This business about skinny jeans being over?

[KeepthePower]

I keep hearing it but I can't see any evidence.

Earlier this week I travelled almost the whole length of the District Line, from East London, through the City and West End out to Wimbledon and back, over the course of about 10 hours.

I'd say at least 97% of women, of all ages, from very young to not so young at all, were wearing either skinny jeans or very slim leg trousers. I saw one group of young women all wearing wide leg, ripped jeans and a few wearing joggers. That it. This would be a mixture of tourists, Londoners going about their business, working people and people out for the evening.

I had coffee in the City, lunch in a West End restaurant, drank in a swanky West London pub, attended a sporting event. Honestly skinnies everywhere.

I looked because I'd worn a skirt rather than skinny jeans and it was raining, so wide leg ones are horrible. Didn't see many skirts either Certainly very little evidence that no one's wearing skinnies any more.

Mumsnet have been saying skinnies are out for a few years now. I think it’s more a desire of the posters than any reality 😂

The truth of the matter is plenty of people of all ages still wear skinnies and they are still hugely popular. But so are other Jean styles, mom, boyfriend, dad, flares, straight blah blah blah. Basically anything other than boot cut, which despite the magazines trying, not many are biting.

@Trake

I’ll be glad to see the back of them. Wide leg/baggies/mum/dad jeans come on over!

You don’t need to be a deducted follower of fashion you know. You can wear any jeans type you like. 😃

Plenty of people are still wearing skinnies but they’re hardly fashion forward. The fact that good old M&S have a myriad of styles that are not skinny should tell you that skinny jeans are no longer the only fashionable option, which is the position we had before. Lots of options are still ok with boots - boyfriend style for example. It’s not just skinny or super flappy.

@Bluntness100

Mumsnet have been saying skinnies are out for a few years now. I think it’s more a desire of the posters than any reality 😂

The truth of the matter is plenty of people of all ages still wear skinnies and they are still hugely popular. But so are other Jean styles, mom, boyfriend, dad, flares, straight blah blah blah. Basically anything other than boot cut, which despite the magazines trying, not many are biting.

I agree, maybe there’s a subtle campaign to get rid or push mum jeans 🤣.

The problem with the wider legs/bootcut for me is that I wore them in the 90s so I associate them with being a pre-teen and not an adult. I also know the horrors of wearing bootcut jeans in the rain 🤣

I think we’re in a happy position where there are loads more styles of jeans available in the shops and anything goes. It’s great - I’m in London and I see wide leg, slim, straight, mom, flares, and yes - skinny!

I noticed a distinct lack of them when we spent a few days in London.
Lots of long silky skirts with thin jumpers or t-shirts, loads of Spice Girl style cropped tops and flares, long dresses with denim or leather jackets, saw a lot of straight jeans with a big turn up too.
Where we live the vast majority of people seem to wear gym wear or skinny jeans, the difference in London was really noticeable.

Fashion often has an Emperors' new clothes element, doesn't it? My teenage DD and her friends are wearing boyfriend/mom jeans and - slim and lovely though the girls are - they look rather sloppy

And why do boys never wear crop tops?

Needless to say, DD does not entertain any input from mother

I see a lot of young people wearing high waisted baggy "mom" jeans, and there are loads of them in the shops. But equally still a lot of skinny jeans.

Wear what you want and don't worry about it.

Still a huge mix out there I think.

Also primark (which I'm not saying is the pinnacle of fashion) still has loads of skinny jeans which my 15 year old still likes and buys.

I have a pair of Levi 721s which I like as they are slim and not skinny and I recently bought another pair of slim jeans. I'll still be wearing my skinny jeans too though.

I really don't like how boot cuts look- I really don't want to go back to those- they are so impractical too!

If retailers are still selling skinny jeans, they're not over. However, the fashion press is always pushing the next big thing, hence the disconnect.

Skinny jeans aren't going anywhere, and nor for that matter are any other style of jeans. As long as jeans are in demand, there will be a wide range of styles of denim. Supply and demand, innit.

My 16 and 18 yr olds are not wearing skinnies any more, they have pinched DH’s baggy 1990s Levi’s this week and some 90s combats (DH never throws clothes away)

But that’s just gen Z

Older people (40+) still wearing skinnies

@sansucre

If retailers are still selling skinny jeans, they're not over. However, the fashion press is always pushing the next big thing, hence the disconnect.

