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.

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Love these.

I get wearing this in the name of fashion but we can all admit that this looks terrible, right?

I like both of these pics and think these women look cute. And I say that even though this is not how I interpret this trend! I don’t do the kick pleat jeans (straight or even slight taper looks better on me, with a high waist and a hem about 1.5 inches above my ankle). For boots I don’t do heels anymore — I do lug sole Chelsea’s or lace up boots (moto or hiking depending on setting). I wear with my pea coat or teddy coat. I love how I look, it’s comfortable and flattering to my body and feels like my style even though it’s also “on trend.”

I think if you look at these pictures and think these women look “terrible”, it’s probably you who is overly beholden to fashion. Because you’ve so bought into the prior trend that now a different trend looks ugly to you. But it’s not, it’s just different.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

DP. I completely disagree about the booties being "done". They look great with the straight leg, ankle-length jeans.

Whether you think ankle booties look great or not doesn’t have a thing to do with whether they’re in style. They aren’t. Calf height or shaft boots with structural heels or kitten heels or lug soles are what is in. Not the ankle booties with an almond toe and chunky heel from 2014. Wear what you like obviously, but that’s not the same thing as what is currently fashionable

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

DP, but I don’t have chicken legs, so those don’t work for me. Oh well. Those are the kinds of boots that look dreadful on anyone who is not super thin and leggy.

Any kind of stretch boot should work great for women with thicker legs. They’re much more forgiving than the more traditional leather variety. I say this as a pear-shaped woman who frequently has trouble with boots being too tight in the calf. I probably wouldn’t wear these mid-height ones with skirts because they make my short legs look even shorter but with jeans they’re great.

Thanks, PP. Do you have links to what you’re describing? I actually wore stretch knee-high boots yesterday with a dress, so I love that look, but not sure how it would be with shorter boots. If I’m wearing jeans over the boots, I don’t see how what the shaft looks like matters. I don’t like the high ankle pants with mid-calf boots look - mostly because heels are uncomfortable, and I don’t want flats.

I have these and they fit really well. Super-comfortable and I don't normally like wearing heels. They look great with shorter pants if you decide to give that a try.

https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Souls-Kenneth-Cole-Plumberry/dp/B093P6NYQW?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1

Thanks, PP. I’m not sure they’d be stretchy enough to fit my lower legs, but they’re cute.

I actually think the pictures of this style (shorter pants, closer fitting mid-calf boots) looks great. Part of my hesitation in trying it is around shopping for still more stuff, which I don’t love doing. I know I could find a cheap pair of pants, but I’m tired of buying cheap clothing, and then I’d also need updated tops to wear them with. As another PP said, I don’t want to drop $$$ every season to be always on trend.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

DP, but I don’t have chicken legs, so those don’t work for me. Oh well. Those are the kinds of boots that look dreadful on anyone who is not super thin and leggy.

Any kind of stretch boot should work great for women with thicker legs. They’re much more forgiving than the more traditional leather variety. I say this as a pear-shaped woman who frequently has trouble with boots being too tight in the calf. I probably wouldn’t wear these mid-height ones with skirts because they make my short legs look even shorter but with jeans they’re great.

Thanks, PP. Do you have links to what you’re describing? I actually wore stretch knee-high boots yesterday with a dress, so I love that look, but not sure how it would be with shorter boots. If I’m wearing jeans over the boots, I don’t see how what the shaft looks like matters. I don’t like the high ankle pants with mid-calf boots look - mostly because heels are uncomfortable, and I don’t want flats.

I have these and they fit really well. Super-comfortable and I don't normally like wearing heels. They look great with shorter pants if you decide to give that a try.

https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Souls-Kenneth-Cole-Plumberry/dp/B093P6NYQW?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1

Thanks, PP. I’m not sure they’d be stretchy enough to fit my lower legs, but they’re cute.

I actually think the pictures of this style (shorter pants, closer fitting mid-calf boots) looks great. Part of my hesitation in trying it is around shopping for still more stuff, which I don’t love doing. I know I could find a cheap pair of pants, but I’m tired of buying cheap clothing, and then I’d also need updated tops to wear them with. As another PP said, I don’t want to drop $$$ every season to be always on trend.

