But bootcut styles are for the moment reportedly still popular with luxury shoppers: on menswear site Mr Porter, customer searches for bootcut jeans have increased by 346% in the past six months.
Given the chatter around the return of skinny jeans, Kelly is feeling positive about what has been a divisive fashion moment: “Whether or not you’re a fan of his look, I think we should all be thankful that Kendrick turned the tides toward a bootcut instead.”.
Kendrick Lamar’s bootcut jeans steal Super Bowl half-time show Rapper’s blue-washed pair by Celine were object of derision and lust in momentous performance.
Whether the sight of these jeans on such a historic world stage will galvanise a moment for bootcut jeans depends on who you talk to.
While Gap doesn’t currently have any men’s bootcut jeans, it is, according to its head of buying Sapna Brooks, “seeing the trend and sales grow immensely across women’s and girls, which indicates that they are a style a lot of people are after at the moment”.
