Peg or roll your jeans if you want. It’s a trendy alternative to wearing your cropped or capri jeans. I’ve noticed several petite height celebrities have gone the peg leg jeans route, including Reese Witherspoon. Perhaps peg leg jeans make their legs look longer, they must think. In case you need advice on how to perform the proper fold and roll techniques, check out this article:
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Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times (August 3, 2008):
“The comeback: Peg-and-roll pants”
Proper proportions
Before you roll, choose jeans cut straight and loose through the leg
but not wide (and never M.C. Hammer baggy). Look for a men’s fit — a
worn-in pair of Levi’s 501s or soft cargoes are perfect. “They should
sit low on your hips,” Current [of Current/Elliott] says. “They should be sexy and slinky,
not big, baggy weekend jeans.”
In the fold
Key to the silhouette is the tapered leg. But if you don’t have tapered
jeans (and who does?) and don’t want to tailor your bottoms, you can
resort to the old junior high school practice of self-tapering (“Bring
it back, I love it,” squeals Current). Just hold your pant leg taut,
fold a section over the ankle, then tightly roll up the whole package.
Just be careful not to taper pant legs so severely they look like
they’re glued to your calf.
Make it a double
“We like a very messy thin roll, rolled twice so you see a little above
the ankle,” said Current. Pants should look as though they were hiked
up to go wading through a stream.
Body talk
Because the silhouette sits low on the hips and is cut loose, it works
on both curvy and straight bodies. But the petite or short-waisted
should opt for a slightly less pegged roll, so proportions aren’t so
extreme.
Top it off
Skintight men’s tank tops, oversized T-shirts, frilly blouses — rolled
jeans can be worn with most anything. But the silhouette looks best
when the waistband is showing — so get tucking.
The extras
Because the pants are meant to hang on the hips, a cool belt is key to
keeping them in place. Stylish options include raw leather,
vintage-looking belts for day and skinnier, patent leather belts for
night. The boyish look also lends itself to “more feminine, statement
jewelry,” Current says — anything from long strands of pearls over a
Hanes T-shirt to bunches of rhinestone brooches pinned to a tuxedo
jacket lapel.
On your feet
Shoes are so bold and outrageous right now, and this jean shows them off.Gladiators,
ballet flats and pumps (ones that cover the vamp of the foot work
especially well) are all on the menu with rolled jeans. But leave the
ankle boots in the closet, or you’ll risk looking like a Keebler elf.
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If you prefer not to mess around with your hems, try Current/Elliott‘s new line of pre-peg leg Boyfriend Jeans! These are not the “peg leg” jeans that other brands such as Diesel and J Brand are selling. Those are just tapered jeans.
L to R: Boyfriend Jean in Super Loved Destroyed, and in Hickory Stripe.
Pre-order yours online at:
Singer22
InterMix
Chick Downtown
Also arriving soon at eLUXURY.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
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