The spring is coming and the 80-90s revival is already well underway, hence cropped denim is trending.
I picked me up a pretty cool pair from urban outfitters as a challenge. I’m challenging myself to adapt more urban specific looks into my wardrobe. More specifically, I’m seeing how well I can execute street looks that take on a hint of the 80s street fashion expressions.
Like all pants, cropped jeans come in a few cut differences, straight, slim and skinny.
The challenge in wearing these pants is the thing that makes them cool. Being cropped, and straight legged for the most part, the only shoes that go with these are old-school or Sk8-Hi top style vans or something similar in shape. Sock sneakers like the recently popular Balenciagas work as well. That’s about it. Not even the hightop doc martins are an automatic hit like they were with cropped or rolled denim from a few years ago.
No matter tho, for the eclectic, it is just another aspect of fashion to learn from.
Here are my top pics of where to shop these retro respect.
In no preference order
- Urban Outfitter (as seen in the photo above.)
- ASOS – they have a nice sale happening for these in multiple cuts.
- Nordstom Rack – peep these Topman cropped denim jeans for cheap.
- RVCA – they have them in chinos too
- Obey – the length is slightly longer and they have them in houndstooth chinos.
What are your thoughts on these cropped jeans taking the scene again?
Do you think they will stay mainstream?