude that I just don't like ankle length in bad weather. I don't understand why I even think about it - we don't get threads about how to wear parkas or boots in the summer.

It's not the length that's the issue so much there, but you're not supposed to have your socks on display like that.

That length should be worn with trainers, no visible socks, or different boots. Those boots with thr black socks, just don't work with it.

The thing is though, that if you like clothes for anything other than practical reasons, you will end up following fashion to a degree. I don't religiously follow trends and I would never throw out perfectly good clothes because they are no longer trendy. As I said above, if it's pissibg down and cold, I won't be getting my ankles out, but I will find a more current way to dress for the seasons unless I'm doing something very outdoorsy or having a slob day at home.

People who say "I'm above all this fashion stuff. I just wear what suits me" are frequently speaking inaccurately. Even if people think they aren't following fashion, most people are to a degree. Apart from people who wear... I don't know waders so they can fish for trout etc; something made purely for practical reasons.

There are also the people who cling to what suited them when they were twenty, (probably what was fashionable when they were twenty), but those people sometimes stand out for the wrong reasons as well. They say "I wear what suits me" but sometimes it's what was fashionable when they felt they looked the best.

I'm not a fashion victim, but I'm self aware enough to know I will wear what's current, to a point.

I understand following fashion to an extent. But following it to the extent that you’re tying yourself in knots trying to do so without getting too cold is bonkers. All the ‘should’ and ‘need to’ and ‘have to’ on this thread!

If your ankles are cold that means your trousers are too short. HTH.

Meh. I wear bootcuts/straight legs which touch the floor with big fluffy socks and Vans.

Why be cold? What is the point?

Yeah, obviously nobody "needs to". That's an exaggeration / short hand, because this is the S&B page, so the assumption is that people posting here are interested in fashion.

It's not like anyone's saying she needs to burn her whole wardrobe and rebuy everything.

For me, I aim to look current / not totally dated, without buying loads of shitty fast fashion, so rolling up your jeans a bit, not rushing out and buying, idk, paper bag trousers or whatever. Quite a good piece of advice I think, so I can't get worked up about the advice on this thread 🤷‍♀️.

I agree with Beatrice. I think the 'I don't follow fashion - I just wear what suits me' mantra ignores how the whole idea of what suits you is in itself influenced by fashion.
Take high waisted trousers: they make my legs look longer and they also make my arse look bigger. Whether or not they suit me depends on which silhouette is more fashionable.

I don’t think anyone’s suggesting ‘rushing out’ to buy longer trousers. But as someone else said, we don’t ask for advice on how to make winter clothes work in the summer, we buy (or probably already have) cooler clothes to suit the season.

So why tie yourself in knots to make a certain trend work at a time of year when it clearly doesn’t?!

” Take high waisted trousers: they make my legs look longer and they also make my arse look bigger. Whether or not they suit me depends on which silhouette is more fashionable.”

It really doesn’t! But that doesn’t mean don’t wear them. If they are fashionable and you choose to sacrifice your arse looking bigger to look fashionable and make your legs look longer, great.

But sacrificing comfort and warmth for fashion is a different thing.

I've just fixed my skinny jean/ankle boot combo based on this thread so thank you! I wasn't showing any ankle but I was showing some patterned sock so doubly offensive 😀

But it isn't "tying yourself in knots". It really isn't that much of an ordeal. Maybe if you live in the highlands (as I used to, so I know) of scotland, then no, you're obviously not going to have your ankles out in November. But honestly, there is no tying myself in knots to wear this look in winter. Ankles out when warmer (now I live in the tropics of the Home Counties, this is most of the time), and now I've seen the sock thing, which I also love. Some people just enjoy fashion. It really isn't a hardship and nobody "has to" do anything about it. Wear what the hell you want, but you can't really ask people not to discuss fashion on the S&B pages.

I can’t do this footwear to bare ankle/chunky sock and trouser length/width ratio calculation every day ffs, I’m too old and I’m bound to get it wrong and people will be silently laughing at me, I just know it.

You know what though I’m in California and, while the tv meteorologists keep insisting Winter is Coming, if I avoid going outside on the few really cold and rainy days in January and February, I can get away with flip flops for the whole year, so I’m doing that.

If they’re skinny jeans they’re supposed to end just above your footwear.

Oooohh I like those boots in the second image @GVmama!
Where would I find a nice pair like that? Derails thread.

”But it isn't "tying yourself in knots"...It really isn't that much of an ordeal....Some people just enjoy fashion. It really isn't a hardship and nobody "has to" do anything about it. Wear what the hell you want, but you can't really ask people not to discuss fashion on the S&B pages.”

Wasn’t aware I asked anyone not to discuss fashion. I’m doing it myself! I can see plenty of knot-tying by people with cold ankles to avoid just doing the obvious thing (to me anyway) and wearing longer trousers.

My opinion is that either having cold ankles or trying to find a sock/footwear related solution to wearing cropped trousers in the winter months is taking fashion a leetle too far. Others don’t. They and I can all wear what we want. They are free to think I’m unfashionable (although there are plenty of full-length trousers available), and I’m free to think they’re a bit daft.

The idea that whether or not something suits someone depends on what silhouette is fashionable is still tickling me! My body shape remains constant regardless of the catwalk. I will always suit fitted top halves and wide drapey bottom halves. Fortunately I can usually find a ‘version’ of reasonably current trends that allow for that, and don’t involve any knot-tying, discomfort or similar.

But each to their own!

@flowery

Tbh, I think you're either wilfully or otherwise misunderstanding the point flo made. It isn't that your body shape changes, but what is emphasised by the current fashion does. So, at the moment, people wear crop tops (I do not btw) with baggy trousers and massive boots. That really suits some people, but they probably would not suit it if it wasn't in fashion.

When I read books and the author describes in detail what a character is wearing, I very often know what era the book is from just from that description. Or if I watch an old episode of Midsomer Murders, (shut up ), I can tell how old it is. Now, people tend to dress time flatter and express themselves, but most people tend to do so in line with what is currently stylish, to a degree.

You say yourself you find a version of the current silhouette which suits you.

Why is that any less daft than finding a version of this particular look which suits the season?

Again, nobody has said you have to freeze your ankles off. Obviously if it's cold, find a way round it or don't bother, but if you like the look, there are some other ways to wear it in winter, as someone suggested to me up thread.

I don't mind if you think I'm "daft", but I do find it questionable when people rock up to the fashion threads and start droning on about how impractical, frivolous and silly it all is...oh except when THEY do it. That's reasonable obvs. Anything else though, so daft .

Wouldn't say they're 'on trend' no OP- on trend would realistically be a different cut of jeans entirely, a straighter leg, shorter on the leg, worn with different style of boots.

I do an ankle gap and like wearing my straight leg ankle grazes with loafers and trainers but it's getting a bit chilly for that. Time to switch to tights and skirts/dresses!

” Tbh, I think you're either wilfully or otherwise misunderstanding the point flo made. It isn't that your body shape changes.”

I never claimed she said her body shape changes. I merely said mine doesn’t. Therefore whether high-waisted trousers (to use her example) suit me (or indeed her) doesn’t in the slightest depend on whether they are fashionable.

Forgive me for ‘rocking up’, I shall duly rock back to Employment where I belong, and where no one minds people who express a different opinion.

Well, despite my previous rather flip reply, there’s really no ‘knot tying’ involved in following the current trend, Flowery. It’s not that difficult or inconvenient to compensate for the shorter pant length is it? You say ‘wear longer trousers’ while others neatly resolve the comfort v style issue by wearing chunky socks to avoid cold ankles. Win win - on trend and toasty ankles!