In the Y2K days of pagers and landlines, bootcut jeans were the de rigueur uniform of angsty teenage mall rats. Though the capacious denim style eventually went dormant, it has reawoken in 2025.

It was only a matter of time before bootcut jeans made their comeback. We sat back and watched as the most unexpected Noughties trends reared their heads – from peplums and UGG boots ...

I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I think we might have a new pair of ‘It’ jeans on our hands. In the past few months alone, I’ve seen one style pop up over and over again: Bootcut.