Oh, that’s interesting about the barrel shape fabrication, Lisa. I think (at least for me) there is a balance. I agree that if they’re too fluid, then what’s the point — the shape is lost. But my Nili Lotan pants are lightweight but a twill that does hold the barrel shape. Somehow the Ruti felt too wide all the way from the hip down — like there was a ton of fabric around my lower thigh and knee, and it just seemed weird. I don’t exactly have skinny legs, quite the contrary, and it’s not how they look online. I kinda want to try the Nili Lotan version that the Ruti ones seem to be copying, but it’s a lot of $$ to shell out.
On a more general note, about jeans collections, I do notice that many of my pairs have lasted many years. I still have my Pilcro boyfriend jeans from, what, a decade ago?? They are mostly around-the-house wear now but still in really decent shape. I have bootcut AGs that still look new, and my Dojo bootcuts have been around a long time too.
I remembered too that I have a pair of a chambray-linen wide-leg pants that I guess qualify as jeans. They are summer only as they are lightweight and my weight was up a bit too much to wear them last summer. I’ve had those for easily a decade as well. Again, an Anthro item that has lasted well.
I have some jeans in my consign/clothing swap bags — a couple of AG skinnies, a pair of Rag & Bone wide legs that are just plain too big, my cropped Mothers and stupidly another pair from Mother that I ended up hating (note to self, don’t bother with Mother — they are so stretchy and high-waisted that they give me a stomach pooch that actually does not exist on my body!). There is also a pair of nice 7FAM that I must have bought on a skinny day several years ago — they constrict my waist whenever I try them on so they have to go. I have the same silhouette in other jeans so why hang onto them.
My favorite local boutique just had a denim sale, and I didn’t even bother looking because I know I am fully stocked!
