15 Black-Jeans Outfit Ideas — Cute Black-Denim Outfits - Cosmopolitan |
- 15 Black-Jeans Outfit Ideas — Cute Black-Denim Outfits - Cosmopolitan
- Marks & Spencer's super soft jeans with "slimming" stripes are perfect for autumn - goodhousekeeping.com
- Toward a Universal Theory of ‘Mom Jeans’ - The Atlantic
| 15 Black-Jeans Outfit Ideas — Cute Black-Denim Outfits - Cosmopolitan Posted: 20 Sep 2019 01:47 PM PDT  raydene hansenGetty Images Fall is basically the start of black-jeans season. It seems like an unwritten rule that once the weather starts to get colder, you start breaking out all your dark denim, right? And, by the way, black styles go with just as many things as blue ones, ranging from edgy and casual to dressy and chic, so you can style them in tons of different ways. (Another note: Even when they're kinda dirty, no one knows! Just sayin'.) Here, 15 black-jean outfit ideas you can wear—and shop!—right now. If Your Jeans Have...Cuts and Frays Contrast your distresse- black denim by making the rest of your look polished and pulled together. A chic coat and structured bag'll do the trick.  Getty Images     If Your Jeans Have...EmbellishmentsPearls will elevate your everyday black jeans into something really special. These kinds of jeans are perfect when you want to keep things simple because the details are the focal point here.  Getty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Split-Front SeamsWant to add some fun to an otherwise simple pair of black jeans? Go with a style that has a slight split up the middle, seen here. Keep it casual with a graphic tee and "naked sandals" for an everyday look.  Christian VierigGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Wide CuffsIf you have gorgeous fall boots that you want to show off, this style is an excellent way to highlight them. Pair it with a cropped sweater and statement sunnies to turn heads.  Christian VierigGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Pleated DetailsThis throwback '80s silhouette is slightly baggy, so it may not be everyone's taste, but with the right top, outerwear, and accessories it can actually look super elevated.  Getty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Dramatic Side ZippersBlack jeans are inherently a little edgier, but if you want to go all out, try one that has a side zipper. Lean even more into the "all-black" thing with a patent leather jacket, turtleneck, beret, and lace-up shoes.  Edward BerthelotGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Straight LegsOpt for these jeans if you don't want to go too skinny or too wide. They look especially stylish if they're high-waisted and paired with a patterned turtleneck and boots, seen here.  Josiah KamauGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...A Formal VibeA simple pair can look fancy as hell, thanks to an oversize metallic blazer, bandeau, and peep-toe heels.  Christian VierigGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Raw HemsWide-leg black jeans with a heavily frayed edge look on-trend when worn with a "grandmillenial" button-up cardigan and frame bag.  Edward BerthelotGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...A High WaistShow off your (sky) high-waisted jeans by tucking in your T-shirt. Keep the rest of the 'fit low-key with Converse and a crossbody.  Claudio LaveniaGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...A Skinny Frayed HemTransition your go-to black jeans from the weekend to the office with a polished plaid blazer, red mules, and a fashionable purse.  Edward BerthelotGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...Statement PocketsThe more pockets the better! Workwear pants are definitely having a moment, but instead of going with an army-green hue, opt for a pair like this with contrast white stitching. Complete the streetwear vibe with a hoodie and sneaks.  Daniel ZuchnikGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...A Faded WashDon't want to go with a true black wash? Choose a slightly lighter charcoal shade, and offset the vibe with a pretty white blouse, mules, and top-handle.  Christian VierigGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...An Exposed Button FlyAdd more bling to your jeans by showing off your fly. Seriously. Then add a cape, printed top, hatband, and pumps to make it ultra sophisticated.  Christian VierigGetty Images     If Your Jeans Have...A Mid-Rise WaistYou can never go wrong with a classic mid-rise black jean in your wardrobe. Show a little skin by wearing with an open shacket (shirt-jacket hybrid) and a bralette underneath. Or, button up the top if you're feeling more modest.  Getty Images      |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2019 04:49 AM PDT Now that autumn is on the way, we're looking to invest in some new everyday basics for the colder months ahead – and Marks & Spencer's Carrie Bling jeans have just shot straight to the top of our new season wish-list. Part of M&S' new "Super Soft" denim collection, these £30 jeans promise to put comfort first and offer lots of stretch, according to the product description. But the one thing that's really piqued our interest in these jeans is their figure-flattering side stripes. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article Sharing a snap of the Carrie Super Soft Bling Skinny Jeans in Grey on Instagram, M&S described the stripe detailing as "slimming", and we couldn't agree more... Fans seem to be loving the jeans too, with one follower writing: "These sound amazing! Love the stripe detailing!" Another added, "Love the look of these jeans". Also available in Khaki, the skinny jeans come in three different leg lengths – short, regular and long – so you can find your perfect fit. We don't know about you but we might just have to pick up both pairs!  Marks & Spencer BUY NOW M&S Collection Carrie Super Soft Bling Skinny Jeans, Grey, Marks & Spencer, £29.50  Marks & Spencer BUY NOW M&S Collection Carrie Super Soft Bling Skinny Jeans, Khaki, Marks & Spencer, £29.50 And here are a few more of our favourite jeans in the new Super Soft range...     |
| Toward a Universal Theory of ‘Mom Jeans’ - The Atlantic Posted: 28 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT  When I was 19 years old, brimming with the kind of giddy, fragile confidence common to those who have just returned to campus to start their sophomore year of college, I marched into the edgiest salon in our particular suburb of Chicago and asked an objectively edgy stylist to shear off all my hair. I wanted a funky, razor-cut pixie, the kind that style gurus often imposed on America's Next Top Model contestants at the time , and when I walked home afterward, I was thrilled with the results—that is, until I sent a grainy selfie I'd taken on my flip phone to a friend of mine from high school. "A little motherly," she texted, "but cute!" I was incensed, and it didn't help that I could picture the devastatingly cheery thing my own mother would say if I told her about this insult: "What's wrong with a mom haircut? Mom haircuts are low-maintenance." Forty-five minutes into having short hair, I was officially growing it back out. When you inject the idea of motherhood into something, well, to put it bluntly, it loses its sex appeal. To "mom dance," for example, is to dance embarrassingly. Fairly or not, dresses, underwear, and heels that could be described as "matronly" are, at least according to fashion authorities, to be avoided. As are mom haircuts. Mom jeans, however, are an exception—or at least, they are now. Although the 2003 Saturday Night Live sketch that popularized the phrase mom jeans did so as a pejorative (and the jeans did languish in uncoolness for more than a decade afterward), they've enjoyed a recent renaissance. Today, the silhouette—thick, nonstretchy denim with a high waist, straight legs, and a moderately loose, or "relaxed," fit—can regularly be seen on models, influencers, and "VSCO girl" types on Instagram. Mom jeans, profoundly uncool and then suddenly very cool, got their revenge: The cyclical nature of fashion (and a mid-2010s shift in the national mood) helped rescue and revive a style that was long overshadowed by reductive stereotypes about moms and motherhood. Read: The terrible stereotypes of Mother's and Father's Day cards In the beginning, the mom prefix did to jeans what it does to everything else. Calling a pair of pants "mom jeans" implied that they were frumpy or dowdy—"the absolute antithesis of cool," according to Emma McClendon, the author of Denim: Fashion's Frontier and a curator at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In the 2003 SNL sketch, a fake commercial voiceover describes a "nine-inch zipper" and says the pants are "cut generously, to fit a mom's body." The pants, the voiceover adds, are a garment that says, "I'm not a woman anymore. I'm a mom." As McClendon points out, in 2003, the trendiest jeans sat low on the hips and tight around the thighs, resulting in a body-hugging, skin-baring look (think Britney Spears's "I'm a Slave 4 U" video). At the time, high-rise, nonstretchy, loose-fitting denim could not have been more out of vogue—and yet, as the SNL sketch writers astutely observed, moms were wearing it anyway. As it turns out, moms were wearing mom jeans not because they were moms, but because they'd always worn mom jeans. "In the history of jeans as a garment, that high-rise, straight-leg, no-stretch-denim [template] is actually very typical," both for men and women, McClendon told me. "The very first jeans that were really made for women—ladies' Levi's, from the 1930s—you could arguably call them mom jeans. They were basically 501 jeans [the classic Levi's cut] but with a higher rise." Those Levi's were also the first pair of women's jeans to be mentioned in Vogue, McClendon added, in a spread about what to wear on vacation if you were visiting a dude ranch. Jeans retained that silhouette into the '50s and early '60s, and according to McClendon, they remained popular among women, especially moms, as apparel for gardening or outdoor work at home. In the late '60s, young people popularized flare-leg jeans with lower waists. But by the late '70s, high-end brands had started to push back against the suddenly passé hippie look, bringing back high waistlines and straight legs. "Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, they start selling these sophisticated