Skinny jeans aren't going anywhere, and nor for that matter are any other style of jeans. As long as jeans are in demand, there will be a wide range of styles of denim. Supply and demand, innit.

I think this is true! Love we have choice

@Hardbackwriter

What are you counting as skinny/slim leg? Where I live I see very few flares/wide legs, but almost everyone under 40 is wearing something a bit like this which I think are slim cut but not skinny.

I love those!

Posted too soon. Where are they from @Hardbackwriter?

@MarleneDietrichsSmile

My 16 and 18 yr olds are not wearing skinnies any more, they have pinched DH’s baggy 1990s Levi’s this week and some 90s combats (DH never throws clothes away)

But that’s just gen Z

Older people (40+) still wearing skinnies

My DSs discovered my 1990s Maharishi combats and wear them all the time.

@BeautifulBirds

Where can I buy these baggy, wide leg jeans?!! I loathe skinnies.

Me too. At last the fashion that works with my body shape is back! I have hated the last decade of constricting parsnip legs.

I was sitting doing a similar survey the other day and saw barely any skinnies let alone jeans at all in my "not London" small city. That may be because it's a bit hot for jeans still so most grown women were wearing skirts/dresses/jumpsuits/jersey joggers/linen trousers. We've not had London's wet weather.

The only people wearing jeans were teens (and men) and each group that walked past were almost literally half skinnies and half baggy/Mom jeans. I remember thinking how sweet that they weren't completely copying each other and had a mix of styles in one friendship group.

I’m fed up with wearing skinnies, but wear ankle boots a lot and no other style of jeans seems to work with them??

The fashion press has been saying that skinnies are over for a long time, but recently non-trendy shops have started selling something but skinnies so I think it is actually 'taking' now. Skinnies are one of those trends that have been in 'too long' in fashion terms but real women refuse to give them up - this is true of the 'long, loose top on top, tight on bottom' silhouette in general, which hasn't been 'in' for ages but most women have continued to wear because it's easy, comfortable and arguably flattering.

But as fashion shifts, slowly what looks 'right' to you changes. I remember when my friend bought a pair of skinnies when we were in sixth form (would have been 2004) and I thought she was mad and that they looked terrible. Then they started looking ok but I thought they weren't for pear shaped people like me (as a size 14 34 year old I now can't imagine why my size 10 17 year old self thought that my hips could be too wide for anything, but that's by the by!). Then they were ubiquitous and looked right and I starting buying them too. Now they're shifting to not looking right again and I'm finding myself trying on the jeans that a few years ago I thought were ridiculous, and that last year I thought were nice but only for slimmer people than me...

They're these ones @robotcollision: www.newlook.com/uk/womens/clothing/jeans/blue-slouch-nia-balloon-jeans/p/660138240. I just googled 'mom jeans' and picked a picture that looked like what I was thinking of though, so I can't attest to them myself!

Not sure why people are saying Gen Z are wearing wide leg and over 40s (Gen X) are wearing skinnies. Like there’s a whole generation (hello millennials!) missing here 🤣🤣

Also the fashion industry just wants you to throw your stuff away so you have to buy it again when it comes back around. Sustainable fashion does not make them a profit 🤣

I live in central London and I very rarely see skinny jeans anymore, maybe still on some blokes, but that’s about it.

I’ll keep my skinnies to wear with boots but I’ve never been a fan of long or loose tops, so maybe I’ll get halfway there.

It doesn’t really bother me as fashion passes me by. I have never stopped wearing low rise bootcut jeans and baggy cargo pants. I have nothing high rise in my wardrobe and I doubt I ever will.

Boot cut works with ankle boots. Oddly enough.

I still have my jeans from when I was 16. Topshop and proper denim, not stretch.They've got a big rip in the knee. They look nothing like any of the jeans that are apparently 90s.
I also have my German army shirt and a band t-shirt I nicked off a boyfriend. I could be so 90s it would burn the eyes of any young pretenders

I live in a very studenty/ young city in NW. Skinnies are generally not seen on women of any age that much.

I'm on holiday in Kent and I'm surprised by how many skinnies I've seen on 30 plus women, plus some younger women.

I think skinnies definitely have their place. For me, they are useful in winter with boots, although I think more women are opting out of jeans. Leggings, yoga pants, etc.