"pegged" jeans... you pulled the leg of your jeans super-tight and cuffed them, effectively cutting off the circulation to your feet.

I wouldn't do that again.

Stirrup pants. Especially when the went through the laundry and shrunk the tiniest of bits, making them too small, so when you wear them, the crotch is lower than it should be.

I wouldn't wear those again.

The "poof", which was what you called the front of your hair in the 80's. You remember, gravity-defying bangs? Poofed, unless you turned sideways, and then it was like this thin line of hair..weird... I can remember my BFF senior year spraying her hair with AquaNet as she held a curling iron in it... there's nothing quite so nostalgic as the snap-crackle of burning hair.

Yeah, that's the rule I went by when bell-bottoms (read: flare-legged jeans) came back. Plus, y'know, I have a mirror, and I'm already short & dumpy enough without getting my jeans to emphasize that.

No big bows on the butt or the hip or anywhere else; didn't like 'em the first time around and only wore them when the dress was utterly perfect otherwise.

If, for some bizarre unexplained reason, I were EVER to spawn again, I wouldn't wear anything resembling a maternity tent. (Wouldn't you know cute styles came along about two years after I had my youngest?)

As far as fashions that repeat-- pretty much anything hourglass. If it's got that 1950s or early 60s silhouette, (especially the close-fitting sheath dresses) I am SO there. I'll wear it whether it's "in fashion" or not.

I'd forgotten peg leg jeans! As a girl with hips, those weren't real flattering on me. Or those ones with the enormous pleats in front. I looked like I was wearing clown pants. I am nostalgic for my old button-fly Levis, however. I'm also nostalgic for the time when I used to fit in them!

The LC Eileen

Damn you, LC Eileen--

I was planning to blog about "skinny jeans" tomorrow. Eh, maybe I still will. You can't stop me!

I hate skinny jeans. But more on that on the morrow!

Beth,

I did it entirely to thwart you. I'm like that, you know. I'm a thwarter.

The LC Eileen

I have years of experience in making poor fashion choices. A few other suggestions: giant shoulder pads, so much jewlery that should you fall into water you would certainly go down, fingerless gloves (thank you Madonna), the Molly Ringwald I just robbed a thrift store look, oh I could go on and on.....

Skinny jeans are sucky for hourglass figure types. my waist goes way way in from my overly round butt (I think I was made an honorary Latina in addition to an honorary Jew at RT), and skinny jeans make me look like an ice cream cone. Just wrong on so many levels. I'd forgotten (or repressed?) stirrup pants. Oh, god. And, I actually had a denim micro-mini that I wore with shimmery lycra purple pantyhose and a purple angora sweater. Thank GOD there are no pics in existence of that. AARGH.

Other Eileen,

Fingerless gloves are back. I think it might be Lindsay Lohan's fault.

Alesia,

You were stylin', girl! Please please please tell me you had a purple headband to go with the sweater and the tights!

The LC Eileen

I wear leggings and I am not ashamed. I did dance for years (still do, come to think of it) and I never STOPPED wearing 'em.

It's more of a winter thing, i.e. not wanting to retire my skirts for six months, but pantyhose is useless, though.

Oh. Yargh.

I went through a long period where all I wore was big flannel shirts, baggy jeans and baseball caps. I am now, and have always been, the anti-fashion. But, back when I did care, it was the "hide my body" days - oh thank God for that I would never have survived high school if I tried to wear what these girls are wearing!

What I would never do again? The big tunics that came down to just above my kneecaps. The leggings (although, I admit, I wear them for exercising, and I think that's totally appropriate, especially because I exercise in my home) and acid-washed denim.

And Beth - go ahead and do the skinny jeans! Be a rebel!

Never Again:

Neon
Big Ass Shoulder Pads
Acid Wash
Wearing my giant Dr. Pepper Lip Smackers around my neck
Grunge

Hip huggers. Especially hip huggers with giant bell bottoms. Because I am short and round and that is just not a good combination. I work at a college and I see far too many young girls walking around in hip huggers that are too small and even though they might have cute little bodies when wearing something else, it's not attractive to have bulges over the top of your pants. Nor do I want to see your underwear.

I am going to be rebellious and declare my love for stirrup pants and big shirts. Again, see the short and round portion of the post. Because they then hide a multitude of sins and I have a multitude of sins to hide. I miss my stirrup pants. *sigh*

Dia,

I bet you could buy stirrup pants with long enough legs. I'm only 5'9" and it was next to impossible to find ones that didn't wind up with the crotch halfway down to my knees. I still have problems with jeans.

The LC Eileen

Scooter -
You know my vote on the mini-skirts. I think I'll buy you another.
Cowboy

Eileen,
It is indeed true that stirrup pants were almost inevitably the exact right length. Which, given that I am about 5'1" and have a 26" inseam, is saying something. I could never figure out how Tall People managed...

Dia,

We don't manage. We wore stirrup pants with the crotches around our knees. It wasn't pretty.

The LC Eileen

I really hate shoulder pads. Truly, they make women look like footballers. And, the leggings I liked, but not sure I could wear a short skinny top with them. I'm happy to see tunics come back. I can do those. Still not sure about stirrups, though. I have nightmares about the low-riding crotch thingy. And I'm sorry to say, I too did the thing with jean bottoms all rolled and tucked. Peg-leg jeans was it called? lol.

I just flipped through a magazine that said the 80's leather miniskirt is coming back. I had a pleather (plastic leather) mini and a real suede mini and loved them both. I'm going shopping!

Im not real sure why skinny jeans are so aggravating to people. Im trully interested in WHY people would have any strong feelings toward a fashion choice. All I can say is does anyone really not get tired of the same thing for decades in a row. Im very very tired of bootcut jeans. They are just so blah. But they don't anger me. I understand not wanting to look like a pretend teeenager, but surely there are sophisticated ways to wear skinny legs.