Pant-Shoe Interaction - Topic of the day 1/25/25
How do you like your pants and shoes to interact - do you like a lot of pooling? A lot of crop? A break in between? How do things like raw hems or rolled cuffs affect things?
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what works for the outfit
I don’t think I’ve ever thought about this much tbh and sometimes it shows.
I think I prefer no break but I do turn ups for all my pants most of the time, so I reckon it probably is never the vibe that’s being transmitted.
depends on what inseam I’m able to get tbh, 30 will lead to no break and be slightly above the ankle 32 is barely a break, 33 is a “proper break” 34+ is for stacking or to cuff
I will say this was probably the first big shift I made as I started paying more attention to clothes. I have short legs and need a ~28 inseam but almost all my pants were 30 since lots of places don't sell 28. Hemming had a big impact on the "look" of an outfit. I'm coming to prefer no break since I think it works better for my style.
this is the most vibes part of fashion. being able to figure out what hem to put on your pants and how you will use it, and its one of the most important parts of the outfit. There's not a ton to say, its all vibes. What you cannot do is not think about it, or not get pants hemmed if they need it
i have pants with a no break and pants with a full break and some in between it depends on the pants lol
baggy jeans where ive destroyed the hems with heelbite, flares that full break, dress pants with full break, my chino type pants are no or half break, gotta know what they need
I will recommend this as probably one of the easiest and most impactful things to "fix" for people new to this. It's easy to look like trash if your pants are baggy (and it doesn't look deliberate) even when everything else is on point. It is also easy/cheap to fix and this also isn't something that really takes a very refined eye to sort out (at least relative to other things)
I think it’s important and a dead giveaway to someone’s eye for fashion tbh. And there’s no right answer, it’s entirely context dependent
Also very much depends on the shoes you wanna pair with the fit. For example my cowboy boots have a 2'' heel so the foot is more on an angle, meaning some of my trousers that have a full break with those would be too long with flat shoes.
Anyway, getting PSI right is important, but its also kind of a pain sometimes, especially with flared stuff
9/10 times I like to have pretty much no stacking but wanting a longer pair (normally a 33, wanting a 34) so i can get a bit more stacking on my cowboy boots
I think my millennial self automatically thinks that a crop looks best, but as I wear wider legged pants and look back at my photos I see how much better breaks work for certain fits
Actually one thing to find most interesting is how it works both ways....a break can make an outfit more formal or more casual depending on the rest of the outfit.
Totally depends on the outfit and the type of shoes imo
For example with high top sneakers I don’t even want the pants to be touching my shoes but with low top sneakers I prefer a break
I have a few pants on the hem list right now, but starting to notice this is making the decision so much more agonising. Do I hem them so they look good with derbies? Loafers? Boots??
Only solution must be to buy 3 pairs of every pant
I am similar. I prefer a break on low top sneakers, but a break just doesn't seem right with boots and high top sneakers with looser fitting pants. Cowboy boots look good with basically any type of break to me. Definitely no break with loafers. It is pretty remarkable that every type of break is also in style to some extent right now.
my inseam is fucked. mild crop all the time :/
I’m about to buy a second pair of jeans for this exact reason lmao
Its overrated
as a concept
I personally think hem width and material of the pant makes the biggest difference for me. Wider cuts and/or heavier fabrics or tighter weave fabrics look a lot better with some stack than without because they can actually fall nicely on the shoe. More tapered hems and lighters fabrics always seem like the bunch weird when they fall on a shoe or start to drape weird in the calf, making the pant like disproportionate in the calf vs the thigh
But outside of really chunky shoes, I feel if it falls nicely on sneakers then it will fall nicely on boots or loafers
Or significantly high heels
because of the wide shaft, cowboy boots in particular will make pants fall differently
True but I don’t think you’d wear a small hem or highly tapered pant with cowboy boots
You absolutely shouldn't, true
Bootcut and flares are the only pants that look good w/cowboy boots
Also cropped flares are a sin, pooling or death
Wide straight too
No
Damn thought I’d sneak it in there😕
IME wide straight can work in some cases but its very boot dependent. Bootcuts and flares pretty much always hit.
Also, Hear me out: Shorts
Okay I’ll admit this but it really MOSTLY works best for folks that are dressing more femme imo
There’s a lot I think I could pull off but daisy dukes and cowboy boots ain’t one of those things :xd:
Don‘t be afraid to slay 😔🙌🏻
Shorts with boots are hot.
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I got a pair of black ropers I wear with all my wide straights, but I recognize this prolly only looks decent because it’s not a traditional cowboy boot. The widest pant I wear tho don’t go beyond 10.5” hem as I’m not a fan of really baggy pants on me
Or not traditional in the brown boot with vamp stitching western boot I meant