Something I love about the 2020s fashion trends is that skinny jeans and jeggings are slowly being phased out. While some people still cling to their skinny jeans (and the jeans cling right back), I’m so pleased to see a return to boot-cut jeans, wide-leg jeans and more ‘90s/retro cuts. It’s a welcome reprieve from years of skinny jeans being the only option. Still, the Princess of Wales loves her jeggings and skinny jeans. Or she would love them if she had been seen at all in the past four months. In Kate’s absence, the Mail is doing business-as-usual with their weird “everything Kate wears is perfect, because she’s Kate” coverage. These are placeholder articles with a dark twist these days. Like, even if Kate was out and doing events, they would have run this article. But because we’re talking about an MIA princess, it feels a bit sinister. Still, everyone loves talking about jeans, right?
Skinny jeans have divided opinion for some years now, with Gen Z and a number of fashion insiders declaring skin-tight denim to be officially over. Yet, today, the noughties throwback – which was first made famous by Kate Moss in 2005 – is clinging to the calves of celebrities and models on the catwalk and making a polarising resurgence.
After a decade of loose-legged comfort, where the dominant jean styles have been both wearable and comfortable, skinny silhouettes are trickling into all the new-season collections, from Miu Miu to Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen. There may be sceptics, but the Princess of Wales is certainly not one of them. She’s famous for her pristine dress coats and pointed pumps, but Kate Middleton is also a pro when it comes to something you might not necessarily expect from a future queen: jeans.
Remaining loyal to the skinny jean throughout her royal life, she has demonstrated the value of staying true to your own personal style, keeping them as a staple in her wardrobe. Never turning her back on the slim silhouette, she has toyed with straight-legs and flirted with flares but with her 5ft 9in frame the skinny jean gives her body shape, structure and form in a way that other denim styles do not.
‘The Princess of Wales has a timeless, beautiful style,’ says Donna Ida who has been hailed as a jeans genius and is the creator of her eponymous denim brand. ‘She has great legs and skinny jeans fit so well and accentuate her shape. It’s always great to celebrate amazing features.’
This is so dumb – Kate has worn jeggings for years because she honestly believes they’re appropriate work-wear and because she (wrongly) thinks they’re flattering. With her long-waisted frame, she should actually go a high-waisted straight-leg-cut. Kate has never gotten “pants” right – remember when she tried to copy Meghan but Kate was just suddenly wandering around in capri pants constantly for several months? But I digress. If and when Kate comes back, I hope she ditches the skinny jeans and jeggings.
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DM (aka DailyFail)…and so what?! This is really a much to do about nothing story.
I really don’t care.
I’ve never even heard of that “jeans genius” (🙄) or her brand.
On the other hand, I kinda like her old boots… slap me
You are NOT alone!
I like Kate’s old boots too!
Jeez they are so desperate to praise her for something, annnyyything, I am gagging on all this sickly sweet syrup.
They sure are!!
Maybe that’s what her honor was for- her contributions to fashion. No other Royal had so completely bucked the trend of dressing appropriately for work. She’s a radical.
Its articles like this that lead to eating disorders. Just saying its been very clear that the PoW has been underweight for years. Setting her up as a classic fashion icon in her skinny jeans no doubt has many young and not so young women in the UK and around the world in despair. Whatever her health problems they cannot have been helped by her chronic underweight condition and years of vomiting due to HG.
She might have put on weight due to treatment or her hair might not be long and shiny-and stories like these are really depressing if they expect her to look like this…
So you’re telling me Forever 21 is the new Chanel, then?
Love that response 🤗
Well, that was one of her trademarks, skinny jeans and later, the buttons.
I find it really strange that we talk about her fashion style but do not know if she’s still alive or functioning.
Except that it’s plainly not true. During the decade she was dating william Kate exclusively wore bootcut and lose jeans. You know why? Because they were in at the time. She’s a trend follower not a trendsetter. It’s the same reason we all of a sudden saw her wearing bootcut jeans and mother jeans more recently instead of skinny jeans. It’s because skinny jeans have been well and truly out since COVID
Yeah, trend-follower. I noticed the jeans she wore in her bench video were loose straight leg jeans. Granted, she’s pretty thin, but those were definitely not her usual skinnies.
