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Never have I heard as many good things aboutGap jeansas I have in the past few months. (As our lead editor,Lauren Levy, said in February:Welcome to the Gapaissance.) Not only does the mall brand make nearly every style of jean you can think of — from a “horseshoe” to a straight leg — they’re often on sale. But now is an especially good time to get yourself a pair, Strategist readers: You can get an exclusive additional 15 percent off with code STRAT15. The code works on any full-price jeans andon-sale jeans included in Gap’s Labor Day Event(except washes already marked as being an extra 50 percent off at checkout). The discount expires this Sunday, so you know what to do. In the meantime, I rounded up a few jeans (some of which we’ve written about) that are worth getting:
Updated on August 31, 2025:
We checked stock and confirmed our exclusive sale-on-sale pricing for all the jeans below.
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“It’s tough to find a jean that approximates a true vintage style well,” says our contributorErika Veurink. But the High-Rise ’90s Straight “gets as close to the real (vintage) thing as possible” (it helps that Gap is “where the vintage pair you’re really hoping to find might have originated” anyway).
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The slimmer silhouette of the High-Rise ’90s Straight reminds me ofReformation’s Cynthia(which, for comparison’s sake, is $178 full-price).
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As seen in a Mya GelberStrategist Huntis the High Rise ‘90s Loose. “The wash of these jeans was exactly what I was looking for, and they were long enough to cuff,” Gelber says. Meanwhile, Levy wore them so much that a massive hole ripped through the knee.
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There’s the low-rise you can try, too.
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In our first-ever installment of our “I Tried All The …” series, our newsletter editorAshley Wolfgangwent to Gap. She believes these to be the perfect flares: “They hit me in all the right places from the waist, butt, and through the thigh and knee.”
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“Very Lizzie McGuire,” according toWolfgang.
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“The name suggests a bow-legged cowboy dueling stance — it brings to mind that photo ofJohn Lennon walking like thator David Bowie inthose pants,” says writer Sable Yong of theHigh-Rise UltraSoft Horseshoe. “However, the overall effect … is a modest one with leisurely volume.“
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The same “slightly more exaggerated parentheses shape than the usual barrel leg” (as Yong calls the Horseshoe), but in a mid-rise instead of a high-rise.
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It’s thehorseshoe’s cousin, barrel-leg.
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Like the curvy styles atMadewell, Gap’s offer more room through the hips and thighs to lessen waist-gapping.
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The baggiest of jeans need to be low-slung for the best fit, from experience.
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Based on Gap’s archival Long and Lean fit (which you might’ve worn before).
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