Trends you wish would make a comeback

[MiamiWindMachine]

What fashions or other beauty trends would you love to see come around again?

Mine would be short hair for young women. I feel like young women only have short hair if it’s quite an extreme “statement” look (Pink, Wrecking Ball era Miley Cyrus etc.). Whereas I used to love those short, very layered haircuts (as modelled by Kerry Bishop of Neighbours fame in the picture). I could never have had that style myself as I have hair like Crystal Tipps, but I think the likes of Madonna, Demi Moore, Sheena Easton, Marie Friedriksen etc. looked stunning with it.

Any other votes for lost trends?

I think actual punk fashion would just look as jaded as any other revival, but that punk DIY spirit and creativity - absolutely yes please. Plus no-one cared then whether something was flattering, which would be a bonus in my book.

Bootcut jeans. I'm slender but have big calves so I look disgusting in skinnies but I hate those wide leg dragging-on-the-floor type jeans. I just want good quality bootcut ones!

I remember when she got bitten by a redback spider!

'Older women' 🤣🤣🤣

Do you mean the ones that were wearing Pixie boots in the 80s?! 🤣🤣🤣

Crafting is popular, but it's still niche, whereas DIY fashion was mainstream until recently. It was just normal to run up a skirt or cushion cover, or customise things—my friends and I used to do it as teens in the 90s all the time. I remember one friend making an amazing patchwork denim maxi skirt out of a load of old jeans.

Same goes for fancy dress. A fancy dress party was an opportunity to be creative, and it was always expected that you made the costume. I used to spend ages making costumes, and had a box full of fabrics and hand-me-down bits and pieces. Now people buy off-the-shelf tat which ends up in landfill straight after the party.

Little Black Dresses

I bought a pair about 3 weeks ago in Benetton.

I know what you mean. "Bootcut" jeans are everywhere at the moment, except they're not bootcut jeans, or not how they used to be anyway. They are too long, too wide and flared.

I’m big of boob and what you said plus dropped shoulders are an immediate no.

I’d like the return of dresses you can wear a bra under (looking at you Zara).

Good point @StMarieforme

Absolutely this. I am quite tall and even when I was younger and thinner I didn't like having my midriff on show. Nowadays I find it impossible to find T shirt and jumpers that don't reveal my belly if I so much as move my arms. I'm sure this wasn't the case a few decades ago. I tend to resort to wearing much longer tunic tops but I'm not sure they suit me and all I really want is a jumper that actually covers my top half.

I agree with pp to looking natural and creativity in clothes. I think as a teenager in the 80s, we just couldn't get hold of stuff we wanted or had seen on tv, magazines etc so we would have to make it. A case in point would be doc martens that people customised by painting, adding ribbons etc for laces, but now you can buy in every style imaginable. I don't mean replicating 80s style, either, but the spirit of creativity involved.

Tailoring - especially coats and jackets.
skirts and dresses without frills, flounces, lace.
Fitted clothes.
proper flat waistbands; none of this elasticated shit.
skinny jeans
Aztec print (I know, I know)
Batik print
Paisley print

Exactly! I mean bootcut that are more of a straight leg but just very slightly wider at calf/hem and a fraction narrower at lower thigh. The new ones look more like flares.

Yes. I agree. I saw a woman out walking the other day and her face shocked me. Her lips were enormous and bright pink and her cheeks were like hamsters.

I'd like to see more variety in the clothes teenagers and young people wear.

I'm only mid 30s but when I was a teen there seemed to be much more creativity and individual style. You would at least have some kids that liked the grunge look, emos, goths, preppy, those that wore sportswear, funky dyed hair, piercings etc. Teenagers nowadays just seem to be in a sea of North Face jackets, grey joggers and the boys all have Fluffy Edgar haircuts with the girls all having long, straight hair. It's like a uniform and there doesn't seem to be the individuality there used to be.

Yes!
I loved that in the 90's. A good club look.

Skinnies are BACK. So you are at the forefront of fashion ✔️

@PeggyMitchellsCameo Wahey! First time for everything.

Long skirts like we had in the 90s!
1980s sweatshirt dresses with ski pants
Hats
80s big hair because my hair looks like that in it's natural state!

Fitted shoulders /sleeves in tops, I'm so sick of everything being drop shoulders, makes tops hang like shite and it's only done because it's cheaper to manufacture

I’ve had short hair forever and have never been assumed to be trans! Do you mean the weirdos who harass less feminine presenting women in bathrooms would assume that?

@crackofdoom I got a ballet cardigan in the spring for &other stories. It does go well with wide leg jeans. Worth a look to see if they have them in still, or else eBay.

I remember Kerry Bishop, a veggie, arguing with Gail because the latter wanted to sell kangaroo skin wallets in her shop. As it happens, the Gail actor was a wildlife/animal welfare campaigner IRL. Odd, the things you remember!

Frosted lipstick suits me for some reason. I’d like to be able to wear it again without looking like a throwback!