Autumn Must Have Number 4 - Great Jeans

The uniform of the school gate mum at least a few days a week, a great pair of jeans will make you look and feel fabulous. Apart from occasional forays into floral and coloured jeans, I mostly wear dark denim as it flatters all figures and shapes and matches virtually everything in my wardrobe.

H&M Skinny - £9.99

Boden Bootcut - £49

The skinny/bootcut decision is a personal taste one, though I do urge you to try both if you don't already. I get emails frequently from people who tell me they feel they can't wear skinny jeans. Now we're coming into Winter, grab a pair for £9.99 in H&M and pop your long boots over them and you'll wonder why you didn't do it years ago. And you'll be showing off your lovely long boots too!
If you've already got the skinny and bootcut going on, how about some more casual rolled up jeans? Again keeping the colour on the darker side of blue..

Oasis - £48

Or if you want something a little looser than a skinny but more fitted than a bootcut, Gap gets my vote for the best straight jeans:

Gap Real Straight Jeans - £44.95

My three rules about buying denim - Buy Dark, Tight & Long. You should be beating yourself into your jeans as they slacken with time (just like the rest of us). Make sure they are a little longer than you want as they shorten with washing and stick to darker shades. 
But that's as much as I know, so I now pass you over to Queen of Jeans & Denim Guru, Donna Ida. Click on the image below to access Donna's denim clinic where you can click on your body shape and watch a video of which jean shapes will best suit you...hope you enjoy!

Thanks to everyone who has sent a School Gate Style photo to me - loving them all! If you want to be in the draw for a pampering prize, send me a picture of you on the school run to schoolgatestyle@yahoo.co.uk. See you tomorrow for the 5th and last Autumn Must Have x