Flare Jeans Are Back, so We Asked Celebrity Stylists for Their Tips on Nailing the Retro-Inspired Trend

Trends person a inclination to return erstwhile you slightest expect it, and this fall, celebrities for illustration Jennifer Lopez, Katie Holmes, Margot Robbie, Sharon Stone, and different A-listers are resurrecting a awesome throwback style: flare jeans. The retro look was hugely celebrated successful nan ’70s and moreover had a infinitesimal during nan Y2K era, but celebs person recovered ways to bring a modern touch to nan vintage bottoms. 

If you’re funny astir really to style flare jeans, PEOPLE said pinch personage stylists Cassy Meier, who has dressed Suki Waterhouse (and antecedently worked arsenic a first adjunct for Law Roach) arsenic good arsenic Kinsey Ranee, whose clientele includes singers Alexandra Kay and Dylan Marlowe, to study what pieces tin make nan throwback denim consciousness much current. 

In general, flare jeans are “easier to style than you think,” according to Ranee. The astir communal correction she sees group make is forcing nan inclination alternatively of applying it to their individual style. “They often hide that nan full constituent is incorporating it into who you are,” she says. “While it tin beryllium nosy to thin into a inclination and cosplay a different look, nan cardinal is to style thing caller astir what you already have.” 

Check retired nan clothing and shoes they urge styling pinch flare jeans below. Everything is disposable astatine Amazon’s manner store starting astatine conscionable $11.

Celebrity Stylist-Recommended Pieces to Wear With Flare Jeans

• Best-Seller: Cicy Bell Blazer, $59
• Day-to-Night Top: Lamissche Oversized Blouse, $30
• Timeless Style: Trendy Queen Moto Jacket, $55
• Grace Karin Crochet Knit Cardigan, $11
• PrettyGarden Faux-Suede Cropped Jacket, $46
• Rilista Slingback Kitten Heels, $37 (orig. $50)
• Mysoft Square-Toe Ankle Boots, $33 pinch Prime (orig. $39)

Cicy Bell Blazer

Ranee says if your outfit look leans heavy connected blazers aliases coats, past you tin “try flare pants pinch a long-sleeve bodysuit aliases sweater and an oversized blazer pinch boots.” She explains past it’s “new, but still you.” This Amazon best-seller is made from a wrinkle-resistant material, which will prevention you from having to aftermath up early to robust your activity outfit. One reviewer noted nan cloth “has a small agelong truthful it’s easy to move in” and that it “instantly makes immoderate outfit look polished and professional.” 

Lamissche Oversized Blouse

Flare jeans person a earthy “boho-ness,” according to Meier, which makes it easy to thin into nan artistic if you want. For her, that looks for illustration a flowy, oversized apical that you tin time off untucked for an effortless consciousness aliases tucked successful for a afloat motion to nan ’70s. This oversized blouse has loose, balloon-like sleeves that are fitted astatine nan wrist to springiness much shape. The neckline comes pinch an adjustable necktie you tin time off loose aliases tighten for a much polished look.

Trendy Queen Moto Jacket

With flare jeans, Meier says it’s champion to support “a slimmer silhouette connected [your] precocious half.” For a much classical look, she suggests pairing it pinch slim-fitting tops and adding a leather overgarment (such arsenic this celebrated style) connected top. “The added furniture tin besides thief equilibrium nan curves [that] flared pants accentuate by drafting your oculus into nan halfway statement and creating a bully continuous statement from caput to toe,” she says. 

This furniture has nan edgy look of a moto overgarment and reviewers compliment its lightweight feel, including one shopper who wrote it “goes pinch everything and keeps maine beautiful lukewarm successful nan acold and rain.” 

Grace Karin Crochet Knit Cardigan

Ranee says “in a oversea of straight-leg and low-rise” denim, flare jeans are “such a nosy measurement to adhd characteristic to your look.” The Western inclination is still “booming,” according to her, and she finds flares to beryllium a “subtle yet cool measurement to incorporated a hint of that boho-luxe look.” That tin look for illustration a brace of cowboy boots and a fringe cardigan, for illustration this crochet style. It tin enactment arsenic a lightweight furniture for nan agency aliases a connection portion that’ll dress up your achromatic T-shirt.

PrettyGarden Faux-Suede Cropped Jacket

Suede and acheronian brownish are immoderate of fall’s trendiest pieces correct now, which Ranee has besides fixed her stamp of approval. She likes to deterioration her favourite brace of flares pinch a shrunken achromatic tee, a suede jacket, and “a small pointed-toe kitten heel.” 

PrettyGarden has a faux type of this overgarment concept, pinch a casual, cropped building akin to a shacket, offering a small much warmth. One reviewer thought nan overgarment brought nan “wow factor” and wrote that it has a “wonderful trim and style for elegant activity pinch strategical stitching.” They besides applauded nan softness of nan material, uncovering it “almost amended than suede.”

Rilista Slingback Kitten Heels

It’s easy for flare jeans to hide your shoes (especially if you opt for a much melodramatic width). But, if you want your outfit to consciousness complete, Meier suggests a classical footwear design: pointed toes. Ranee personally prefers styling her flare jeans pinch a kitten bottommost for illustration this best-selling pair. These pumps person a padded footbed for a bully cushioned step. One shopper wrote that nan shoes “look very elegant but are besides comfortable to locomotion in” and recovered them wearable for “weddings, parties, aliases moreover mundane usage without getting tired quickly.” 

Mysoft Square-Toe Ankle Boots, $33 pinch Prime

If you want a much “modern” option, Meier suggests incorporating a square-toe footwear aliases bottommost into your outfit because it’ll still peek retired from nether your jeans. This style has a 3-inch bottommost that adds tallness to your outfits and features a non-slip sole to support you sturdy. One shopper praised nan heels, calling them nan “softest shoes” and added that they “wore these to an Auburn crippled and [their] feet did not wounded once.”

Shop these expert-inspired pieces while they’re still disposable astatine Amazon. And, if you request to banal up connected flare jeans, we put a fewer of our favourite picks below, ranging from subtle flares to afloat connected bell-bottoms.

LaiyiVic Bell Bottom Jeans, $30 pinch Prime

Levi's 726 High-Rise Flare Jeans

Lee Legendary Mid-Rise Flare Jeans