I have, and love, these:

https://shop.mango.com/us/women/shoes-boots-and-booties/track-sole-contrast-ankle-boots_37074391.html

DP. The shaft is skinny and stretchy, so they work perfectly with straight leg jeans -- I wear them with both ankle-length straight leg jeans and full length (but like how they look most with the ankle-length pair). They are lug soles -- a trend I personally like mostly because it's comfy! Price is great, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

DP. I completely disagree about the booties being "done". They look great with the straight leg, ankle-length jeans.

Whether you think ankle booties look great or not doesn’t have a thing to do with whether they’re in style. They aren’t. Calf height or shaft boots with structural heels or kitten heels or lug soles are what is in. Not the ankle booties with an almond toe and chunky heel from 2014. Wear what you like obviously, but that’s not the same thing as what is currently fashionable

Kitten heels are absolutely hideous.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

DP. I completely disagree about the booties being "done". They look great with the straight leg, ankle-length jeans.

Whether you think ankle booties look great or not doesn’t have a thing to do with whether they’re in style. They aren’t. Calf height or shaft boots with structural heels or kitten heels or lug soles are what is in. Not the ankle booties with an almond toe and chunky heel from 2014. Wear what you like obviously, but that’s not the same thing as what is currently fashionable

Kitten heels are absolutely hideous.

Then don’t wear them but don’t also argue that 2012 ankle booties are still in. They aren’t. We have this argument constantly on this board: you can like something even if it isn’t currently fashionable, but then don’t argue it is fashionable when it’s 10 years out of date.

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I’m staring to equate “fashionable” with “delicacy”. Usually when food is described as a delicacy I don’t want to eat it, ever. Fashionable seems to strike the same chord for me, people keep telling me how great it is but when it comes down to it, it’s just not for me. The high water wide leg jeans with calf high booties is just plain ugly, makes no sense and unless you are 6 feet tall, rail thin and live in a city where your walk to work is a king to a fashion runway it ultimately looks ridiculous, really it does, I promise. I admire the courage folks have to try it but for the majority of the population, it just doesn’t work. I’ll add it to an ever growing list of fashionable trends that we all knew were bad ideas at the start but many succumbed too in the name of being fashionable: cold shoulder split sleeve tops, hip hugger jeans, over the knee stiletto boots, crop tops…The list keeps going. Trust your guts people, no matter how many glossy pages and insta reels try to convince you otherwise no one really wants calf brain with a side of Rocky Mountain oysters for dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m staring to equate “fashionable” with “delicacy”. Usually when food is described as a delicacy I don’t want to eat it, ever. Fashionable seems to strike the same chord for me, people keep telling me how great it is but when it comes down to it, it’s just not for me. The high water wide leg jeans with calf high booties is just plain ugly, makes no sense and unless you are 6 feet tall, rail thin and live in a city where your walk to work is a king to a fashion runway it ultimately looks ridiculous, really it does, I promise. I admire the courage folks have to try it but for the majority of the population, it just doesn’t work. I’ll add it to an ever growing list of fashionable trends that we all knew were bad ideas at the start but many succumbed too in the name of being fashionable: cold shoulder split sleeve tops, hip hugger jeans, over the knee stiletto boots, crop tops…The list keeps going. Trust your guts people, no matter how many glossy pages and insta reels try to convince you otherwise no one really wants calf brain with a side of Rocky Mountain oysters for dinner.

I get this but I think most people who say it only think this when something is new and they aren’t seeing it everywhere. For example, high rise skinny jeans. People HATED these when they first came back. Only once the market was saturated and the trend was old and had trickled down so much it became ubiquitous did people adapt and now they won’t let go of the damn things! Hopping on a trend early though means you get more time to enjoy it - because if you wait until it’s “normalized” because you seen it even in target and Walmart and other stores like that, it’s dying and you’re left at the end clinging onto to a dated look the way people now are with skinny jeans and booties.

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But I do get it about kitten heels - I’m the one who said they’re on trend and they are but I can’t see myself entering them, they’re not for me. But oh man the wide leg pants and calf height boots- please just try it? I promise you it looks so good on you even if you don’t see it yet! It’s flattering!!

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Anonymous wrote:But I do get it about kitten heels - I’m the one who said they’re on trend and they are but I can’t see myself entering them, they’re not for me. But oh man the wide leg pants and calf height boots- please just try it? I promise you it looks so good on you even if you don’t see it yet! It’s flattering!!

