After a Hiatus, It's Officially Cool to Wear This "Dated" Jeans Trend With Heels Again

You were definitely wearing these ten years ago.

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Anne Hathaway in NYC wearing a black blazer, frayed-hem jeans, black pumps, and a Hermès bag
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We all know how quickly denim trends come and go, but sometimes when they're "gone", they're gone for quite some time. That's indeed the case with the latest denim trend to make a clear comeback. The trend I'm referring to is frayed-hem jeans. We've been seeing them all over Instagram this year, and we saw them en masse on the stylish attendees of the various fashion months. And now, we're seeing them on celebrities such as Anne Hathaway, who has been very busy promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2.

After a lengthy frayed-hem hiatus in which people have been wearing finished-hem jeans almost exclusively, the former was due for a comeback. I, for one, went from having a closet filled with them approximately ten years ago to having a closet devoid of them more recently. But I recently acquired a frayed-hem pair of Reformation jeans, and I'm enjoying the cool, relaxed touch that they add to my outfits. I especially like wearing them with heels, as the contrast is quite chic. Just take a look at Hathaway's outfit for evidence. She paired a cropped black blazer and wide-leg frayed-hem jeans with a pair of elegant pointed-toe pumps, and the resulting look is very much worthy of copying.

Keep scrolling to see Hathaway's chic frayed-hem-jeans-and-heels outfit for yourself and to shop a handful of jeans that'd be an excellent addition to your collection of finished-hem jeans.

Anne Hathaway's Frayed-Jeans Outfit

Anne Hathaway in NYC wearing a black blazer, frayed-hem jeans, black pumps, and a Hermès bag

(Image credit: Aeon/GC Images/Getty Images)

Anne Hathaway in NYC wearing a black blazer, frayed-hem jeans, black pumps, and a Hermès bag

(Image credit: Aeon/GC Images/Getty Images)

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Allyson Payer
Allyson Payer
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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.