Brown knee boots with jeans

[suddengate]

Are brown knee high boots over skinny jeans still a thing? I may be out of touch...

If not, what's the alternative?

If this combination is still acceptable can anybody recommend some boots please? Not flat, but low enough for the school run. I should also add that I have quite chunky calves!

Anybody?

Yes it's over as in it's not fashionable. But plenty of people wear it! It's not like you'll look like you're in fancy dress.

Anything that 20-somethings wore 15 years ago is out of fashion, whatever it is, because that's the length of time it takes for a popular look to be dropped by everyone except the a-fashionable. This is why the mum boot gradually evolves its look. It's not a specific boot, it's a boot worn by a 35-40 year old woman who is still wearing basically what she wore in her early twenties. Same as mum bob etc. Kate Middleton wore the hell out of the skinny jeans, knee boots, and breton top look in about 2007 so it's 100% done now as fashion.

I'm not endorsing this btw, just observing it. I like skinny jeans and I wear them. I don't give a monkeys!

I think skinny jeans are supposed to be on the way out. Plenty still wear them though (me included).
I wear them with ankle boots though slightly rolled up so they end just above/almost at the top of the boot.
Straight cut jeans would look more current.
Having said all that if you want to wear skinny jeans and knee high boots you won't look out of place.

Straight cut jeans and “fashion” hiking boots probably more current and equally practical for school run - not to mention easier to fit if you have large calves.

The only way it looks any good imo is flat boots and even then I don't like it.

Ankle boots / biker style boots with a straight leg jean, ideally rolled up.

Knee high boots are making a comeback, they're all over the place at the moment.

@BoulangerieBabs

Knee high boots are making a comeback, they're all over the place at the moment.

What do you wear knee highs with if skinny jeans are out? Is it under the wide legged cropped trousers? Skirts i guess?

Knee high boots will always be around as they are warm and practical but they are not especially fashionable these days.

I remember reading threads 5 years ago which said that skinny jeans are on the way out. Bit people still like them and we all remember the bootcut in the rain experience. I think some trends outlast the dictates of the fashion world - skinny jeans and knee length boots bring two of them.
My teenage DD has moved on to baggier jeans (mom jeans? Not sure) but she is young and slim. A lot of women would look like a sack in them.
So I say you can still wear them and you won't look odd.

That's just a classic look isn't it.

It's not like you'll look like you're in fancy dress.

I dunno, the whole tights / knee high boots combo does have a certain Robin Hood vibe to it

Thank you all! I had this idea that I'd like to smarten up my everyday wardrobe and this would be it - maybe not

And yes to the mum jeans/sack comment, 2 caesareans have put a firm stop to that sort of style for me 🤦🏼‍♀️

@nitgel that was my thinking too - very glad I checked!