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It's a common look here in Dallas so most people here don't give it a second thought. (I don't personally own any boots or jeans.) Cowboy boots do flare, though, so you probably need SOME space around the ankle.
Bottom line: Boot cut jeans exist for a reason, but if you're not wearing the boots, might as well ditch the boot cut jeans.
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@nicholas:
Possible causes:
small leg openings around the ankles (makes for a tight fit to begin with)
stiff jeans (preventing draping over the boot)
no break in the jean legs (causing jeans to rise over the top of the boot)
Does it untuck at the front or the back?
This is pretty much the sort of thing that boot cut jeans were made for, though they'd likely look odd with anything other than cowboy boots. Maybe you can rubber band the upper portion of the shoe around your ankle. ;-)
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Untuck in the front. The tab in the back probably helps hold the back together. I'll get a pic at some point when I'm not wearing flannel-lined jeans and Sorels. =D
Yes, all of those are probable reasons. If they were a little longer, they would hold themselves in place better, but their length is pretty perfect right now. I don't want to wear boot cut jeans for a number of reasons, but I can just see the place for them in that regard.
If the top of the boot were a little taller or a little more narrow, I don't think I'd have this problem either.
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It depends on the amount of flare at the bottom. Pants that taper down to the knee, but go straight down to the ankle can still be classified as "boot cut". What I like about bootcut is the taper down to the knees. It flatters an athletic figure and the lack of taper from the knee down prevents the wearer from looking like a top. Or a carrot. Or Humpty Dumpty.
So, to answer your question, dudes with larger upper thighs and glutes and small calves would benefit from a bootcut. Just take it easy on the flare.
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nicholas, I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet. If your jeans are stacking (and you don't like that look), your inseams are too long for the leg openings. Get them hemmed.
Just an FYI, on a related note, if you ever get any of your pants tapered at a tailor, if they know what they're doing, they'll tell you that you should also get them taken up as well because the smaller the leg opening, the higher you need to hem them to maintain the same break.
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Chareth, I think you might be misunderstanding Nicholas's problem. I think he's referring to the way his jeans catch and bunch at the tops of his boots, rather than sliding down over them. I.e., his pants are fine, but when he sits down then stands up again, the pant leg doesn't sit back down where it should be but gets caught and bunched at the top of the boot.
Ben
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