Forget the Square Toes: Cool British Girls Are Opting for These Classic Boots With Jeans Instead
Daisy Edgar-Jones is the quintessential cool British girl. Her perfect bangs always just fall so well on her face, and her outfits have a similar effortlessness to them. She slinks around in them on the streets of London, looking like she just threw them on. But in reality, Edgar-Jones just has that kind of intention and taste that can't be taught. She knows what works for her and she sticks to it.
The actress also has a way of making us want the simplest of items. Just look at her most recent outfit: a pair of oval sunglasses, a trench coat belted just above the waist, deep blue straight-leg jeans, and a pair of black pointed ankle boots.
The coat-and-boot combo is quietly becoming a go-to for cool women in London everywhere it seems, as we noted it as the most standout trend from this season's street style. Square-toe boots have been dominating, so it feels surprising to see pointed tips back on the rise. It makes sense, though, considering heels are also making a major comeback in 2026. Plus, if Edgar-Jones says it's cool, then it's cool. No other evidence needed.
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Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.