I googled it and you are right. And I agree re her being a trend follower, definitely.
But I still think it creepy that we are discussing her lack of fashion and trendsetting yet have no proof of life since december.
@Chloe, exactly. The Fail likes to pretend she’s a trendsetter but she’s always been a follower.
Personally I’m glad to see skinny jeans go because I think they’re so unflattering on me, and as Kaiser said, they seemed like the only option for so long.
Exactly, Anita. Why talk about what she wore before she went MIA? She’s still MIA! That article would make sense if she had just done an event while wearing skinny jeans. She’s not doing anything though. Maybe she is getting treatment. Or maybe she’s recuperating from a facelift. Or maybe she’s just doing f*** all right now.
Why criticize someone over the jeans they wear? Everyone is allowed their own preference and general style. I stopped wearing baggy jeans after high school. I still love my skinny jeans.
Whether in fashion or not I’ve love skinny or straight leg jeans.
The relaxed fit just makes me feel bigger.
All this embiggening. How exhausting!
The starving tabs are still trying to make fetch happen, I see.
Nah, I think she’s good at the sporty side of her style. The straight-leg jeans and yoga pants suit her. And no, not a Cathy fan. At all.
She doesn’t wear straight leg jeans and yoga pants. She wears skinny jeans which are very different from straight leg jeans which are more loose fitting and not skin tight. She definitely doesn’t wear yoga pants which I would imagine would be very inappropriate for work attire as a royal.
Yeah, wracking my brain for a yoga pant photo. Maybe a few times for some tennis thing or soccer thing? The looser kind of yoga pant.
Still hypinh Kate for clothes and jewels because Kate has nothing else to bring to the table.
I’ll timidly raise my hand in favor of skinny jeans (although, I love boot cut, too). As a short, petite person, wide-leg anything makes me look stumpy and even shorter.
Hey Eurydice, fellow petite, short person here (5’1″, 105 lbs). The keys to wide legged pants at our height are as follows:
1. Match shoes to pants to create a “long leg” look.
2. The width of the leg shouldn’t be like a “palazzo” pant. It needs to be a little more tapered, *ESPECIALLY* in the hip area (width ideally should “start” at the top of hips/crotch area).
3. Pants should be high-waisted.
4. Wear a fitted top. When the bottom’s wide, top is narrow. Otherwise it looks like clown clothes, and you’re drowning in fabric.
When I do these things, honestly, I *feel* like I have long legs! It’s a very flattering look. The *KEY* is the fit of the pants through the butt/hip. Give it a try! 😊
Thanks so much for the suggestions. I’m the same size, but I must have shorter legs. Pants are such a problem for me. High-waisted come up to my ribs and any flare starts down around my ankles. At this point I think I’ll have to have some tailor made, but I’ll definitely keep your ideas in mind!
Thanks Jan! I will try this!
I still kick my mom mentally for not letting me take the home etc class in middle school. Being able to do my own tailoring and able to make my own clothes would be such a bonus.
I don’t think you have to raise your hand timidly. You make the decision based on what works best for your physical frame. I think where the issue with Kate comes in is that it isn’t because of her physical frame but because of a need to expose her physical frame for attention because she and they seem to only see her physical attributes as the only thing she brings to the table. I think that is why her skirts flying up above her head is being ignored even as recently as last year. Anyone else would be judged for such things happening constantly on a public stage but because her physical appearance has always been the only thing they obsess over, they talked about her legs at a state dinner and not the inappropriateness of her dress being raised so far above her thighs.
I’m a long torso, short leg person. Skinnies look silly on me, but straight leg or boot cut work, as long as they’re medium to high rise.
@BeanieBean, same! We’re like Kate.
I often need to take jeans to the tailor to get them shortened a little, especially if I’m wearing them with flats. It’s expensive, but I don’t want them dragging behind me on the ground!
@Eurydice Same. I’m a shorty with similar torso to leg ratios that Kate has (so yes, I get tired of people criticizing her body proportions).
None of the advice in this thread works for me. High waist jeans are uncomfortable when I sit and have HUGE gaps in the waist due to my waist to hip ratio (curvy). Straight leg jeans can work if the legs aren’t too wide but trying to find one in an appropriate length is difficult or requires tailoring. Boot cut jeans don’t drape well on me and end up bulging at my ankles. Flared jeans are a flat out no go.
