Guardian article on age and jeans!

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https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/mar/12/they-add-10-years-to-my-age-what-happened-when-a-millennial-and-a-gen-zer-swapped-jeans

I can’t say for me one is related to another.

If you do go new, however, jeans are worth forking out for – not just because cheaper denim is one of the most resource-intensive (water, chemicals and energy) items of clothing but also in terms of cost per wear. What price something you can wear for ever?

What a load of nonsense. Nothing said environmentally conscious less than buying a new pair of jeans because the ones you like are classed as “dated”. And how can they say wear them forever while also proclaiming Jean style from a handful of years ago are never to be worn again?!

Bizarre comment in that article about how longer wider jeans are for the child-free. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

It is weird, jeans are so hard wearing and styles are so limited I just pack away ones that aren't in style right now because I know they will be again at some point.

Skinnies forever! I wouldn't dream of wearing any other type of jean!

I must be beyond help because my first Gen X reaction was, JEANS ARE NOW £325?!?!?!? I remember when forking out £120 for a pair of Paiges was considered lavish. Maybe it's not the style of jeans that dates you, but the maximum price you're willing to pay for a pair...

And in any case, as every fool and Mae West knows, the whole point of flares is to conceal a giant pair of platforms underneath in order to make your legs look longer. Wearing flares with flat trainers (as I think you're meant to do?) now makes everyone look like a Shetland pony. Vive le 1970s, I say.

These are the perfect fit, either style -

Straight

www.hollandcooper.com/products/classic-straight-jean-deep-indigo

Flared

www.hollandcooper.com/products/high-rise-flared-jean-deep-indigo

I'm old, long legs, flat stomach and a small waist and I can't stand the feel of low rise, the higher the better!

Agree with @Lentilweaver .High waist, wide leg jeans with a tucked in silk top or short jumper and platforms garnered compliments from a couple of fashionable looking women in my London and East Coast American hotels last summer. First time in ages anything like that has happened.

I hope this look is still stylish. I can’t wait to get back to it. (I find it very comfortable also)

I'm tempted to go back to Levi's 501. You know where you are with those.

Not point of article I know, but as per usual Gen X are forgotten about. As a Gen Xer I feel like a middle child, stuck between the Boomers and the Millennials screaming at each other.

58, no idea what Gen I am and I don't care. Mortgage paid off (after 34 years of hard graft) and I still wouldn't consider spending £320 on a pair of jeans. High waisters to match my knickers and slightly wide leg to hide my ample thighs.

I remember sitting in a bath of water in my Levis and Wranglers to shrink fit them. I can still hear my mother's eyes rolling!

Surely you just wear what suits you?
I think the only difference is that the younger you are the more likely you are to wear what doesnt suit you due to peer pressure.

I dont mind an ankle grazer or a floor skimmer, it all depends on the weather and the shoes.
However I have very chunky calves so you wont find me in anything skinny or tapered....I need plenty of lower leg room!
Last pair I bought were midrise barrel legged (Im late to this party but I really like them now).

I think the reason GenX are never, ever mentioned in any bloody thing, is just that we're far too cool to get involved with intergenerational bickering.

I have been getting confused with these articles as the assumption is that millennials are old. Being Gen X they are youngsters to me. So I have no idea what I’m supposed to wear.

I thought barrel jeans and high waisted were cool? If they’re not I’m gonna stop forcing myself in to styles that don’t suit me.

I like a flare and a mid rise straight jean. Wide legged just about ok.

I did see this article. I hate those flared jeans they remind me of being a teenager and not in a good way. I’ll stick to my skinny and mom jeans thanks. I don’t care what “generation z” are wearing

I thought barrel jeans and high waisted were cool? If they’re not I’m gonna stop forcing myself in to styles that don’t suit me.

Me too. Joys of being old and living in the unfashionable north. But the article is a not very good bit of fluff. It would have been more interesting to get a wider range of ages and sizes and get them all to wear all shapes of jeans.

I considered myself too old to wear low rise jeans the first time around let alone now!
Have stuck to straight leg for decades now but got some wide-ish leg jeans and then had to buy some knee length socks because of the terrible draught coming up my legs 🌬😬

Actually, this article has cheered me up.

I dislike all the jeans except the pair the younger woman is wearing in their 'back to their own styles' photo at the bottom. That has always been my ideal jean shape and it's rather pleased me to hear they are back in again.

Those flares are way too big for her that's why they look stupid

The ones shown in the article look big enough to wear gaiters underneath. Suspect that idea won’t catch on.

Still remember the damp flares and the subsequent whiplash of my jeans in the 70s

Too lazy to read the article but looking at the photos isn't it the accompanying tops that make the jean swap look rubbish? Fitted tops go with flared/baggy jeans and loose tops go with straight/skinny etc jeans?

I think Gen X is much closer to Millenial than Millenial are to Gen Z. Both Gen X and older Millenials were/are much more into finding things that flatter, whereas a lot of Gen Z seem to care a lot less.

What does she wear? My 18 yr old dd and her friends wear almost nothing but jeans. Trackies at home often but other than that baggy jeans

Young GenX and old millennials for sure are similar. But young millennials are more like Gen z and old GenX are more like boomers.

This is kind of obvious because people are similar to those of a similar age. People don’t suddenly change because the year has clicked over into a new generation category

I saw a woman who I would say was mid 60s in a pair of wide leg jeans, a fitted jumper and sambas in the supermarket the other day and she looked so good. I noticed her because of how youthful her wide legged jeans made her look and it isn't something I have really noticed on people her age around here. I was actually inspired by her and went on vinted that evening and ordered myself pair.