What jeans are we meant to wear now?

[Turtle Bean]

Is it still skinny ones? I never seem to see anything else but have heard The Youth disparaging them.

[smalex]

We discussed this somewhere else recently, but I've bought two pairs of Mom jeans in an attempt to embrace modernity. I had lots of compliments about them. I'm not sure they really do me any favours, but neither do skinnies.

[wendy james]

I can’t imagine I should be wearing what the Youths wear.

[bramblerose]

I wore what the Youth are wearing about 40 years ago!

I'll keep on wearing my skinnies, thank you very much

[Luce]

I saw a very clever thing today telling us to calm down, that Gen Z are just obsessed with trends. Basically, the skinny Jean has transcended fashion trends and has become a ‘staple’. So skinny jeans can never be over, just like a classic white T-shirt can never be over.

You’ll have to prize my skinny jeans from my cold, dead hands. This always seems to be controversial here but I think absolutely everyone looks better in skinny jeans and those who think they don’t are simply wrong

[baargain]

I like a mom jean , and a girlfriend jean. Or a straight leg jean. Anything with some shape but a bit of bagginess. I find skinny jeans too restrictive now, and can make people look a bit parsnippy.

[Ella77]

I am 100% parsnip/golf club in them, but nothing else looks any better .

[smalex]

I've enjoyed the additional comfort of mom jeans, that's true baa. Although that might be because I've larded out of my existing skinnies

[baargain]

I sat in a camping chair for a long stretch of lockdown, and the skinnies didn't mix well with the sharper angle of midriff folding posture. Then I got more into the gardening and need stuff I can lunge and squat in

And I do like the way they look, it's not all about folding and lungeing

[Dáire]

Skinnies for boots, but I'm liking a straight-leg and cropped for wearing with trainers.

[Cosmopolitan]

I'm a big fan of a full 70s style wide leg, and a straight cut Jean. Not enjoying mom jeans because they dig in the waist but a girlfriend Jean is good. I'm going to John Lewis soon and I'm going to try on allllllll the jeans. Might book into their Style Advisor service.

[Duophonic]

I've recently purchased a pair of slim jeans but they hover slightly above my trainers so I feel a bit of a dick in them.

I prefer skinny jeans, bootcut make me look and feel matronly

[Estrella]

It was me who was pondering mom jeans on the other thread. I tried them and it felt like there was just too much fabric around my middle/bum. So I left the shop with two new pairs of skinny jeans instead.

I’ve also recently been wearing a pair of low rise bootcut jeans which I bought in NY in 2001. I’m a bit self conscious wearing them to be honest, but they’re very comfortable.

I do struggle with the jeans/shoes combo unless the jeans are skinny.

[smalex]

Skinnies are perfect with ankle boots, which I live in in winter.

Remember when we all wore long boot cuts/baggy jeans which dragged along the pavement soaking up the rain and pavement scuzz.

[Lola]

I don’t even know what girlfriend jeans are

[Pippedydeadeye]

I have some girlfriend jeans, and boyfriend jeans (can’t really tell the difference), and also relaxed skinnies, which are skinnier than a straight leg, but quite loose.

But I will not be wearing wide leg, bootleg or mom jeans.

[baargain]

I don’t even know what girlfriend jeans are

Not high rise like a mom jean, more relaxed leg than a skinny but potentially not as baggy as a boyfriend jean. Bit tapered in at the bottom, so slimmer at the ankle than a straight leg jean.

Jean jean Jean.

[Lola]

Thank you. I can be down with the kids now

[H1ppychick]

I fucking detest skinny jeans. They are an abomination. I like straight or slightly bootcut. Normal rise (not low or high).

[Dáire]

I find Mom jeans tend to come outwards from the waist and then back in again to a taper, giving you bagginess on the thighs and tapered calves. Straight and straight/slim at least follows the line of the leg. No ballooning.

I'd go full wide-leg like the jeans of my teens but then I'm probably getting a bit old to dress like my 15 year old self (even though I actually still do).