Slim cut/skinny jeans with a medium rise are basically my best option. And I rarely wear jeans due to the discomfort of the material so knit pants that aren’t big legged and fit slimly are really all I wear.
Look for pants in petite sizes, they’re proportionated at the torso too. If you’re very short, try cropped pants in a petite size.
Unfortunately, for me, petite pant lengths are too short and regular are too long. I am simply very difficult to cloth. Clothes shopping is a nightmare and has been since I was young. Mom made most of my clothes out of necessity (luckily she enjoyed it).
But thank you for the suggestion!
All these recent fawning stories have a distinct whiff of desperation, almost like a “don’t forget meee” vibe. I don’t know if it’s the British media’s desperation to hold something up against the attention on Meghan rolling out ARO or if it’s from Middleton quarters, but it’s pretty embarrassing either way.
I think these stupid articles about Kate are an attempt to make it look like everything is perfectly normal and there is no reason to question why a person who lives to be on camera, and rushes out to be seen any time Meghan gets even an inch of news space for a project, hasn’t been seen in public with a verifiable proof of life since December 25, 2023.
Kate hasn’t been seen since *last year* but sure let’s talk about her pants in an attempt to distract the public from talking about the fact that the gorram Princess of Wales is flat out missing and her husband, the future King of England, is persona non grata with his father the current King of England, the Windsors, and the Tories.
Kate really is so 2023. We’re so far into 2024 (and I often think “wha!?!) and no sign of Kate and her fashion choices. I’ll say some jeans are timeless, but none that I’ve seen her wear. To be fair I’m picturing older photos of 501s which always seem timeless to me and I rarely see them worn by any celeb.
I still wear skinny jeans – I like them. I also wear straight leg, boot cut, relaxed fit, some wider legs – I like to mix it up. Whatever floats your boat!
but seriously LOL to this article about how Kate is a style icon because she likes skinny jeans.
Clinging to an out of trend style isn’t being a style icon so much as being old and unfashionable. These British tabs are really scraping the barrel here.
Yes, they might as well say Anne is a style icon. But, I guess at some point the clothes become iconic, if not the wearer – like Elizabeth’s hats and handbags and Angela Merkel’s hundreds of colored jackets.
I’d argue that Kate’s “signature” style is the parade of coatdresses in every color of the rainbow…no one else dressed like that, and she clearly liked them. Yes they were dowdyAF and most of us despised them, lol, but they came to represent Kate in a way because she wore them so consistently and many of them were bespoke.
They could have been for Kate what bright colors were for the Queen (for lack of a better comparison). But then she started copying Meghan, and all of her own tastes went out the window. Her “style” has been a messy mishmash ever since. She should have stuck to being herself, but clearly she was too insecure.
The Jam is really getting to them, this article wreaks of desperation .Meghan is getting some attention, lets write a BS article about Gone girl.
I can’t help but feel that all of this recent “embiggening” – the praise, the ridiculous honor/title, the recent forced comparisons to Princess Diana – is in preparation for an announcement of some kind.
It’s as if they’re simultaneously trying to pad her resume and ensure that the most recent things said about her are not that she was identified as one of the royal racists and someone who regularly doctored and manipulated “photos.”
I know we all have our own speculations about what might be going on behind the scenes, but I think she’s either incapacitated or no longer here. And the powers that be are desperately trying to convince the public that she’s here, all is well, nothing to see here, she’ll be out in her buttons and jeggings in no time.
These desperate attempts feel dark and ugly and twisted to me.
I don’t believe a word of what they say.
Maybe I’m overthinking this, but is the whole point of the article to keep “future queen” in the public discourse? Are skinny jeans (vs. anything substantial, such as real social platforms) just the vehicle? (Even though, as Chiclit wisely points out, the damaging point of this fluff is the praising of “thin,” equating that with “style” and “class.”) Irresponsible either way.
I’m just grateful that Meghan wasn’t mentioned in this useless piece.
Lol, I thought there was something refreshing about this article.
You’re right! I honestly cannot think of another recent article about any of the Leftovers that didn’t mention H or M.
