![]() While the mid-rise and low-rise jeans sit lower on your waist, high-rise jeans provide full coverage. Typically, high-rise jeans measure about 10 inches from the crotch to the waistband. Our perception of what looks cool has shifted, and though I'm a little miffed to realise that the skinny jean isn't, as I had previously thought, my denim life partner, it's a sign of a greater shift in fashion, and that is always exciting.High-rise jeans sit above your waist for a snug fit. Not to mention, that the elastane you find in your typical pair of skinny jeans or jeggings is unrecyclable and deeply bad for the planet. 'As soon as they started bastardising the denim and putting in too much stretch, it became trashy.' I think it comes with being a certain age – you look more rock'n'roll in skinny jeans, but more elegant in boyfriend jeans,' she says, adding that she finds the best jeans courtesy of Levi's, Monki and H&M.īut where did it all go wrong for skinny jeans? 'Jeggings ruined them,' says Donna Wallace, ELLE's former Accessories Editor, who favours a pair of Lee straight-leg men's jeans that she's cut off at the hems. 'It was very hard to get out of skinnies, especially being French, but now I find it hard to get back into them. Parisian writer, creative consultant and ELLE UK Contributing Editor Camille Charrière agrees. 'Plus, the denim styles at the moment are moving away from slick silhouettes to more relaxed and voluminous – and I love that.'
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