Do ANY boots go with wide legs?

[Feckinlego]

Been wearing these a lot with trainers but would like to dress them up slightly, and wear warm socks! Everything I've tried looks frumpy and dated. Any ideas?

Wide leg jeans/cords/velvet trousers/other?
Cropped or full length?
What boots have you tried?
What are you wearing on top?
(Warm socks can be worn with trainers!)

What about chunky Chelsea boots? I wear wide leg trousers for work and they look good together.

What boots have you tried?

I have knee high Duo boots in the 46cm calf, and a pair from Evans from when they still did proper leather boots. I've also got Army surplus lace up high leg boots, pull on low ankle boots from Wrangler and probably half a dozen more I've forgotten about 😂

Vinted is amazing for second hand Duo boots.

Chunky Chelsea boots seem to make me feel chunky! I'm only 5 foot. Then boots with a heel seem a bit dated, same for wedge boots. Liking the idea of lace up boots.

Heeled boot with an almond or pointed toe. Nothing flat.

Cowboy boots can work if the trousers are long enough

I feel I have made a huge mistake for buying FOUR pairs of wide leg jeans. I wore a pair I've had for awhile out today with flat chelsea boots and I don't think its possible to have felt and looked frumpier.

I felt hideous wearing them with boots.

Yesterday I wore a different pair with converse. To be honest I don't think they were much better.I feel like chucking all the jeans into a black bag and bringing to the charity shop. The jeans make me look fat(ter) and overweight and I cannot find shoes that look well with them or coats either to be honest. Long coats and there is just too much material, short coats and its all just one big rectangle showing my huge arse. My stomach is too big for bomber style jackets which would actually look ok with them.

I am ready for the wide leg trousers trend to die tbh. I can't get them to look right with anything really and then they just drag in puddles anyway 😒. I do like the way they look on other people though, but maybe need to accept they aren't for me!

Agree with a pp that I think they look best with heels.

Honestly I thought I was the only one who felt like this. No bloody boots work with them if you're a midget like me. Look great on a night out with heels but nothing looks right in the day

I wear my wide leg trousers with loafers, brogues and brogue lace up boots as well as Dune black suede trainer style shoes. All my shoes are flat. Ive not got wide leg jeans only corduroy, wool tweed, velvet or suit type fabric. Some are long and drag on the floor - once they look tatty I’ll shorten them to sit just on my ankle as I’ve done with others.

Pretty much the same as Lilsoph. I don't wear heels and I like wide legs with chunky looking flats.

Admittedly I don't normally wear them in really bad weather and tend to keep them for spring-autumn but that's true for quite a lot of my clothes. I think skinny jeans that clung to your legs when wet and took ages to dry were far worse in the rain.

@HarryOHayandBettyOBarley Have you tried the boot version of Converse? You can pick up the same style of shoe at Primark really cheaply. I am loving my wide leg jeans that I bought at Boden last year. In terms of coats for me the type of coat that works is knee length and that ‘nips you in’ at the waist allowing the bottom to flow and balancing out the proportion. I wear them with my Clarks ankle boots and funky socks. Trinny has a good video or videos on styling jeans ( they are on her You Tube channel) and are worth a look.

My friend came round the other day and she looked great - wide leg velvet trousers and a cashmere sweater. She was wearing plain black chelsea boots which were fine and probably what I'd have put with the trousers myself, but I did think that chelsea boots are a bit of a workaround and our generation has not yet arrived at the perfect footwear solution for wide leg trousers! In 2002 we'd have worn the trousers really long with a pointy ballet flat poking out, you know? I'm not saying we go back there but at least it was intentional.

Exactly the same and I get them just to sit on the top of the shoe, which is difficult because apparently the shops make trousers these days for everyone who is 7 foot tall

I have patent brogues, brogue boots, chelsea boots, suede trainer style shoes, DMs, they look really god

I'm loving wide leg trousers and jeans at the moment, but only two pairs of my boots look good with them.

Both pairs have slim/pointed toes and a small heel.

Flat, round-toed boots just look a bit clunky. Loafers and trainers both fine, though.

Maybethe type of material is key too. One pair of jeans has softer material and hangs better. Another two pairs have heavier material and although I’ve had them both taken up to barely off the ground, they don’t hang well. The material is too stiff. I think there must be movemevt/fluidity for wide leg trousers to look well.

Like a pp said i think what you're wearing on top makes a lot of difference to the frump level of what's going on at the bottom with wide leg trousers/jeans.

When kick flare jeans were in in the naughties i was skinny enough to wear them with tops tucked in (or 'bodys'. god love us) or crop tops and little short jackets. Flat shoes didn't look so frumpy if the top half was a bit more exciting.

These days i can't do crop tops or tops tucked in. The wide leg PLUS boring top look is pretty hard to pull off.

These days i can't do crop tops or tops tucked in. The wide leg PLUS boring top look is pretty hard to pull off.

Yes this also is another problem.
I wear short jumpers, that end at the waistband of the jeans and they are tight enough I think.

I daren’t try shirts etc as it’s too much material.

I lived in Miss Sixty kick flares in the 1990s. Tried a pair on and they were hideous. I’m heavier but also my shape has changed with age anyway. They need a younger woman’s natural body shape.

Someone above mentioned Trinny but I definitely can’t pull off the cropped kick out jeans she wears. I’m not six foot tall or size 8-10 which I think you need to be for this look. At five foot three, cropped trousers make me look as if they are just too short for me. To be fair I’m not sure Trinny can quite pull them off either other than she highly styles the rest of her outfit and attention is drawn to her sparkly silver tops and numerous gillets. She very rarely wears just a top and jeans.

I wear mine with DMs, I have the chunky heel ones too, I don't feel "frumpy" at all

@HarryOHayandBettyOBarley I'm with you on this, at 5ft3 just, cropped jeans/ trouser just make me look shorter, the only way I can get them to work is if i wear a longer boot under with a heel, but I'm mostly in flats, so have give up on the wide leg.

I have some Celtic &Co Wildernesses boots. They are lace up all the way, so can be loosened to fit a more generous calf. As I have, because my calves are much more generous now than when I bought them! They don't come all the way up to my knee, so would be fine for your height. They are now considerably more expensive than when I got mine, so if you like them, you might want to consider cheaper alternatives.

Of course we can wear them cropped! I'm 5'3 and I find the trick is to make sure they finish at the thinnest point of my ankle, not mid calf.

As for shoes and tops, maybe it helps that I wore wide legs in the 70s with cheesecloth smocks and desert boots. If your main memories of them are is from the early noughties, teamed with crop tops, heels or wedges, then I can understand how that look can become fixed as the only way to wear them. But it honestly isn't.

Of course we can wear them cropped! I'm 5'3 and I find the trick is to make sure they finish at the thinnest point of my ankle, not mid calf.

Smock tops look great when you’re a size 10. Not as good on a size 12 unfortunately and definitely not with a big chest sadly

They really don’t look well on me. I’m glad you feel comfortable wearing them and wish I did but I honestly I don’t. I look like a schoolboy who has grown out of his uniform trousers at the end of the year! It’s the same reason I never wear black shoes with blue jeans - reminds me of teenage boys 🤣

I wear them with Converse, low heeled boots, and chunky shoes. They also look good with heels, but I rarely wear those.

I think you need to wear boots with a slim ankle with wide leg trousers. Google 'sock boots'. I don't think Chelsea boots work as they have a wide ankle so the proportions are all wrong.