I’m old enough that I wore them the first time, (we distressed them ourselves), and their return. This time, you will have to pull them from my cold, dead fingers. My body type is best suited for skinny jeans and jeggings. I won’t go back to looking like a huge rectangle for anyone.
You made me spit out my coffee! I’m sure you don’t look like a huge rectangle no matter what, but I will also be wearing my skinnies and I don’t care!
Kate and beautiful shouldn’t be mentioned together.
Neither timeless.
She has bad taste, and most of what she’s wearing is usually either long over or on its way out.
Neither can she do simple and classy, because no one in her family nor at court has any idea about that concept. She’s among the many rich people who can make expensive designer threads look cheap.
To quote YSL, “Fashion fades, style is eternal”. CopyKate has no personal style, as she tries to dupliKate the women in Bulliam’s life.
Here they are, trying to divert the public’s attention with these inane, insane articles rather than asking the deep and pertinent question of where is the cancer-stricken princess who would be wearing her fashionable clothing.
I remember when skinny/tapered jeans and pants came into style in the late seventies, that’s how old I am. I’m short-waisted with long slender legs so anything loose looks like it’s flapping in the wind and a skinny/jegging fit only accentuates my stork legs. Straight leg or modest boot-cut for me.
Furthermore, her skin-tight, spray-painted on jegging look is very unprofessional and is NOT perfect, timeless or beautiful, it looks way too college girl and is another example of her exhibitionism.
Skinny jeans look good on many people. I like to mix things up so I’m wearing high-waisted boot-cut right now.
From Glamour:
For her part, Meghan Markle has worn skinny jeans for multiple public outings, often balancing the casual item with an elevated blazer. For example, Markle paired black ankle skinnies with a pinstriped white blazer at the 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney, Australia. Four years later she broke out a similar pair of blue-wash skinny jeans with a belted Brandon Maxwell blazer for the same event, which took place in the Netherlands in April 2022.
Perhaps she’s hoping that Meghan would start copying HER looks so that she doesn’t look so stupid style stalking her.
She looks like budget Emma Stone in that photo.
This look is fine for your life outside work thou I worked in some places where smart casual outfits like that can and are worn – think creative ad agencies.
It’s just been announced that Chuck and Cams will host the Emperor and Empress of Japan for a state visit in June. Wonder if both of the Wails will show their faces – I know its pretty much been said she won’t be seen in public again till later in the year but Kitty loves these big state events, its her only chance to wear some bling and show off her baubles, remember she has a new one to show off.
Charles may not let kate attend. Camilla will have the selection of jewelry and attend.
And she thought Meghan wanted her fashion contacts.
Kate wears clothes. She does not have style.
I’m almost convinced they want to distract themselves from talking about their real issues and the misery that island is experiencing. I think that country is rapidly declining – And they just don’t want to talk about it. They rather write about their invisible princess and what M is up to on the other side of the pond.
These people are nuts. And they are not flattering on Kate at all. They actually highlight her long torso and rather stubby legs. She’s never dressed in clothes that would flatter her figure. She is a rectangle with a long torso and she actually seems to frequently wear the messy flattering clothes. It’s odd.
You do all realize the unhinged hatred for Kate here is almost as unhinged as the British sites hatred for Meghan?
She likes skinny jeans. They’re fine pants! They look good on her!
The difference being that the hatred against Meghan is driven by the British media in collusion with the royal family, not from social media blogs. And I disagree that comments about Kate on CB that are not complimentary are hate speech. They are generally just pointing out the completely over the top praising of Kate without justification.
wahat AMTC said, plus, don’t forget that Meghan was/is criticized for not shedding her baby weight fast enough for haters liking, she is criticized for anything in her body or her appearance, anything she says and does, even for things she hasn’t or did not do. She is attacked by the british media and haters unrelentlessly. Have you defended her and not only Kate?
Kate doesn’t get death threats and her kids don’t get compared to chimpanzees. We don’t like Kate here because she’s lazy, indifferent and useless at her job all while living a life of astonishing luxury. Plus she has a bad habit of exposing her nether regions for the cameras.
Most people are commenting on how dumb it is to write a whole article and pretend that she’s a style icon for wearing skinny jeans. That’s not hate and it is tiresome when derangers pop in and pretend that it is.
Are they still selling papers, with this crap?
Seems to me as if they are desperately trying to build a legacy for her.