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.

@Coogee doesn't your back get cold though? I'm 5ft 10, low rise never worked for me.

How do you wear loose jeans if you have mum tum? I love skinnies because I wear them with a long shirt or similar. The baggier jeans surely need to be worn with a top tucked in and that is going to show my worst bit

doesn't your back get cold though? I'm 5ft 10, low rise never worked for me.

I’m only 5’6” so that could be the difference. When it’s cooler, I wear them with longer tops, tucked in. When it’s warmer, I wear them with shorter tops, not tucked in. I can get a bit of a gap at the front, but my back stays covered.

Most low rise trousers/jeans are cut so that they a lower at the front than the back. Well, mine are.

All my skinnies now are dark block colour (black / navy /maroon) so not that different to wearing leggings.
I wouldn’t wear skinny jeans in light or mid demon though.

In the climate I live in ie dark early, rain daily and blustery wind - skinnies and boots will be the winter go to for many people tbh. I’m mid 40s, 5ft 2, and need to lose a stone and they don’t suit my thick legs but they are that awful word practical. I’m officially old :-(

@Coogee where do you get your low rise jeans from ?

@LadyCatStark

Maybe they were wearing skinnies because it was raining? Mind you if they are, they need to toughen up, I had wet legs up to my knees from 1999-2006!

I've been desperate for a pair of wide leg, flared, baggy jeans but this reminder has brought me up short.

It instantly took me back the sensation of cold, wet, frayed, stepped on hems swishing round my ankles.

Maybe Geordie Jeans will make a comeback

Most low rise trousers/jeans are cut so that they a lower at the front than the back. Well, mine are.

I've not worn low rise since the early 00s when whale tails were a common sight, shudder 😁

@AuntMasha

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!).

Why? Why does it matter what anyone else is wearing? I honestly can’t imagine being so judgey and deciding people shouldn’t wear things. 😂

@RaspberryThief

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 don't think they are "dated". Just not the latest thing.

When something "works" for so many people they never really go all the way "out". They just drop down the table a bit.

I think of skinny jeans as having classic status. They're always kind of around aren't they?

I think of skinny jeans as having classic status. They're always kind of around aren't they?

I’d never think they were classics. Never!

I’m in a playground right now. An older mum is wearing dark skinny jeans. Her friend has white cropped chinos. They both look dated tbh.
I think skinny jeans suit ppl who have no extra weight. But it’s a fine line because if too slim, they look like ski pants.

We all notice other people and make a quick judgement. I even do it when looking at kid’s clothes. It’s normal if you have any interest in clothes.

@Boogiewoody

One or two are from when they were in the first time round. The rest are second hand from Ebay. My most recent purchase was a pair of RI ultra low rise skinnies. Worn once.

Somebody on a similar thread told me that charity shops are full of them.

I saw a pic of myself in mum jeans chunky trainers and baggy batwing sweater…. I looked very large but happy . DH says I dress like the year 10 girls at his school

I have just really really really gone off my pre-pandemic smart clothes (shirt dresses with belt, boots, dark denim skinny jeans) and have gone too far the other way . Can’t stand any of them now.

Someone stop me. I am 50, not 15

@Dancingonmoonlight

I think of skinny jeans as having classic status. They're always kind of around aren't they?

I’d never think they were classics. Never!

I’m in a playground right now. An older mum is wearing dark skinny jeans. Her friend has white cropped chinos. They both look dated tbh.
I think skinny jeans suit ppl who have no extra weight. But it’s a fine line because if too slim, they look like ski pants.

We all notice other people and make a quick judgement. I even do it when looking at kid’s clothes. It’s normal if you have any interest in clothes.

Is "classic" not a good thing?

They've been around my whole adult life. I can't really imagine the landscape without them.

Skinny jeans will never be classic. The styling is too extreme. A classic would be straight leg jeans, anyone can wear them.

'Classic' to me means something comes around fairly regularly, e.g. every 15-20 years, not that it never goes out of fashion.

Round here skinnies pretty much disappeared from the high street for quite a few years. I remember seeing them again for the first time in French Connection in the early noughties, and thinking it had been a while.

A poster (can't remember if it was this thread or another one) reckoned that online shopping would mean some places will still stock them, which I thought was a good point but I still don't think that on its own will keep them in fashion. It's not a value judgement, it's just what happens - you think 'no never!' but then you spot someone else wearing it in a way you hadn't thought of, you give it a go and that's it. That's how it works for me anyway.

But the fashion meaning of classic is a basic item.

A blazer
A white shirt
A pencil skirt.

No extremes.

@cogee thanks. I have one pair I got from Ebay and actually today I bought some low rise linen trousers from a charity shop. I suppose its just a matter of keeping my eye out. I can't abide high waist

I would put money on there being a daily thread on here from October 1st bemoaning non-skinny jeans because it's too cold/wet for trainers and nobody wants to roll

‘Why? Why does it matter what anyone else is wearing? I honestly can’t imagine being so judgey and deciding people shouldn’t wear things. 😂’

I don’t really know why you’re picking on my post. I’m not judging anyone, just expressing my preferences. This is a lighthearted thread and that’s just my pennies worth.

And that's something else I don't get - this idea that skinny jeans are the only ones that work in bad weather. I find pretty much any kind of narrow or tapered leg works fine. Admittedly I don't tuck into boots as I don't particularly like the look.

Floismeyou're right.

I'm after buying 'cigarette' jeans tried them on today. They are tight on my thighs but I'm trying to lose a stone so they will loosen (hopefully). The ends are not tight. I rolled them up and tried with chelsea boots and I'm really pleased with them.

I think barrel & mom etc look better when cropped or rolled up so I guess it you want your ankles covered but don't want to wear heeled boots with the crops it's more tricky.

@countrytown Thanks, I just looked up Topshop Editors. Unfortunately my woes with jeans shopping are made worse by the fact that I really don't suit high rise, and the Editor jeans do have that so I suspect they won't work for me. I'm also petite, as if life wasn't difficult enough already (one of the reasons I used to love Topshop for jeans: it was one of the only "more stylish" shops that actually acknowledged the existence of us short folk - otherwise you were relegated to the nastier end of M&S or Next's offerings...). Thank you for the suggestion, though! I may order them to try, just in case.