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Villarreal: He was doing the boot-cut before people were doing the boot-cut, right?

And they were saying that basically that little denim insert that Suze Rotolo put into Bob’s jeans was kind of the first boot-cut jean, in a way, and it would definitely be the precursor to the flare, the Summer of Love, down the line in the ’60s.

They were a form of trend forecasting, no different from putting a finger to the wind and assessing whether slim-fit or boot-cut jeans will be “in” this season.

On the day we met, those jeans were medium-wash and boot-cut, matched with black boots and a black leather trench coat over a brown leather vest and a white button-down blouse for an overall steampunk vibe — a sartorial hint, maybe, at the Victorian fashion of the HBO drama “The Gilded Age,” if not quite the studied sensibilities of her character in the series, Marian Brook.

Next, she pulled out a cobalt blue one-shouldered tunic top with black color-blocking — overlong, worn with boot-cut jeans and chunky necklaces.