Vogue Editors Pick the Boyfriend Jeans They’d Most Like to Borrow Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Dylan Rieder / @swankfuck_inc1/17Sally Singer, Vogue Creative Digital Director
“The best boyfriend jeans make one feel lanky and portable (qualities one also seeks in the best boyfriend!). Dylan Rieder always nails the abbreviated lean silhouette in his dark skinnies.”
Photo: Courtesy of Zoetrope Studios2/17Nicole Phelps, Director, Vogue Runway
“My vote goes to the boys in The Outsiders. Their fifties-style high-water Levi’s—or at least the early eighties versions of them—look really good to me right now. Matt Dillon’s especially.”
Photo: Getty Images3/17Sarah Mower, Vogue Contributing Editor
“The Ramones' jeans. Joey, Dee Dee . . . or any would do. God rest their souls.”
Photo: Getty Images4/17Chioma Nnadi, Vogue.com Fashion News Director
“Jimi has been my denim spirit animal for a while. The flower-child embroidered denim shirts, the weatherworn flares styled just so, with a bandana at the knee—I live for all of it. I would probably have to have said snake-hipped flares altered quite a bit to fit me (well at least denim patches are in!), but it would be totally worth it.”
Photo: Getty Images5/17Alessandra Codinha, Vogue.com Fashion News Editor
“Steve McQueen's, because, I mean, who wouldn't?”
Photo: Getty Images6/17Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue.com Archive Editor
“If I wore jeans, I'd like to wear them like Robert Smith of the Cure, dark and with an outsize men's jacket to emphasize proportions.”
Photo: Getty Images7/17Rebecca Bengal, Vogue.com Contributing Editor
“I want to raid Neil Young's closet for the amazing patchworked pair he wore on the gatefold and back cover of After the Gold Rush.”
Photo: Getty Images8/17Emily Farra, Vogue.com Fashion News Associate
“I'm still loving flared jeans, but I've yet to find any quite like John Lennon's circa the seventies. That true-blue wash and slightly cropped, narrow bootcut looked even better with a matching denim jacket. And round sunglasses, obviously!”
Photo: Courtesy of Paramount Pictures9/17Catherine Piercy, Vogue.com Beauty Director
“All the guys in The Warriors! Black, blue, and burgundy denim. Slightly slouchy, yet fitted in all the right ways.”
Photo: Getty Images10/17Kristin Anderson, Vogue.com Fashion News Writer
“Predictable? Perhaps, but there are only a handful of onscreen looks that inspire in me such a visceral, capital-W want as Martin Sheen's getup in Badlands. The film is chock full of nods to James Dean, but Sheen's white tee, Levi's Big E 507xx jacket, and 501s made a mold all their own—and a tawny young Sheen isn't half bad either.”
Photo: Getty Images11/17Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue.com Beauty Editor
“Jackson Pollock’s incidentally splattered raw denim (worn casually rolled or haphazardly stacked at the cuff) is the epitome of personalization and broken-in perfection. If I can’t have them, I’ll take Elvis’s crisp, exposed stitch, drainpipe pants (and matching jacket) in Jailhouse Rock, which made being a convict look like an asset.”
Photo: Getty Images12/17Marjon Carlos, Vogue.com Senior Fashion Writer
“No one—and I do mean no one—can do a denim tuxedo quite like Bob Marley. From his lived-in chambrays paired with the perfect stonewashed flares with just the right amount of bell and crease—and then he just effortlessly slipped the coolest and illest-fitting vintage tee underneath it all? I would raid his denim wardrobe shamelessly.”
Photo: Courtesy of Wildwood Enterprises13/17Janelle Okwodu, Vogue.com Contributing Fashion News Writer
“Robert Redford’s wardrobe in Three Days of the Condor has always stood out to me as epitomizing preppy, all-American style. Granted, Redford looks good in just about anything but his light-wash jeans worn with peacoats, seventies-style sweater vests, and aviators are well worth borrowing.”
Photo: Bauer-Griffin/GC Images14/17Edward Barsamian, Vogue.com Style Editor
“I’m always on the hunt for the perfect white jean and when the Wests stepped out earlier this year for Easter in matching all white ensembles, I immediately wanted to snatch off Kanye’s perfectly distressed, yet pristine jeans. Slightly slouchy, yet tapered, his winning denim looks great with Chelsea boots and a tee or equally cool with sick kicks and a leather jacket.”
Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Corporation15/17Zoe Ruffner, Vogue.com Photo Researcher
“River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton’s jeans in Stand by Me—narrow in the waist, loose in the legs, cuffed, ripped, and patched—is exactly how I d like all of my jeans to be. Worn with tucked-in tees and Converse, it may be a simple look, but it never gets old.”
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros.16/17Abby Aguirre, Vogue.com Culture Editor
“I'll go with the pair Keith Richards wore throughout the holiday he took in Joshua Tree with Anita Pallenberg and Gram Parsons in 1969. Sometimes they're rolled to the knee, sometimes they're all he has on. They definitely held up . . . ”
Photo: Courtesy of Imagine Television17/17Alexandra Macon, Vogue.com Managing Editor
“Brooding bad boy Tim Riggins knows how to rock denim well. I'd be happy borrowing anything from this man, but his boot-cut pairs are low-slung and well worn in—basically the perfect boyfriend jean. Now what's a girl gotta do to call him her boyfriend? Texas forever. (Oh wait, I'm married!)”
