Over the last few years, the trend in womens denim has gone from super duper skinny legs - we’re talking skin-tight, legging silhouettes to the widest of the wide-leg jean. It’s probably the largest swing on the fashion pendulum I’ve ever seen!
Maybe it was the pandemic that did it? People wanting more comfortable clothing to wear at home? Much, much higher waistbands to pack all of that comfort food under?
Regardless, the transformation to wider-leg bottoms has been happening for a couple of years now, and I finally had to cave because skinny jeans are starting to look really out of style now. The fashion eye has changed and the general public has accepted this shift.
I remember being part of shaping the skinny jean. Back in 2002 I started working for a denim company and worked with some of the biggest (and THE biggest) jeansmakers in the world. I could go on and on and on about the evolution of the low waist and the tiniest fly-front zippers and the silhouettes making huge shifts to accommodate the skinny low-rise styles.
So 20+ years later, it only makes sense. Fashion cycles and big shifts take about that long.
When I started my new job last year I bought a couple of pairs of “mom jeans” with straighter legs and wider silhouettes, but I never could get into those and they only make me look dumpy, frumpy and sad.
Now that I’ve lost some significant weight, I decided to start watching some influencers to see how they are wearing the wide legs and how they style them…and trying to figure out how I could afford to change my whole casual wardrobe - because remember, when you have a shift like this on the bottom, you also have to shift the top for balance! Some people don’t realize this, but yes! Any big shift in proportions of a focal point is going to cause a ripple effect. You adjust the weight on the bottom…you gotta change the top!
Ugh. I’m out of time. I’ll continue this later!
GS
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