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April

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...bracelet or 3/4 sleeves. Enough. Give us long sleeves or short sleeves (or how about more elbow-length sleeves).

How about you, what are you tired of at present?

5 years ago

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KMM

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I could use a break from boxy, oversized tops and sweaters. I wish tailored options were more readily available and I didn't have to sift through so many items to find them.

Though obviously the answers to your question April will be deeply personalized.. I love 3/4 sleeves

5 years ago

Nebraskim

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Ankle-exposing pants. Hate them on me. Totally stumpifying. And in the winter (today it's -4) so cold.

5 years ago

ChristelJ

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Cut-in shoulders on sleeveless tops and dresses. I have bra straps to hide!

5 years ago

rachylou

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I wish I could find some, golly. They’re good for baking (sleeves away from the flour). But 1/2 sleeves would be even better, yes!

5 years ago

Anonymous

3/4 sleeves dont bother me, since I push sleeves up anyway, but can do without cold shoulder tops. If its cool enough for sleeves, its too cold for exposed shoulders! Also, weird tan lines (says the lady with the striped feet in summer...).

Also, boxy double breasted jackets. I have curves, my clothes should too!

5 years ago

nemosmom

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Overly distressed denim!

5 years ago

Jules

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Sheer blouses and thin knits! Can’t clothes just do their basic job of covering us adequately?

5 years ago

ophelia

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High waisted pants! They make my low slung and generous rear look a mile long.

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5 years ago

SarahD8

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Seconding high waisted pants. I don’t need my clothes to be perpetually performing the Heimlich maneuver on me!

5 years ago

ophelia

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And whiskering on jeans.
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5 years ago

ophelia

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Sarah D8, lol, exactly!
Like control top tights, they give me indigestion.

5 years ago

Anonymous

Seconding the too thin clothes. I'm tired of having to wear a cami or slip under everything!

5 years ago

ophelia

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I apparently have a lot to say on this topic, but thirding too thin clothes. It's just a way to make us buy an extra piece to wear with them and replace them as soon as they get the inevitable holes.
Also the boxy tops--I survived the 80's and I swear I couldn't find tailored tops or non-stomach-choking jeans the entire decade.

5 years ago

The Cat

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I so agree with you about 3/4 sleeves.
I am also tired of seeing short skirts and hope to see many more knee length or midi skirts.

5 years ago

Joy

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I love 3/4 sleeves or those that just cover the elbow. I would like to see a break from thin, clingy knits and leggings as pants. A thin clingy knit top worn over leggings is hardly ever a good look. I also am on team no-more -distressed -denim.

5 years ago

Alicewonderland

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Oversized plaid blazers. Cold shoulder tops-hope they don’t re-emerge this spring.

5 years ago

Helena

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Store "displays" that look like they piled up clothes on random shelves and then allowed a daycare full of toddlers to play in it for a while (I'm looking at you, Gap!!)

5 years ago

Angie

(website)

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* big chuckle*

April, I like three quarter sleeves in the Spring and Summer - and I push sleeves up. I think it's a pretty and practical length on the forearm. Alluring yet modest. High fiving, Suntiger and Rachy.

I'm with Nemosmom on the distressed denim, and Jules on the too sheer tops.

I'll throw in a fashion break for: body con skinnies, pants that are calf-sucking, and all round dodgy fabric.

5 years ago

Anonymous

Where do I start???????

1. Ankle and cropped length. Please, please give me the option of full length pants again.
2. Boxy and oversized anything. I want a sleeker silhouette.

There is more. So much more. I will spare you my complaining this morning.

5 years ago

Cardiff girl

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I do so agree!I like a 3/4 in summer but when it’s cold and you have to put a topper on they drive me mad!

5 years ago

Anonymous

Mitts, hats, scarves, huge boots, and my puffer.

5 years ago

April

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Bring it on, Sterling -- I asked for it, after all.

It's funny that I adore long short sleeves (the kind that come to the elbow) but am sick of short long sleeves. Mostly, I'm tired of my hands and forearms getting sun- (or liver-) spotted and don't want to showcase them with a sleeve hem that ends right there.

5 years ago

ophelia

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I like all the crop and ankle pants available-but not high rise--because on me they are full length!
I do love 3/4 sleeves.

5 years ago

Liz

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I actively search out tops with 3/4 sleeves -- it's my favorite length for spring/fall.

I'm with Angie -- I'd love a break from dodgy fabric.

5 years ago

Janet

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I’m also not a fan of 3/4 sleeves. I either want sleeves, or I don’t. Probably a product of our climate which tends to run hot or cold.

I could use a fashion break from cropped pants and jeans — please, how about some full-length, please??

5 years ago

ophelia

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Really tight, thin leggings worn as pants.

5 years ago

taylor

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Cold shoulder anything! I’m all for off the shoulder, but those cut outs..way over the market saturation...no thanx!
I also prefer sleeves or no sleeves . 3/4 sleeve is awkward on me. I have long arms.

5 years ago

Katerina

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I am a bit tired of extreme crazy pattern mixing and colour mixing at the same time, as shown on many runways now. If literally anything goes together, what is the point at all....
Not really a fashion break, though, because nobody actually dresses like that.

5 years ago

Sal

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Fourth or fifthing the sheer tops that need a cami under. I have one left and no more for me.

I am also over seeing denim cutoffs that have the pockets poking out.

In general though I have loved the fashions in NZ this summer - wide leg crops, midi dresses, wide variety of colours, lots of print, flat sandals and slides.....I think it has been a great season.

5 years ago

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