If you could bring anything back in to fashion, what would it be?

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I'd love it if headscarves came back, like the Queen wears. My late mum had beautiful ones. No bad hair days and so much more elegant than a hat

You?

Half these things are in fashion?

Flares, rara/puffball skirts/mini skirts, low rise jeans, leopard print, ballet flats. Even bloody corsets have been in fashion for the last couple of years

Some of these have had time to have a whole renaissance and go back out of fashion

@meowzeer sorry I meant on trend rather than fashionable iykwim I know there are bits about but I remember when it was everywhere

yyy to flares, flat ballet shoes and platforms with block heels.
oh, and thin eyebrows!

Those tiny stars that you could stick on your face in the 90s - I still have some and will wear them one day but I don't want to waste them because there's only a few left!

Tops and skirts with little mirrors in them

1950s petticoated skirts that flare out

I had a full length cloak in the 70's just like the one in the Scottish Widows ad. I loved it but a wet cloak is a miserable thing - and I live in Wales where it rains a lot. I did wear it when I worked the door ar a nighclub and it was great - like having me own blanket with me

That is how I always dress- although hats only in winter. I don't own jeans, trainers, t shirts. I wouldn't be seen dead in the Mumsnet staple of "jeans and a nice top"

I'm really puzzled by a lot of what is on this thread- especially the idea that ballet flats are no longer capable of being worn.

Thank you. The black velvet one is Wallis, the black wool ones are Laura Ashley and Hemyca and the Jane Austen is Cabbages and Roses.

Most of these are in fashion ! I'd like circle skirts to come back in. Around 2003-2004 I wore them all the time, in the style of Natasha Bedingfield with a vest top and flip flops.

Also tunics/short dresses worn with leggings. Comfortable and flattering.

In-seam pockets, not statement ones.
And crisp white cotton smocks with Greek style embroidery. I think they’ve gone out of fashion now.
Cotton jumpers like I used to wear in the 80s.

There are SO many things ... it's hard to choose. It would be wonderful if the shops were full of 1920s dresses. (Weirdly, while I was typing that, an email arrived from Frock Me! vintage fairs, about their latest event.)

Most of the items mentioned in this thread is already back on fashion; platforms, flares, ballet flats and mini skirts.

Fashion is so fast paced now, I think you can wear anything and get away with it because it will be in fashion and then out again, as long as you can pull it off.

Lace tights. They didn't ladder as you look at them. I had a white pair with butterflies on. I used to wear them with a blue and white striped dress, white brogues and white lace gloves. One of my all time favourite outfits.

I love my short cloaks in the winter and statement necklaces (to draw attention away from my jawline). I did love lace tights and all sorts of interesting hosiery in my younger days, would be too scratchy now due to my sensory issues 😞

What I did love in the 90s were those long swishy sleeveless cover-ups that tied at the front. Heavier than beach wear material, often trimmed with faux fur. Can't remember if they had a name as such, but I'd love some now. Back in the day they'd be worn with a tight bodysuit, leggings and big boots. Now I'd wear over long boxy tops and wide leg trousers, or a basic midi dress 😊

Thanks Kimiko I shall have a look! Cabbages and Roses and Laura Ashley might well have that sort of thing regularly, I never think of looking there. Never heard of Hemyca I will take a look.

Short hair and natural wavy/ curley hair.
Mullets, they are actually very practical.
Combats and women's clothes with pockets in general.
Flares.
Platforms.
Balaclavas- very practical for winter.
I liked the mid noughties boho look of sienna miller.
Bianca style 90s puffa jackets
Pencil skirts, very flattering
A line dresses
Dresses over jeans.
Ankle socks over tights - I appreciate feeling warm!
Tartan
Natural eyebrows
Pale skin (ie not fake tan)
Real lashes
Blue and green eyeshadow- all the 80s make up colours
Thin lips
Real nails
Frizzy hair

Life would be so easy and cheap with all these changes!

Even if anything isn't in fashion you can still wear it. Sub groups exist. There's loads of different current trends out there . I think for the first time in history everyone is dressing very differently to each other. Everyone wants to be unique.

Old age.

Nail transfers that you soaked of the backing paper in water and slid on to your nails.
I had a lovely set of gold swallows when I was in my teens and kept saving them for some special event (I dunno - the Oscars, maybe). When I eventually decided I might as well use them, I couldn't find them of course.
The folly of saving things for "best" 🙄

"off" not "of"

@felulageller "Dresses over jeans."

This (along with skirts over jeans) is actually an up and coming trend.

I do have to question all of the posters who are saying things they'd like to see come back in fashion like platforms, mini skirts, platform boots, flared jeans, low rise jeans etc. It seems you didn't know these things had already come back into fashion again and were on trend which begs me to question if you'd even be wearing them decades later now that they are in fashion again. I don't mean to be rude, but it seems like you may not be the type who keeps up with or cares about fashion, so I do wonder if you'd even feel comfortable investing in some of these trends you're wishing would come back (which actually have).

Anything which discourages young women from 'enhancing' their bodies by cosmetic surgery, fake teeth, fake arses, fake huge tits and huge lips filled with god knows what.

Bring back au natural, the money they make out of young people only to have problems in later life which they can't even comprehend that they will have.

Long white Victorian style nightdresses. In the late 80s I bought several from Next and Laura Ashley. I'd love to be able to still get them easily (althought I'd probably be more of a Mad Woman in the attic in them now rather than an ethereal Cathy...)
Re natural makeup and natural brows, they are always fashionable - only a minority seem to go for the Instagrammable hideous laminated brows, heavy makeup and daft over drawn overly pumped up lips.

Even if anything isn't in fashion you can still wear it.

That is a relief!

Boot cuts and flares are in fashion as are combats! I do live in London though, maybe no one else is wearing them!