Winter is here - waving my white flag at straight leg jeans/pants

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Anonymous wrote:I love straight-leg ankle length jeans/pants. For winter, I just get longer pairs, so they cover my ankles, or I wear booties that more or less cover the lower leg. I will never, ever go back to skinny jeans.

This. Get a pair of mid-height booties that are fitted and wear your straight-leg jeans over the top.

But these look weirdly short with half the boot shaft visible?

That's how they're supposed to look. You allow the thinnest part of your (booted) ankle show, which is more flattering. This look works best with sock boots that hug the leg. I don't care for it as much with the raw hem above because the white fringe visually interrupts the leg line but would be great with a finished hem.

And for the PP who was worried how it looks when seated, a mid-shaft height boot will still cover your leg. I even wear knee boots under my straight legs sometimes, which is great when it's really cold. Because they're sock boots, they don't look bulky under my jeans. These are the ones I have:

https://www.nordstrom.com/s/ella-stretch-knee-high-boot-women/7184152

I think this is a generational thing. I was born at the end of 1979 so sorta gen X, millennial, early 40s now. My DH would ask me where the flood is if I wore something like this. It just looks weird to me and makes people's legs look short.

I prefer the flare leg jean look that cover the top of the food, perferably with a heeled boot. That was what was trendy when I was in college and given flare jeans are making a come back, I'll stick to that.

I'm a full-on genX'er and think this looks great. If you have shorter legs, just avoid too much contrast between the boot and jean color.

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Anonymous wrote:I love straight-leg ankle length jeans/pants. For winter, I just get longer pairs, so they cover my ankles, or I wear booties that more or less cover the lower leg. I will never, ever go back to skinny jeans.

This. Get a pair of mid-height booties that are fitted and wear your straight-leg jeans over the top.

But these look weirdly short with half the boot shaft visible?

That's how they're supposed to look. You allow the thinnest part of your (booted) ankle show, which is more flattering. This look works best with sock boots that hug the leg. I don't care for it as much with the raw hem above because the white fringe visually interrupts the leg line but would be great with a finished hem.

And for the PP who was worried how it looks when seated, a mid-shaft height boot will still cover your leg. I even wear knee boots under my straight legs sometimes, which is great when it's really cold. Because they're sock boots, they don't look bulky under my jeans. These are the ones I have:

https://www.nordstrom.com/s/ella-stretch-knee-high-boot-women/7184152

I think this is a generational thing. I was born at the end of 1979 so sorta gen X, millennial, early 40s now. My DH would ask me where the flood is if I wore something like this. It just looks weird to me and makes people's legs look short.

I prefer the flare leg jean look that cover the top of the food, perferably with a heeled boot. That was what was trendy when I was in college and given flare jeans are making a come back, I'll stick to that.

I'm a full-on genX'er and think this looks great. If you have shorter legs, just avoid too much contrast between the boot and jean color.

I'm gen x too and I really like this look. If I weren't in a warm climate I'd be wearing the heck out of it. It feels very - I don't know the right word - but human scale. Like a lot of people can wear some version of this and have it be an attractive, practical choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I love straight-leg ankle length jeans/pants. For winter, I just get longer pairs, so they cover my ankles, or I wear booties that more or less cover the lower leg. I will never, ever go back to skinny jeans.

This. Get a pair of mid-height booties that are fitted and wear your straight-leg jeans over the top.

But these look weirdly short with half the boot shaft visible?

That's how they're supposed to look. You allow the thinnest part of your (booted) ankle show, which is more flattering. This look works best with sock boots that hug the leg. I don't care for it as much with the raw hem above because the white fringe visually interrupts the leg line but would be great with a finished hem.

And for the PP who was worried how it looks when seated, a mid-shaft height boot will still cover your leg. I even wear knee boots under my straight legs sometimes, which is great when it's really cold. Because they're sock boots, they don't look bulky under my jeans. These are the ones I have:

https://www.nordstrom.com/s/ella-stretch-knee-high-boot-women/7184152

I think this is a generational thing. I was born at the end of 1979 so sorta gen X, millennial, early 40s now. My DH would ask me where the flood is if I wore something like this. It just looks weird to me and makes people's legs look short.

I prefer the flare leg jean look that cover the top of the food, perferably with a heeled boot. That was what was trendy when I was in college and given flare jeans are making a come back, I'll stick to that.

I'm a full-on genX'er and think this looks great. If you have shorter legs, just avoid too much contrast between the boot and jean color.

