How long do jeans trends usually last?

[Venismer]

Bought a pair of wide leg jeans, love them and woukd like at least one more pair. However I know I won't wear them very often in the warmer months.

I know nothing about fashion and trends, so thought I'd ask the wise ones here! How long are wide leg jeans likely to remain current? I can't justify buying another pair if they will be horribly out of fashion by October, but it seems to me that e.g skinnies were the thing for years.

I’ve been wearing wide leg jeans for the last three years so I would say they are still in. I have just hopped on the palazzo jeans train from M&S and they are much lighter than normal denim and so I am planning on wearing them loads in the spring and summer and popping them away for the colder months when I will get my Boden wide leg ones out which are thicker denim.

Wear what you want

I love the barrel, wide, flair trend, so much more comfortable and balances out my body shape. I don't care about trends other than when they enable clothing o become available I want to wear.

Op, I can't ever remember a jeans style going out of fashion as suddenly as that - they're normally one element of a bigger and longer lasting trend that can take several years to take hold and sometimes even longer to die down. So the current loose, relaxed silhouette, of which wide legs are a part, probably started coming in around 9 or 10 years ago but it's really only over the last five years or so that people have been joining in in large numbers. (That's a bit rough and ready as I don't recall exactly.)

I've heard / read that the silhouette is about to start narrowing again and it may already be happening in some parts (although not where I live). But even if that's correct, it's likely to be another slow burning change around. Basically, I'm pretty sure wide legs will still be around this autumn - I certainly plan to still wear them and I only stop when weather gets too wet and cold for them to be practical.

(That said, fashion can be very unpredictable, e.g. the choice of jeans styles in the shops at the moment is bigger and more varied than anything I can remember, so who knows what's around the corner!)

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I love the lighter weight wide leg jeans for summer. Fairly cool in many ways!

I’ve got two pairs of wide legged jeans and love them, they’re so comfortable and airy.

I think they’ll stay in style for a couple more years as they suit pretty much everyone. Keeping my fingers crossed. 🤞

Pretty much what I was going to say. If you're a full grown adult then do trends matter? Wear what suits you and what you like.

Yes yes we know that we can wear what we want but some people like to look current. To be truly stylish you need to understand both what suits you and what is current. No one wearing outdated clothes ever looks stylish even if they really love them.
understanding trends means you can rest some of your out dated styles for a few seasons and wear the pieces you love that give a nod to what’s current. That’s why truly stylish people look good.

@springbringshope - rubbish. Plenty of very stylish women never change their style. Plenty of women who strive to look on trend constantly look shallow. And it's very bad for the environment.

I’d say approximately a decade. Obviously there are not strict dividing lines - it takes a while for a new shape to be broadly adopted.

The 90s were about straight leg jeans. The 00s boot cuts. The 10s skinnies. The early years of the 20s have been a mish mash as no trend has come through particularly strongly.

@springbringshope nonsense!! The most stylish people wear clothes that suit them, not what’s in fashion.

What @IsItAllRubbish and @luckylavender say.

This is true. I won't be parted from my skinnies because I am tiny and this is what suits me, wide leg look ridiculous. Bootcut is also better for me. Wide leg may be 'what's in fashion' but they will never make me look 'stylish'.

There's a real variety in shops, basically anything goes - my own DD is wearing huge flared jeans or bootcut.

"There's a real variety in shops, basically anything goes - my own DD is wearing huge flared jeans or bootcut."

Yes! I love that all shapes are out there. Makes it easier for us all to wear what suits us.

I don't believe being stylish is either simply about following fashion or just about wearing what suits you (especially when the latter invariably turns out to be code for 'makes you look thinner' when you drill down). If it was that straightforward, we could all look stylish.

Where I do agree is that the range of styles for jeans at the moment - both in the shops and on the streets - is fantastic. I didn't see it coming so treat my attempted prediction upthread with caution. I do wonder how long it's going to last and whether we'll end up looking back wistfully, and wondering why we spent so much time moaning because some random women dared to wear jeans we didn't like.

Please can you link to the actual pair? What shoes do you wear with them?

Not as bad for the environment if you keep your skinny jeans or whatever until they come back into fashion again which I shall be doing

Although there’s a wide variety of jeans in the shops the overall trend is that jeans are fairly wide legged at the moment.

I agree with a pp that jeans trends last about a decade or so. I’d say the wide leg jeans are probably in for another 5 years or so before there’s going to be any significant change. But that doesn’t mean other jeans shapes are completely out of fashion - just that the predominant shape of trousers in general is wider at the moment. And as a few people said above, wearing what suits you is always stylish regardless of fashion trends.

I think the wide legged trend will be in for some time.

Who? Who has worn the exact same silhouette and style for decades that looks stylish.
People end up looking like a caricature if they do that.

The most stylish people know how to tweak what suits them to fit with current trends. They give a nod to what’s current whilst knowing how to keep to what looks good on them.

People who found.their look in their 20s/30s and never deviated end up looking like the bonkers lady who resembles Lola at the Copa cabana or Penelope Keith in the Good Life

@springbringshope - off the top of my head - Vera Wang, Hilary Clinton, Steve Jobs, Angela Merkel, Carolina Herrera, Kors, Lagerfeld, Armani

Hmm, I do think it's possible to wear pretty much the same outfit all the time and look stylish but I have to disagree about some of those names, especially Hilary Clinton, Angela Merkel and Steve Jobs. In my view, Clinton and Merkel, dressed appropriately for their roles but not sylishly, and as for Jobs - a very clever man but how he's ended up a style icon is a mystery to me.

But my nomination, so you can protest back if you want, would be Fran Lebowitz.

Generally though, I don't think this is any more the key to looking stylish than following every fashion. Stylish people, in my opinion, don't stick to rules; they're creative and they take risks. Maybe that's why I'm struggling to think of anyone currently in the public eye who I think fits the bill. There are lots who are well dressed but I'd say most of them are too afraid of getting it wrong to be really stylish.

Anyway this is digressing from the op so I'll stop now.

I'd agree with 10 years as well. Wide legs definitely won't be out of fashion by autumn, they've really only just become fully mainstream in the last couple of years.

But like everyone else has said, basically all jeans shapes are acceptable at the moment.

Do you mean how Giorgio Armani, Vera Wang, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Karl Kagerfeld dressed personally ,or their designs?
Because their designs have absolutely changed over the years. The essence of the style has remained consistent but the designs have evolved with changes in fashion

im a bit confused about Merkel and Clinton. They dress appropriately. I wouldn’t hold them up as bastions of style though. And they also haven’t worn the same shape and design for the past 40 years either