Hate…pleated pants, shoulder pads, ripped jeans (unless worn sufficiently so the cloth is actually used) heels, boot cut jeans, ankle length jeans. Some of us live in cold places where we need our ankles covered in the cold months. Glad others don’t like tattoos. Sad for the aging skin of those young people. Don’t like excessively gaudy or long nails. Don’t folks need their hands for a functional purpose? Excess piercing.
I don’t mind ponytails on men, man buns, (ex hippie here). I like cowboy boots (being from the West’s most western town), and think young women and men and old farmhands are cute in them. Those of us with high insteps can’t insert our feet in cowboy boots, like them or not. I wish I didn’t like heels, won’t wear them, but that elegance is lovely. I like french manicures (but hear they are out of style) Capris are not the most elegant style, but they are so comfortable that I can’t imagine summers without them.
Adore- hand crafted clothes and ethnic fabric, chambray shirts, which seem to be back in style, peasant blouses. Smart wool socks and LL Bean boots. Scarves of all sorts. Skinny jeans, though don’t have the figure for them, down vests, especially some of the recent pretty designs.
Some of the really tight maternity clothes that women wear these days look awful. I saw a young mom to be the other day from behind and thought to myself…“if she could see how she looks from behind in that tight top and leggings she would not be wearing that.” But then again a lot of younger women don’t wear anything but this super tight stuff that looks so uncomfortable to me.
Yea, I am glad that folks are proud of their bodies during pregnancies (though I wasn’t all that thrilled with mine, to be honest). I don’t understand why we should all see every bulge and why skintight attire to show every detail of baby moving is “a good look.”
I love ankle pants because my legs are disproportionately short (compared to my torso) and ankle length pants for normal-sized people are the proper length for me.
I also like wide leg pants. I’m hippy and my calves have always been big. At my skinniest, I’ve not been able to wear knee high boots. Skinny pants and jeans don’t fit and look hideous. Wide legs give me room to move.
Misc likes: moderately-high heels, tights, scarves of all kinds, all sizes of handbags and totes that fit with my size as well as with what I’m wearing, short boots, floaty sweaters.
I wish the men’s suits that look too small/shrunken would go away. Same with too-small hats, Baseball caps in restaurants, women’s tapered pants, 3/4 sleeve sweaters and dress shirts, clothing that is intentionally designed to be worn too tight.
I like well-fitted pleated pants. Put a sharp crease in those pleats, let them lie flat, and I think the the vintage 40s look is great. And unlike those low-slung pants, pants that sit at the natural waistline don’t fall down.
Yes! My D3 has glorious lashes, long and thick. Rude boys will ask her if they’re real. She’ll want to offer to let them pull them and then will think, no, they’re not pulling my eyelashes! Crazy stuff.
Even worse, those duck lips. Lip plumper (which seems to stimulate an allergic reaction), lining outside your lips to make them look bigger, injections, and the duck lip pose - all have to go. Bigger isn’t always better! Think of those sexy thin lips that Meg Ryan has.
Long, straight hair is another fashion I’ll be glad to see over. Yawn. Long hair is pretty, but long, straight hair on every young woman, even those who have gorgeous curls or waves, is silly.
Wait… I finally decide to start wearing my straighter-than-straight hair short and the hair style I’ve had for my entire life finally comes into style?
Not saying it is not easy (I do not have any interest in leather or fur products), but that there seem to be many people who really like leather products.
I have a full length fur bought in the 80s. What am I supposed to do with it? It doesn’t fit my lifestyle. But my H secretly took on another job during med school to buy it for me as a surprise and it would hurt his feelings to sell it.
I wear capris during the summer even though I have long waist / shorter legs precisely because I don’t to go get them hemmed like I do most regular length pants.
I’ve decided as I get older that I’m better off wearing the classic jewelry all the time versus mixing in costume jewelry. I’ve dumped most of it. 90% of the time I’m just wearing diamond studs, a diamond solitaire drop with sentimental value and my wedding band. Goes with everything! I realized that a lot of the costume jewelry was for traveling internationally on business where I didn’t want to worry about something being lost or stolen.
I rarely wear heels - just doesn’t fit my lifestyle - but I don’t get all the moaning how uncomfortable they are. I get not dashing through airports or being on your feet all day long, but for something like going out to dinner where you put them on and the only walking you are doing is from a car to a restaurant or theater - I don’t find them uncomfortable at all. Maybe less practical because you can’t suddenly break into a run if you needed to.
I don’t care for the new trend of having one fingernail painted differently from the others and I don’t care for nail art. I do Essie Ballet Slippers pretty much year round, goes with everything. I don’t like French manicures unless the white is very subtle but many look like you dipped your finger in White Out.
I have a thing for metallic loafers and in general shoes in metal colors (gold, pewter, silver) to add a pop of color to an all black outfit. I realized this when organizing my shoes by color.
Cghmom - tretorns are still around. I have a pair bought a few years ago. I used to sell athletic shoes in high school / college and I loved them. Very preppy, which is an aesthetic I often like.
“Not saying it is not easy (I do not have any interest in leather or fur products), but that there seem to be many people who really like leather products.”
Well, for good reason. Leather outperforms man-made materials on so many dimensions – look, feel, ability to keep your feet cool vs sweaty (in shoes), etc. Stella McCartney is famously not a user of leather in her products - but I’ll be darned to pay those high prices for non-leather.
I can’t wear high heels even for 15 minutes. They kill my feet and legs.
I almost always do one fingernail a different color and I usually have colored tips only (some crazy bright color) and clear gel for the rest of the nail. It lasts longer.
I hate man buns. Cowboy boots are a staple of my wardrobe.