jeans. They're not faded, they're not ripped, they're super high-rise," McClendon said. The '90s then brought a grungier look to the trendiest jeans, but they maintained their high waists and got looser in fit. For most women who came of age in the latter half of the 20th century, then, straight-legged and high-waisted jeans were pretty much always a cool, or at the very least perfectly normal, thing to wear out into the world. But it makes perfect sense that the term mom jeans would come about as a pejorative at a time when high-waisted, loose-fitting jeans looked particularly conservative compared with what trendy young women were wearing. As Beth Montemurro, a sociology professor at Penn State University at Abington who researches gender and sexuality over the life course, told me, many stereotypes about moms and motherhood serve to desexualize mothers. "There seems to be a separation between the identities of 'woman' and 'mother,'" Montemurro said, and an expectation that "a mother is a particular type of woman whose focus is on her children, or should be … and often she's expected to be an example of modesty, particularly for her daughters." (This is despite the fact that sex and motherhood are, in most cases, necessarily linked, she added.) The stereotype is so powerful that linking something to motherhood can extinguish its sex appeal pretty quickly. Mom haircuts, mom sneakers—phrases like these call to mind an image of "somebody who's not necessarily with it," Montemurro said, enough so that MILF and cool mom have emerged as descriptors that signify an exception to the norm of unsexy, uncool motherhood. Fashion, however, is both a cycle and a pendulum, McClendon noted: Trends come, go, and later come around again. Many fashion trends simply boil down to the exact opposite of what was just trendy. The ultra-low-rise, flared jeans popular among women in the 2000s harked back to the jeans of the late '60s, so it was only a matter of time before jeans began to once again look more like the high-waisted, straight-legged jeans of the late '70s and '80s. But this time there was a phrase for that silhouette—and today, brands such as Zara, Madewell, H&M, Levi's, Reformation, and Topshop all sell a high-waisted, straight-legged, rigid-denim product advertised explicitly as a "mom jean." Many industry analysts and observers attribute the resurgence of the mom jean, and other formerly uncool items such as fanny packs and "dad sneakers," to the semi-ironic "normcore" trend that arose in the mid-2010s. "Clothes that were otherwise considered frumpy 10 years ago are now being picked up and championed," McClendon said, "as a sort of rebuke, but in a tongue-in-cheek way." Read: The sneaky way clothing brands hooked men on stretch jeans But McClendon suggested that there's more driving the shift toward modest, comfortable, practical clothing than playful irony. After the 2016 election and the national reckoning with powerful men's sexual misconduct sparked by the #MeToo movement, she began to notice a clear "shift away from extremely sexy clothes, toward a more unisex style," she told me. She saw women ditch their stilettos for designer sneakers and their dresses for tailored suits. "The tight clothes, the high heels—there was this general sense of Why am I wearing these things?" As the national mood sobered, McClendon noted, the body-punishing, form-fitting extremes to which high-profile women pushed their looks in the 2000s (McClendon pointed to Lady Gaga and her famously tall heels as an example) gave way to androgynous shapes and looks that prioritized comfort. Today, the zeitgeist-iest young pop star of the moment is 17-year-old Billie Eilish, "who wears very large, oversized clothing that's completely body-obscuring and unisex," she added. Of course, McClendon recognized that the pendulum could once again swing the other way, bringing back skintight denim (and skin itself). But fashion historians, she told me, will likely look back on the latter half of the 2010s as a time when men's and women's clothes looked quite similar—and mom jeans, with their notable similarities to classic styles of men's jeans, "are certainly a part of that." One sticky afternoon this summer, a decade after my mom-haircut debacle, I ducked into a denim store in midtown Manhattan, in need of a new pair of jean shorts before I escaped to a lake house for the weekend. I tried on the first acceptable-looking pair I found—a light-washed, high-waisted pair with a roomy posterior, with "Mom Short" printed on the tag. I left with three pairs, each in a different color. Unlike the ultra-low-rise bootcuts my friends and I had spent our teen years struggling to bend over in, or the super-stretchy skinny jeans we spent our 20s trying to wriggle into, these were both comfortable and flattering, politely concealing everything I now know I don't have to put on display to feel accepted. Maybe, I thought that weekend, as I zipped up my new jean shorts and headed outside to the pier, our mothers were right all along. We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.  Ashley Fetters is a staff writer at The Atlantic.  |
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