If skinny jeans and ankle boots are frumpy?

[BarrelOfOtters]

Wtf are you supposed to wear.?

Up to you but I don't really understand sticking to one style of jeans when there's so much variety to choose from right now. I don't remember it ever happening before and I'm making the most of it.

I also think all the professional goadsters must be absolutely loving the attention they're getting on S&B at the moment.

I suit skinny jeans as I have long toned legs (the rest of me is not so good ). I do have some straight ones, but I prefer the skinnies, why would I wear other types if I don’t like them and simply as they are available?

people should wear what they like and suits them. Not follow fashion like a teenager or dress in stuff they dislike just because.

Frankly I think jeans (pretty much any style) are just a wardrobe staple and a classic at this point like a good blazer or a nice white shirt.

If you know what suits you and wear it then I think you will always look put together and stylish.....
and Id rather look stylish then fashionable (who wants to be fashionable if you know the current fashion makes you look like a prat!?).

I have short legs and finding jeans is difficult enough. Most jeans make me look like a short arse Oompa Loompa. They look fugly.
I look good in skinnies. So I wear them.
Having strangers condescendingly announce that they are universally frumpy does not make me feel great.

Don't be silly.

I have absolutely no interest in the Royal family as individuals. I am interested in fashion and clothing though.

In no way is Kate Middleton considered to be one of the best dressed women in the world.

She looks perfectly fine for the job she does. A little bit staid, conservative, doesn't take any risks.

Her best looks were the gold dress and Prince Philip's funeral, the black mask edged it up.

Other than that, completely boring.

Like I've said, up to you. Me, I used to be a slave to all the style and body shape rules but I no longer care. But I do enjoy fashion still - it's silly yes but it can be good fun if you don't take it too seriously. And fashion history is fascinating.

As for condescending strangers, yeah I get them too, except in my case they're the ones telling me I shouldn't be interested in fashion at my age. I occasionally bite back but mostly these days I just roll my eyes and leave them to it.

I really don't understand your question though.

There are so many clothes that aren't skinny jeans and ankle boots.

Absolutely wear them if it makes you happy, but other options are available.

I am enjoying the term 'professional goadsters' @Floisme.

Noted for future usage.

They're only frumpy for the sheeple that populate Mumsnet who would have declared 5 years ago that the only acceptable jeans fit was skinny and have done a sudden about-turn because magazines and influencers (pah!) have declared something else is now the trend. The only thing to go by is - does the reflection in the mirror please you? ...

You should wear what suits you.

Following fashion blindly makes people look older and frumpier than picking what you like or looks best on you.

Wear whatever you want, but if don't want to look dated, don't wear skinny jeans and ankle boots.

I remember years ago when the Kate Moss skinny jeans period happened, and everyone was on here saying" No, I'll never wear those, they make me look like a carrot and I'll stick to my bootlegs until you rip them off my dying body" or something.

There are lots of shapes of jeans or trousers that are not out dated that will suit a person who suits skinny jeans.

Skinnies are awkward for me (I am parsnip shaped) and only work if I can turn them up a few times, which seems to balance me out a bit, so I’ve been in slim leg jeans for literally years. I would rather be slightly out of fashion than wear something that looks ridiculous on me, like most of the current trends

I agree with this, I’m wearing wide leg jeans and Gazelles at the moment and loving the change, but I’ll be alternating them with the turned up straight legs I’ve been wearing for the past couple of years. Especially when it’s raining. And I still have a couple of pairs of skinnies as well, because there are some tops that they work better with. The variety is great. And I don’t really understand any grown woman giving a shit what a teenager thinks of her style, tbh, that would just be bizarre.

As others have said, most clothes aren't skinny jeans and ankle boots so there's plenty of other options.

But if it's that thread that's put you off I wouldn't pay much attention to it.

Regarding the Princess of Wales, she has never struck me as being that interested in clothes, more someone who, because of her public role, and because of the level of attention she gets, sticks to a formula. I totally get why she does that but I'd never look to her as a style role model.

Diana on the other hand, took far more risks (admittedly a lot of them after her divorce) some of which I thought made her look an absolute bugger but, when they paid off, she looked amazing.

I'm still wearing skinny jeans and ankle boots. They look good. I don't care if they're dated.

I've always said mine would have to be prised off my cold dead body, but I've changed my mind and decided to be buried in them.

Also Kate clearly isn't frumpy. That's ludicrous. She's got a very conservative, classic style (as do all royals) but she wears it well and always looks beautiful IMO.
Not a royalist. Just stating the bleeding obvious!

I personally just wear boot cut jeans and boots/trainers because that suits me and I'm 46, so fuck it. If I liked skinnies and boots, I'd keep wearing that but I ultimately don't find skinnies very comfortable so I've been happy to move away from them.

You can wear what ever you like, nobody is disputing that. Some people follow fashion and want to keep up to date (no matter what their age despite a rude post earlier).

I don’t know why people get so defensive over skinny jeans! If you like them, wear them. They’re not the current trend though, so don’t berate people who do like to keep up with fashion. You can look good in the latest trends at any age.

Kate dresses very conservatively and always looks presentable, but she doesn’t wear the latest fashion, again no issue at all, but some people do want to look on trend!!

OP there's a difference between style and fashion. Fashion is following the current trends and what's 'in' even if it doesn't suit you. True style is wearing what suits your shape, that you look and feel good in. Even if some fashion followers would call it 'dated' or frumpy.

I love skinny jeans but I have started wearing mom jeans and flares too and I’m really enjoying them! I size down in mom jeans so they are still quite fitted, which I’ve found really works for me. Also, a slight flare can be really flattering as still fitted in the hips and thigh area

I don’t get people coming onto Style and Beauty to say ‘just wear what you want’. This is a board where people are interested in fashion, I think we’re all aware you don’t have to dress in what’s fashionable, but lots of us like to.

Some posters here seem to have real anxiety about what's 'in' and what isn't though. Particularly asking if a trend that was in for years and years is now suddenly 'frumpy'. Why wasn't it frumpy before, and why is it frumpy now?

Fashion should make you feel good. I get the feeling that some posters on S&B check the mirror 72 times before leaving the house, having changed their outfit 3 times already, worried that they'll walk down the street and everyone will be looking at them and judging them for being frumpy/dated/whatever.

So what people are saying (I think) is there's a balance. It's nice to feel on trend, but not if it comes with a tonne of angst.

Straight jeans are so flattering I find, and also so much more comfortable to wear than skinnies which I do think look v dated.

Add an up to date pair of trainers, a long sleeved tight fitting top and an oversized trench and that's my uniform for the spring - well not literally but you know what I mean.