Kendall Jenner woke up this weekend and, according to the tabloids, set out on a “steamy summer outing” (she parked her Toyota Land Cruiser in a car park) to show Bad Bunny (the ex she’s reportedly on good terms with) “what he was missing” (a high-cut vest, baggy jeans and cowboy boots). I respect the need to truss up a regular stroll as breaking news, so here’s an alternative angle:

That Jenner’s decision to tuck straight-legged denim into Western boots is a future trend in the making–and a welcome alternative, perhaps, to the malign rule of the phalangeal flip-flop. I don’t think I’ve seen a young, fashionable celebrity do this with real, 2003 levels of conviction, since Kate Moss was photographed trotting around West London with skinnies tucked into Vivienne Westwood knee-highs.

Kendall Jenner in Los Angeles.

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British Vogue’s senior contributing fashion features editor, Julia Hobbs, recently fished out an old pair of Ghesquière-era Louis Vuitton boots to wear with attenuated Levi’s for New York Fashion Week. “I’m living by my own mantra that skinny jeans walked so jeans in boots could run,” she said. “What started as a tongue-in-cheek take on 2010s ‘date-night dressing’ has become my everyday uniform.”

And wasn’t it Kate Moss who just last week starred in a self-styled campaign for Self-Portrait, shot paparazzi-style by Johnny Dufort, wearing this exact combination of pieces as she parked her own car? Perhaps, then, Kendall Jenner’s so-called “steamy summer outing” wasn’t so much about showing Bad Bunny “what he was missing,” but fashion culture at large.