Are Skinny Jeans Making a Comeback in 2025?
In an age defined by looser fitting clothing like baggy t-shirts and baggy pants, you would think skinny jeans would not be an after thought, much like poulaines aren’t. Now skinny jeans were once a major fashion statement that was loved for its versatility in styling, you could dress them down in sneakers or dress them up with heels, either way you were bound to look super stylish. At some point, we had different coloured skinny jeans. Colour blocking was a huge thing in the 2010s. Skinny jeans making a major comeback was not in my 2025 bingo card. Let’s explore how skinny jeans are making a return.
The skinny jeans resurgence has been seen on runways. Shawn Grain Carter, a fashion professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology says, “on the runways, Prada, Isabel Morant and Tod’s all did very slim silhouette pants. They’re calling them skinny pants. The difference is that they’re doing them in plaid, not just solids. They’re doing them in these very tailored fabrics.” Now while this does not scream skinny jeans are back, it whispers softly that they’re slowly being reintroduced - maybe not entirely the same way as fashion moves forward it makes little changes. Unlike leg hugging skinny jeans, skinny pants have a looser fit in comparison.
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Millennials claim skinny jeans are a definitive part of their generation. Skinny jeans are to millennials what baggy jeans are to Gen-Z: a definitive part of being a young adult. Millennials were the generation to drift from the 90s iconic straight leg high waisted jeans that Gen-Z have embraced. While some Gen-Z influencers like Alix Earle are reviving and making skinny jeans popular again, most Gen-Zs are hesitant to see them as anything but an outdated look. This might seem inconsistent, given how Gen-Z have brought back 90s fashion trends and Y2K pieces, but then again the fact that they have lived through the skinny jean era might be a contributing factor.
Levi Strauss CEO Michelle Gass expects skinny jeans to make a comeback sometime in the future. Her advice? “The denim closet really should have all varieties of denim. So keep your loose, keep your baggie. Everything right now goes.” Ultimately fashion trends come and go, what’s out there is not new and what’s new isn’t out there.
