21 Cool Pants to Wear When You Can't Get Away With Jeans
Let’s get one thing straight: I LOVE jeans. I wear them almost every day and even enjoy lounging in them when I’m home (which I’ve recently been told is insane). However, as much as this pains me to acknowledge, there are, unfortunately, those occasional times when wherever you’re going is a no-denim zone. Think certain office environments, formal events, certain places of worship—you get where I’m going with this, right? In order to avoid an emotional breakdown of sorts whenever I have to go somewhere that jeans just won’t cut it, I’ve found that it helps to have a pair of cool stand-in pants I can style in a similar manner. In my case, that means with a T-shirt, but I’m sure it varies from denim lover to denim lover. Continue on to shop my favorite pants that are sure to (stylishly) play second fiddle to your jeans in the season ahead.
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Up next? 36 cute tops to wear with jeans (or the pants you just bought) this fall.
Since starting as an intern back in 2013, Nicole Akhtarzad Eshaghpour has held several roles here at Who What Wear, and she is currently Editor-at-Large. It was a less expected route, seeing as she was graduating from business school at USC when this all began, but it has turned out to be the best one for her. Fast-forward to 2020, and she's moved to NYC from her hometown of Beverly Hills and spends her workdays a little differently from when she was an intern starting out. Currently, she focuses on a weekly mélange of shopping content. As far as her personal style goes, she's largely drawn to classic pieces and neutral basics but will always make an exception for something colorful, printed, or bejeweled as long as it's deemed worthy enough. After all, the only thing she loves more than a good party is dressing up for one. On weekdays, she can usually be found at home eating something delicious for dinner and trying to force her husband to watch 90 Day Fiancé.
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