6 Autumn Trends That Will Make Basic Jeans Look Incredibly Stylish

If there’s one item that never leaves my wardrobe, no matter the season, it’s a good pair of jeans. They’re the anchor of so many outfits and the piece I come back to when I want to try something new-season or trend-led. I always approach anything that fits into the latter category with trepidation—I spent some of my formative years in fashion chasing trends thinking they’d make me look more stylish, and I know firsthand that doesn’t always end up being the result. That said, when I do see a trend I’m interested in, I know that, with a trusty pair of jeans, it has the potential to slot right into my capsule wardrobe rotation.

That brings us to autumn. Autumn, in my opinion, is the best time for trying new jeans looks—it’s the season of layering, texture, and polish, which gives jeans a whole new life beyond their warm-weather uniform of white T-shirts and suede sandals. Autumn is when jeans come into their own, be it an ecru, camel, indigo or faded black pair.