There are trends that compel us to add a completely new garment to the wardrobe and others that simply make what we already have look different. We are talking about cuffed jeans. Jeans whose hem is turned outward. The difference is that this season the turn-up is no longer discreet and takes on XXL proportions.
The detail has caught our attention among the looks seen these days around the Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2027, where denim is having a lot more prominence than one would expect. In street style images there are baggy jeans, wide silhouettes, and designs in different washes, but also numerous trousers whose hem is gathered by a wide and perfectly visible turn-up.
What exactly are cuffed jeans
The simplest translation would be jeans with the turned-up hem, although the models currently of interest have little to do with those narrow turn-ups we used years ago to show the ankle.
The 2026 version is more decisive. It usually starts from straight-cut, relaxed, or wide leg jeans and ends in a single wide turn-up, sometimes several centimeters, that leaves the reverse side of the denim visible. The contrast is particularly pronounced in indigo or dark-wash designs.
Vaqueros con bajo con vuelta.
This isn’t a trend that emerged from nowhere. In recent seasons it had appeared on runways as well as in street style. Givenchy, Isabel Marant or Khaite have recently experimented with different versions of folded denim, and specialist brands have begun incorporating it into their collections.
But it now seems to be finding a much easier formula to translate into everyday life. What is clear is that the autumn 2026 version is cleaner and more deliberate, with a single well-defined turn-up rather than hems rolled up in a seemingly casual way.
Paris confirms the trend of XXL-turn jeans
What’s interesting about Parisian street style is also how they are being styled. Instead of turning them into excessively casual jeans, many attendees have paired them with much more sophisticated pieces.
Blazers, shirts, leather jackets, cardigans or structured coats help balance the lower volume and give the look that effortless-yet-polished edge that denim often warrants.
Vaqueros cuffed en el street style de Paris.
Otro detalle importante es que las vueltas permiten dejar completamente visible el calzado, y en París se han combinado tanto con mocasines como con zapatos de tacón de punta fina.
Ahí está probablemente parte de su atractivo para el otoño. Unos vaqueros amplios que normalmente caerían sobre el zapato se transforman con un solo gesto y conceden mucho más protagonismo a bailarinas, mocasines, botines o zapatos de tacón.
The easiest way to wear them this autumn
No hace falta, además, comprar necesariamente unos jeans diseñados así. Si tenemos unos vaqueros rectos o anchos ligeramente largos, podemos probar a hacer una única vuelta grande y limpia, procurando que quede prácticamente a la misma altura en ambas piernas.
Para que el resultado se parezca al que estamos viendo en París, funciona especialmente bien evitar demasiados elementos llamativos en el resto del estilismo. Unos cuffed jeans, una camisa blanca, una americana amplia y unos mocasines pueden ser suficientes. También admiten una chaqueta de cuero y bailarinas para conseguir un resultado algo más relajado.
Unos looks con pantalones cargo y vaqueros cuffed.
Puede que sea solo un pequeño detalle, pero ahí reside precisamente su gracia: los cuffed jeans consiguen actualizar los vaqueros de siempre sin cambiar realmente de vaqueros. Y París acaba de recordarnos que, algunas temporadas, basta con doblar el bajo para que todo el look parezca nuevo.