I’m 5’4” low BMI, have big boobs for my frame and a thick torso (effectively no waist) trust me, this does not look good at all, at all. And I’m not just saying that, it truly does not look good.

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I bought the Sam Edelman Laguna boots (lug sole) and they looked RIDICULOUS on me. I am 5,8”, thin calves and leggy, pear shaped, and a 9.5 and they made me look like I was wearing my DH’s shoes. The clunky boot style really doesn’t work with my proportions.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

DP, but I don’t have chicken legs, so those don’t work for me. Oh well. Those are the kinds of boots that look dreadful on anyone who is not super thin and leggy.

Any kind of stretch boot should work great for women with thicker legs. They’re much more forgiving than the more traditional leather variety. I say this as a pear-shaped woman who frequently has trouble with boots being too tight in the calf. I probably wouldn’t wear these mid-height ones with skirts because they make my short legs look even shorter but with jeans they’re great.

Thanks, PP. Do you have links to what you’re describing? I actually wore stretch knee-high boots yesterday with a dress, so I love that look, but not sure how it would be with shorter boots. If I’m wearing jeans over the boots, I don’t see how what the shaft looks like matters. I don’t like the high ankle pants with mid-calf boots look - mostly because heels are uncomfortable, and I don’t want flats.

I have these and they fit really well. Super-comfortable and I don't normally like wearing heels. They look great with shorter pants if you decide to give that a try.

https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Souls-Kenneth-Cole-Plumberry/dp/B093P6NYQW?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1

Thanks, PP. I’m not sure they’d be stretchy enough to fit my lower legs, but they’re cute.

I actually think the pictures of this style (shorter pants, closer fitting mid-calf boots) looks great. Part of my hesitation in trying it is around shopping for still more stuff, which I don’t love doing. I know I could find a cheap pair of pants, but I’m tired of buying cheap clothing, and then I’d also need updated tops to wear them with. As another PP said, I don’t want to drop $$$ every season to be always on trend.

I have, and love, these:

https://shop.mango.com/us/women/shoes-boots-and-booties/track-sole-contrast-ankle-boots_37074391.html

DP. The shaft is skinny and stretchy, so they work perfectly with straight leg jeans -- I wear them with both ankle-length straight leg jeans and full length (but like how they look most with the ankle-length pair). They are lug soles -- a trend I personally like mostly because it's comfy! Price is great, too.

Thanks, PP! These aren’t my style (more because of the lug soles - I have Frye Harness 8Rs that I love, though) but I appreciate your providing other options.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone post an example of a bootie that will work with this style jeans, that does not have a lug sole. I am mid 50s and feel too old for those shoes - i want a “regular” sole/heel, but the shaft tall enough so that you don’t see my
ankles.

You’re not working with booties anymore. They’re done. Ankle boots with those fat little heels and almond toes are dated. Look for long slender mid shaft boots with structural heels and long toe boxes. The ankle is slender and comes up to your shin. Very simple to match with any pants; here’s an inexpensive example of what I’m talking about: https://www.asos.com/us/raid/raid-kennedi-mid-heel-chelsea-boots-in-black/prd/201329765?ctaref=we+recommend+grid_13&featureref1=we+recommend+pers

I have been waiting for this moment for a solid DECADE. I hated booties.

The bad news is, they’re being replaced with kitten heel shaft boots lmao

It looks so much better on me. As an apple, skinnies never looked good on me because my bottom half looked so tiny compared to my top half. The new straight leg pants add a little volume on bottom. P to the 5’4” PP with big bobs, if the cropped pants don’t work, Talbots has some full-length straight pants that you might find more flattering on your body. They also have a barely boot cut that hits the floor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought the Sam Edelman Laguna boots (lug sole) and they looked RIDICULOUS on me. I am 5,8”, thin calves and leggy, pear shaped, and a 9.5 and they made me look like I was wearing my DH’s shoes. The clunky boot style really doesn’t work with my proportions.

Try the Steve Madden Leopold boot. I have similar stats and these are more refined but don’t make my feet look huge and manly.

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I have short legs- the above ankles just make my legs look shorter.... I go with below the ankle and a little flair.