Leather pencil skirt - splurge on it or is it just a passing trend?

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I have a fake leather pencil skirt that I wear and love but have been considering, maybe for the last year or so, buying the real thing (currently really keen on one from Reiss). It's very expensive though and I would hate for it to be out of fashion by next year .... mind you, I didnt buy one last year as I was worried the same thing and yet they seem as popular as ever. What does everyone think? Waste of money or will I wear it for years and years to come?

My gut reaction was no. Am surprised at the level of responses saying otherwise though...

Just seen you have and love a fake. In that case, providing your children won't starve, try a real one!

I love that green one that MM wore the other month. I’d get a pencil skirt style, that’s a classic.

I would add that when these things come back, there is often a significant change that marks out the iterations from different eras.

I think that used to be true and I said in my first post that the op might need to find someone who could give it a tweak. However I don't think it's the case nearly so often these days as most designers seem to think we have the memory of goldfish. I'm wearing some 80s pleated trousers today; all I've done is turn up the hems and they look bang on.

Fair point about leather though as it's harder to alter and also, as you say, the technology has changed (although personally I'm not a fan of 'butter soft' stuff. I like my leather old school - the kind that looks better with every passing year.)

Surely Flo those are from a few iterations previous rather than the last iteration?

I’m not sure what you mean?

Sorry, I'm being dense. You mean trouser trends have been round the block a few times since the 80s? Yes - my point was that if you wait long enough most things do come around again.

And sometimes you don't have to wait that long. My 'girlfriend' jeans from last year are pretty much identical in shape to the skinnies I bought in the early noughties. Or I bought a second hand Miu Miu tweed skirt in the spring that I'm guessing dates from that Marc Jacobs 'sexy secretary' (his words not mine) era. Fashion wise, it's spot on again this season. Or there are my knee boots that I hadn't worn for years but are back in service. Or wrap dresses - not looked closely but they don't seem any different either.

Not every time - I haven't reverted to my old nineties/noughties wide legs as they're more an extreme flare plus insanely low waisted. But basically I'm sceptical of the idea that nothing comes back the same. I'd say more often than not, there are few changes that a competent seamstress can't make or it's the things you wear it with that are different, although, as Tinsel points out, sometimes technology scuppers everything and there's no predicting that.