Straight-cut denims are fast becoming the timeless antidote to fashion’s relentless trend cycle
When it comes to fashion power struggles, there is no greater battle than the one between baggy and skinny jeans. But now a new style is emerging, or is it an old one?
Goldilocks jeans – ie straight cut – have made a comeback. Think Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor, rather than Jeremy Clarkson’s bootcut Top Gear era or an indie band’s painted-on pip-squeezers.
Leon Hedgepeth, a menswear writer who coined the term “Goldilocks jeans”, describes the style as “not too skinny, not too baggy – just right”.
Levi’s’ bestselling jeans of all time – the 501, worn by everyone from Marlon Brando to Steve Jobs and Kate Moss – best encapsulates the shape.
