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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

Baggy jeans are back, and the barrel-leg is the grown-up way to do them

woman in cream barrel-leg jeans and brown top
Agolde Luna barrel-leg jeans. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian. Stylist: Melanie Wilkinson

I probably shouldn’t say this, what with fashion literally being my job, but the honest-to-god truth is that you can safely ignore about 98% of fashion trends and it won’t make you any less fashionable.

A sea change in how we dress only comes around every so often. Most of what the fashion industry calls trends are just the surface ripples that happen between these big waves. Sheer skirts, mesh shoes, cowboy hats, that kind of thing.

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