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.

I agree the silhouette will shift to straight. I think it's also complicated because as pp said there's always that element of showing off body/clubwear eg love island which follows its own trend & I think a lot of female population prefer loose tops, we don't have the same shape as years ago. Waist cut out dresses are everywhere in the shops but I think I've seen one person in one.

I'm lusting after some big oversized Raey jumpers & I like them with the narrower leg.

But Asos has a huge target market.

That's the point, it's one of the biggest online fashion stores. Why would you discount them?

@countrytown

I agree the silhouette will shift to straight. I think it's also complicated because as pp said there's always that element of showing off body/clubwear eg love island which follows its own trend & I think a lot of female population prefer loose tops, we don't have the same shape as years ago. Waist cut out dresses are everywhere in the shops but I think I've seen one person in one.

I'm lusting after some big oversized Raey jumpers & I like them with the narrower leg.

I think it's true that the huge trousers and crop top look is going to be one for the teens - I wore it in the early 2000s, 20 years, two stone and 2 children later it's not for me this time around! Like with a lot of fashion, sort of the point of it is that it's not universally attainable as a look. But I don't see that there's any reason for wider legs to not make a comeback in a more subtle way. The absolute consensus in the 90s was that bootcuts were very flattering and 'balanced you out' (see: Trinny and Susannah), that was one of the reasons that skinnies were initially greeted with horror by many.

Bootcuts are a funny one as they've been trying to come back for a while. I'm not sure why they haven't managed it. I think it doesn't help that they are quite hard to update so unless you're young you look like you've never changed your style & I think the footwear trends of hiking boots, lug boots, trainers, clumpy sandals don't help as bootcuts tend to look better with a heel.

Bootcuts haven’t really been out long enough for them to come back. They didn’t really start disappearing properly until mid to late 2000’s. It’s usually a 20 year cycle.

They are creeping back in trousers though. Dd wants bootleg leggings.

I remembered the Stone Roses etc tried to bring flares back. In the very early 90’s. But they were just to early. It took until later for them to filter through properly.

bootcuts tend to look better with a heel.

I wear them with a heel. I have to roll them up if I take my shoes off.

I've a feeling flares might be coming up on the rails, but the style I've been seeing isn't that easy, forgiving cut as immortalised by Gap Long n' Lean. (I've still got a pair of them at the ready.) These (described upthread) are fecking scary.

@Floisme

I've a feeling flares might be coming up on the rails, but the style I've been seeing isn't that easy, forgiving cut as immortalised by Gap Long n' Lean. (I've still got a pair of them at the ready.) These (described upthread) are fecking scary.

Oh my god, I had a pair of long n lean that I adored at university (when I was indeed long n lean) but had entirely forgotten about! I don't still have them, and would struggle to get one leg in them now if I did...

I thought it was much earlier then that. I'm sure I was wearing skinny's in the mid 00s & everyone who I knew was but maybe it was just my bubble as I was already in buying then.

I have ordered, and sent back, a pair of Maje cropped wide legs and a pair of Levis 501. Currently waiting for a pair of Gap straight legs to arrive. I think what principally bothers me about skinnies being on the way out is that I have about 8 identical pairs of them in black and navy which have been my go-to jeans for the last 13 years. All Topshop, picked up on ebay. Now I suddenly feel horribly dated in them, but I don't actually want to stop wearing them and at a time when we're all supposed to be caring about the environment more it feels wrong to chuck out 8 pairs of perfectly wearable, flattering jeans that I still like the look of myself in just because trends have changed. (I also loathe jeans shopping with a passion and would have happily worn these for another 13 years at least.) But I do still happen to care that I now feel semi-conspicuous in them because in my (generally quite stylish but very conformist) neck of the woods, almost no-one is in skinnies any more and certainly not those under 40, which is my own current demographic and therefore makes me feel even more conspicuous. Aaaaargh. What to do?!

I think low rise might be trying to come back, please God no!

Now I suddenly feel horribly dated in them, but I don't actually want to stop wearing them and at a time when we're all supposed to be caring about the environment more it feels wrong to chuck out 8 pairs of perfectly wearable, flattering jeans that I still like the look of myself in just because trends have changed

Keep wearing them!

At some point they MAY start to look odd but that’s not now. They might not be current but they are fine.
They certainly haven’t joined the category of ski pants with under feet elastics yet!

All the teens are in flares now but not bell bottoms more wide leg flares.

@RaspberryThief have you tried Topshop editor jeans they are a nice cropped straight leg, doesn't help sustainability though.

They certainly haven’t joined the category of ski pants with under feet elastics yet!

Victoria Beckham was wearing a version of these the other day. I zoomed in because I thought I was seeing things!

@Dancingonmoonlight

They clearly are fashionable if so many peoooe are still wearing them.

My 70+ aunt has a number of friends all wearing beige chinos and striped tops who think they are the height of fashion or ‘modern’ as she calls it 🤣🤣🤣

For people who "don't care about fashion" you all seem to get very upset at the thought that a skinny jeans outfit is no longer the height of fashion.

I'm happily middle aged and I don't try to dress like a teenager, but I like to keep "current" and I think that is the key to style. But as ever, to each their own.

Everyone follows trends. Even though who say they don’t. The cuts change in the shops, you have to buy something to replace and the cut or silhouette will have changed slightly.

Those who don’t ‘follow fashion’. I don’t see them wearing 1960’s dresses or hideous she’ll suits.

I’m relieved skinnies are over as they’ve been around for 2 decades now. They’re comfort’s own self and that’s the trouble! I’m wearing non-stretch wide-leg and relaxed as well as straight leg. Have to be non-stretch denim. As a long and lean person, skinnies tended to make me look even longer and I don’t like that. (Whispers quietly because it could cause a riot - I hope those ubiquitous sister wife and floral tent dresses worn with trainers disappear soon too!).

I'm far from a fashionista and don't think it matters but I don't see any young women or girls in skinny jeans now.

For young trendy people in the south east skinnies are definitely no longer in fashion and haven't been for ages. Asking my DD21 and DS19 they wouldn't be seen dead in them.

Those who don’t ‘follow fashion’. I don’t see them wearing 1960’s dresses or hideous she’ll suits.

Yep, even people who make a song and dance about not following fashion or being into clothes do have preferences (e.g. my in-laws, who are very superior about not having any interest in clothes but who appear to notice/care enough to recoil in horror if I put the DC in any clothes with a visible brand name). And those preferences always shift a little as the world around them does, either because of availability or because, as I noted up thread, what looks 'right' changes without you really noticing as it does.

@PalmsandCharms

Let's face it, mumsnet is hardly the height of fashion knowledge. Take what you read on here with a pinch of salt.

Indeed. Especially as it all seems to be based on what teenage DDs think. I'm with the OP, skinnies are still everywhere and the other styles too. That's the great thing about fashion these days, anything goes (although not on MN where everything is dated!)

Victoria Beckham was wearing a version of these the other day. I zoomed in because I thought I was seeing things!

Please tell me they aren’t going to make a reappearance!!!!
She’s so thin isn’t she. How does she do it!

I hope not! no idea!

I think low rise might be trying to come back, please God no!

As far as I am concerned, it never went away.

I’m wearing River Island low rise bootcut jeans now. Two whole inches of fly zip!