Typically a light blue denim shade with a tapered leg, mom jeans are considered an icon of '80s fashion. As their name suggests, they were named after the women who wore them, and teens at the time ...

and wonderfully reassuring in an era of floor-pooling wide-legs and low-slung baggy jeans – not to mention the skinny and its often-lamented return. If the skinny jean is a frenemy, the mom jean ...