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For the past decade, skinny and straight-leg jeans have reigned supreme. Everyone and their moms wore second-skin bottoms with tapered or semi-tapered hems that weren’t exactly the most comfortable—or forgiving—bottom of choice. Well, the skinny jeans trend eventually evolved and shifted into mom jeans (high-waisted denim with a more relaxed fit), which have now bowed down to a new denim trend: dad jeans.
Dad jeans, in case you’re not familiar with them, are a little like mom jeans—but just different. Both have a more relaxed and comfortable fit and a high waist, but dad jeans have more of a straight-leg fit with a looser leg profile, while mom jeans are usually tapered around the hips and thighs. Consider dad jeans the denim cousin of your pandemic sweats: They’re here to support you in whatever you want to do and have zero plans to constrain you along the way.