Idon’t know when it happened, but at some point over the summer, I started to tire of overly balloonish baggy jeans . They’re too adolescent , I started thinking, they make me look too short (I’m 5ft2 while stretching, for reference). The nail in the coffin came at one editorial meeting back in June when British Vogue ’s Julia Hobbs sighed: “Oh, baggy jeans are so over”. Indeed, tighter, more straight-leg fits had already started to take over the Vogue office with aplomb, and my baggiest jeans started gathering dust in the closet.
But if there’s one person who’s actually changed my mind, one person who wears loose-fitting jeans the way they ought to be worn in 2025, it’s 35-year-old actor Jennifer Lawrence , who can’t get enough of classic blue slouchy jeans, and who makes