Diversify Your Denim in the New Year: Top Jean Styles to Consider in 2025

Your style shifts from season to season. During the warmer months, you may have reached for the breezier tops, lighter denim, and white sneakers or strappy sandals. Going into winter, you might set out layered tops, darker denim, and boots.

It’s natural. Style changes from season to season and year to year. Some changes might only be subtle, but others can make a splash. Right now—and going into the new year—you might have your mind set on making that splash. 

In other words, you want to update your look going into 2025, and that includes exploring the latest denim trends. One of the great things about denim is how accessible it is, even as styles change from one season—or year—to the next. Whether you wear plus, missy, or petite jeans, you can find options that are both current and speak to your style. As you set your New Year’s “denim resolutions,” here are a few looks to consider now and in the coming year—centered squarely on denim. 

Start Setting Your Denim Resolutions During the Holidays

The holiday season can be a wonderful time to explore the latest denim looks. Between all the family and friend gatherings, work parties, and other seasonal events, you can play with new looks centered around denim in all kinds of settings.

Casual Family Gatherings

You can explore everything from casual to elevated looks. For instance, casual holiday family gatherings are very much in. However, unlike in recent years, it’s not too casual (that is to say, we’re not going all out with the PJs or sweats). 

In other words, you can build an outfit around denim that has a relaxed look with a dash of sophistication. Call it dressing up the basics. Straight leg black denim paired with a richly colored, oversized sweater, complete with fresh sneakers can hit the mark of comfort and style.

After-Hours Office Party

If you’re scouring your wardrobe for the ideal look for an after-hours office party, straight leg black denim once again can fit right in (it’s versatile!). However, you can opt for a sleeker top. Think woven button-down paired with a single-button blazer. Your go-to booties can complete the ensemble. For an alternate look that’s more than office-ready, make the most of the popular barrel leg silhouette with a pair of relaxed barrel leg trousers. Whether you pair them with a matching blazer or a dark sweater, these bottoms are a great way to make a statement.

Is a hangout with friends next on your holiday tour? Thankfully, these outfits are so stylish and comfortable that they’ll easily transition to any type of gathering.

New Year, New You—New Denim 

As versatile as straight leg black denim can be, it’s one of many options to consider going into the new year. If you want to add more flair to your look while staying current, high rise flare jeans can be another 

Flares for Days

Flare jeans have been having a moment—a moment that’s turned into something even bigger. If you don’t currently have high rise flare jeans in your wardrobe, 2025 is your year. You can find flares on plus, missy, and petite jeans with shorter inseams. They’re accessible and available in the season’s top denim colors, including washed black and classic indigo. 

Make It an Outfit

Flare jeans can work with all kinds of tops and shoes. In the winter months, these jeans can come together with a V-neck knit top layered with a cropped or full-length knit coat. As for your shoes? When you go out, ankle booties can once again bring this look together. Of course, you can elevate the ensemble with flats or heels, too. 

Prep for the New Year in Style

Have you been curious about the preppy style that’s gained a lot of traction over the past several months? It’s carrying over into 2025—and despite the preppy look traditionally being dominated by chinos and slacks, it’s a look you can achieve with denim. 

Exude Preppy Style in Denim

Indigo and grey mid rise straight leg or slim straight leg jeans can easily be the core of your preppy ensemble. You can also grab a pair of boot cuts—especially if you’ll be finishing off the look with your favorite pair of suede or leather boots. If you want a more traditional outfit, light denim colors evocative of khaki can be an option, too. While we’re focused on denim, you can round out your wardrobe and exude a preppy look with some tan wide leg trousers that fit just right. 

Add Some Layers

The preppy look can come down to how you dress up your denim. Woven collared button-downs can be ideal tops, especially as an untucked base layer. Embrace the preppy style’s love of layers by adding on a cable-knit sweater or cardigan featuring heavier weaves and textures. Darker colors like steely greys, forest greens, and burgundy reds can play beautifully with dark and khaki-inspired denim. 

Top It Off

Don’t forget the blazer. While sweaters and cardigans paired with slim straight leg jeans can leave you with a slightly more relaxed preppy vibe, blazers can take your look up several notches. Dark blazers in black, grey, or navy are ideal shades. 

From the New Year to the Rest of the Year 

Once the hype of the holidays is over and you’ve settled into the new year, the resolution to diversify your denim doesn’t end. Like any resolution, it’s something that can continue for as long as you want it to. This is an exploration of denim, after all. 

Denim on Denim

While we’ve talked about pairing denim with blazers and ankle booties, what about pairing your jeans with denim jackets and knee-high riding boots? Going into 2025, layering denim with more denim is very much in vogue. 

This is the kind of look that can start with skinny jeans. Skinny jeans are making a triumphant return in 2025. If you wear plus, missy, or petite jeans, you can find phenomenally designed skinny jeans. Why skinny? Well, they pair exceptionally well with knee-high boots! 

These Boots Are Made for Denim

Skinny jeans in faded denim styles pair well with pretty much any shoe or boot, but for early 2025, it’s all about the knee-high riding-style boot—at least until spring rolls around. Then, it’s all about the sneakers.

Denim Up Top

As for tops? More denim. Denim jackets can pair wonderfully with skinny jeans and boots. You can also mix and match colors. Black denim with a faded indigo jacket? It works. Indigo jeans with a light blue faded denim jacket? It also works.

You can mix and match to your heart’s content. That’s what diversifying your denim is all about. It’s not just about having multiple pairs of jeans in different styles. It’s about mixing and matching those jeans with different tops and footwear to find the looks you love most. 

About Wit & Wisdom

Your clothing is a part of who you are. Your style tells a story—and Wit & Wisdom helps you tell that story. Every piece across Wit & Wisdom’s collections is intentionally crafted, from their petite jeans with shorter inseams to their missy boot cuts to their plus size flares—and everything in between. And while Wit & Wisdom knows denim, they also know tops. If you’re searching for the ideal blouse, jacket, or sweater to pair with your jeans, they have options for any occasion, from casual weekend gatherings to professional workdays. Wit & Wisdom takes a more curated approach to how they design their pieces. They strive for a more tailored look so you can put together an outfit that is truly yours. With their Contour Shape Technology, an integral part of their denim collections, you can effortlessly contour your silhouette. Diversify your denim with Wit & Wisdom at https://www.witandwisdomclothing.com/