I'm gen x too and I really like this look. If I weren't in a warm climate I'd be wearing the heck out of it. It feels very - I don't know the right word - but human scale. Like a lot of people can wear some version of this and have it be an attractive, practical choice.

NP. Yup, it's a great look. The jeans hit at the skinniest part of the leg -- it's flattering. Just buy boots with a thin shaft. The sole can be anything -- small heel, lug sole, etc.

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OP, having white ankles isn’t a crime!

I am a very pale ginger. On mild days, I wear my straight leg jeans which hit just below the ankle with no-shoe socks and loafers. Colder days, I break out the boots which corm up under the pants’ hem. I am white, however “pasty” i may be, it is my skin … A fake tan would sure look odd!

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Anonymous wrote:Get a pair of spat legs for the winter. Sounds like a fit that might work for you.

https://normakamali.com/products/spat-legging-jeans-black-acid-wash-st4227de541511

These always make me want to LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate sweaters and you can pry my skinny jeans from my cold, dead hands.

What shoes do you wear, with socks, and these jeans?

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Who keeps trying to make Norma Kamali happen? Never heard of this brand and now it’s on every thread!

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It's just the millenials that can't handle this.

When skinny jeans came in (they were not always "in"!) we Gen Xers had to sort out all new boots and shoes and tops to wear with skinny jeans. Now we've been around long enough that it's easy for us to slip back into straight leg, flare, boot, etc. and know what works for us.

I think you'll find that straight and flare jeans are way easier to find boots or other shoes to wear that look good. Plus you can wear socks without making them part of your outfit.

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Anonymous wrote:Who keeps trying to make Norma Kamali happen? Never heard of this brand and now it’s on every thread!

Um…Norma Kamali had happenedbeen happening for like for the last 40+ years… her stuff is expensive and you’re not gonna find it at the average department stores. Google her.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate sweaters and you can pry my skinny jeans from my cold, dead hands.

Amen. I try to buy them slightly looser, but every time I put on a straight pair all I can see if baggy jeans that look frumpy.

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Anonymous wrote:It's just the millenials that can't handle this.

When skinny jeans came in (they were not always "in"!) we Gen Xers had to sort out all new boots and shoes and tops to wear with skinny jeans. Now we've been around long enough that it's easy for us to slip back into straight leg, flare, boot, etc. and know what works for us.

I think you'll find that straight and flare jeans are way easier to find boots or other shoes to wear that look good. Plus you can wear socks without making them part of your outfit.

Most Generation, Xers wore tapered guess jeans (they were so tapered that they needed zippers at the ankles, said if it was similar to skinny jeans) in the 80s or something like it and then DKNY skinny jeans or something like it with a little stretch late 80s. Fashion was all over the place in the late 80s.. I feel like it’s a young boomers that were straight legs and other fits in the easy 70s.

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Anonymous wrote:It's just the millenials that can't handle this.

When skinny jeans came in (they were not always "in"!) we Gen Xers had to sort out all new boots and shoes and tops to wear with skinny jeans. Now we've been around long enough that it's easy for us to slip back into straight leg, flare, boot, etc. and know what works for us.

I think you'll find that straight and flare jeans are way easier to find boots or other shoes to wear that look good. Plus you can wear socks without making them part of your outfit.

It's not the same. It was bootcut and low rise in the 90s. Now it's high rise and straight cut, yet ankle length still. Completely different.

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socks?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's just the millenials that can't handle this.

When skinny jeans came in (they were not always "in"!) we Gen Xers had to sort out all new boots and shoes and tops to wear with skinny jeans. Now we've been around long enough that it's easy for us to slip back into straight leg, flare, boot, etc. and know what works for us.

I think you'll find that straight and flare jeans are way easier to find boots or other shoes to wear that look good. Plus you can wear socks without making them part of your outfit.

It's not the same. It was bootcut and low rise in the 90s. Now it's high rise and straight cut, yet ankle length still. Completely different.

Yeah the 90s bootcut was more like this, went all the way down to the toe, just lower rise. To look good, you wore this style jean with a heeled boot and your "going out top"

Back in the late 90s, early 00's, you were still afraid of looking like your jeans were too short, you wanted it the length that is shown in this photo. I remember getting my 7 brand jeans hemmed to be just right.



Now the bootcut appearance is more demi cut to show the boot above the ankle.

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This cropped at ankle style is really just payback for all the years I did not have to hem jeans… I am 5’8” but leggy and for the longest time pants just fit. Now all jeans look like capris on me and shoes look stupid with them all. I think to get it right I need to buy the tall version and then hem … feeling for all my 5’1” sisters who hemmed through the oughts and teens!