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....?

Meh flowery. You're the one who seems unable to accept an opinion different to your own tbh. Nobody said you look "daft" for wearing a different trouser length. You're the one throwing strong opinions around and now flouncing 🤷‍♀️.

I agree I think it’s all in the styling. You’ve either got to style them with a longer boot. Or keep a short boot with trainer socks and bare ankle showing. I’ll wore a similar boot/sock look at the weekend.

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.
That's pretty much the opposite of what I was trying to say. Let me have another go. My point was, I'm not sacrificing anything. I've seen high waisted trousers come into fashion, go out and come back again. When they're in I see my longer legs and defined waist. Then they go out of style and I notice they make my arse look bigger. Then they come back in again... and so on and on. It's like one of those optical illusions - do you see a face or a vase?

I've been careful to say 'I' and 'me' but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one, which is why I tend to be sceptical when someone says they wear what suits them and that fashion doesn't influence them. Yes it's silly but so are cup cakes and the rules of cricket and many other things that some people find enjoyable.

You’re right that we don’t try and make coats work in the summer but I also don’t think that’s a fair example. Coats are put away for the summer.
Jeans aren’t, so we find a style we like, get used to it, wear it all summer and all of a sudden we need something to replace it in the winter if we can’t make it work. We don’t need to replace coats in the summer or make them work.

Haa! I was accidentally fashionable when I walked the dog on Sunday!
I couldn't be bothered to change out of my 'house socks' (massive,fluffy!) so just pulled them up and put my Timberlands on.

I'm definitely going to do it again now I know it's acceptable

I'd really like to be able to roll jeans up, but my legs are really short and it just looks bad on me (and I get little rubs on my ankles!)

But why do we put coats away for the summer? I'm very attached to some of mine and I'd love to find a way of wearing them all year but they're just too heavy and too warm to work. And I do have to replace them with something else, although I guess that might depend on the climate where you live. As far as I'm concerned it's the same with ankle length. Fine if you don't find them cold or you can make them work with socks but I do feel the cold and it's that flash of bare skin that I like, not the flash of sock. So I put them away, a little reluctantly, and wear something else.

I see what you mean flo, I just think that jeans are an all year round item whereas parkas aren’t so we don’t have any need to try and make them work for a season they’re not fit for but we do with jeans

Maybe we're disagreeing because I don't wear jeans all the year round Itsashame. I hardly wear them in the summer - I find them too warm and heavy . But I do wear ankle length trousers for as long as the weather allows, until I hit a point where I can't get them to work any more.

Yes probably flo. I think the issue here is that we’ve got used to the ankle grazing length of trouser it Jean and we don’t know what to do when it becomes colder. So we struggle to try to make them work.
I’m the same.
I’ve given up skinnies as they don’t suit me and I think they look dated.
I’m not on board with bootleg or wide leg, not so practical for the wet. So what’s my answer? At the moment I’m wearing straight leg jeans, slightly cuffed, with ankle boots and thick socks of the colour as boots and jeans (I wear black a lot)
No ankle gap unless I sit down, at which point I’m inside so all ok!

I think there are alternatives. I'm wearing straight and narrow (but not skinny) leg or wider but tapering towards the ankle (also practical in wet weather). Or this season, midi skirts and knee boots - really enjoying them again.

So....the boots in @GVmama 's lovely photo I like those, any guesses?

I’m still recovering after finding out bootcut jeans weren’t a thing any more.

I like it with the socks!

I’m early 30’s and would say slightly too short but absolutely fine

@LellyMcKelly don’t get rid of them yet!
Everyone I know round my way are wearing bootcuts again 🙌🏻

@hoochymamgu I found the image but no hint of lovely boots heritage.

I think they’re Timberlands

Some people wear what suited them in their 20s. Has anyone tried to buy what was in fashion 20 years ago? Can't even find the type of trousers I bought one year ago. Thise socks will be a treate to have wrapped round your ankles when caught in a downpour. Of course they may well be waterproof.

Are they mum boots though?

They look too long to me

15 years ago I'd have been laughed out of the room for wearing jeans short enough to show my socks or bare ankle. I'd also be desperately uncool for wearing my jeans buttoned up over my belly button. That was something old men did. It was all about low slung hipster jeans that dragged on the ground and soaked up the rainwater (or at least it was in my little world)

Sorry, no particular point to this post, it just makes me chuckle that my fantastically trendy teenaged sister is happily skipping through life wearing outfits I wouldn't have been seen dead in when I was her age.

@LadyFlumpalot so true.
Loved my old wet bottomed hipster bootcuts

Showing ankles and covering the whole midriff so uncool still in my head

I do the sock thing with my dm-alikes

Thanks @threemilesupthreemilesdown

I remember the low slung hipster trousers too! They were an absolute bugger in the rain. Tbh, for all the talk of "tying yourself in knots to follow fashion", the ankle grazers with socks are much more practical in wet weather, than long trousers.

I also love dresses with knee boots in winter. The extra coverage from the boots being higher makes a lot of difference in the cold for some reason. And you can wear thick socks underneath too.