Skinny jeans R.I.P
Girls with curves, rejoice — the drainpipe is dead, long live baggy ‘boyfriend’ jeans. Claudia Croft explains how to wear this spring’s more forgiving denim
I am now going to say something that will make the curvaceous members of Britain’s female population extremely happy. Skinny jeans are over. The oh-so-everywhere drainpipe fad, made popular by Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Victoria Beckham and just about anyone who fancied themselves a size 8 (whether they were or not), is receding faster than Jude Law’s hairline. After seasons of the spray-on look, fashion is going baggy in a big way.
Earlier this month in New York, the forward-thinking designer Marc Jacobs declared that wide-legged strides were the way forward. His catwalk was full of loose jeans and trousers under layers of dresses, skirts and coats, a look that is the polar opposite of body-conscious. And Jacobs is not alone in touting the baggy look.
The London-based label Superfine, creator of the spray-on Liberty drainpipe, the skinniest of all skinny jeans, is also doing a super-loose pair called Beau, which puddle around the feet or can be rolled up and secured with a leather strap. Whichever way you wear them, the result is the same: sexy and louche, but not in a try-hard “look at my camel’s hoof” kind of way.
Suddenly, the skinny jeans that many young women have starved themselves into are no longer the hippest, most must-have thing in denim-dom. The hot shape of the moment is the slouchy “boyfriend” jean, so called because its loose, baggy structure makes it look like you borrowed them from the man in your life. As well as Superfine’s, you will find boyfriend jeans by Levi’s, Paper Denim & Cloth and Gap. The death of skinny denim is good news for women with thighs. The boyfriend is much less demanding than the drainpipe and can be very flattering. Wear a long, wide-legged pair with heels, for instance, and you will create a flattering, elongated silhouette, but getting the baggy look right still requires thought. Choose a pair that looks good on your bum. For instance, Superfine’s might be loose, but they also make the posterior look perky. “Don’t wear them with a long cardie like you did with skinny jeans. Balance out the volume of the legs with something shorter and more fitted on top,” says the Superfine designer, Flora Evans.
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