I am tired of sheer tops! And overembellished items.

I do wish dress/skirt lengths could come to just above the knee more often. Mid-thigh is too short for me, and midi length is pretty, but can be tricky to wear.

I love ankle length pants but mostly because they're normal length on me! It's nice to sometimes buy pants that don't need tailoring (but I have a good cheap tailor so I don't mind).

A trend I doubt I'll ever like for myself: peplums. And they're on everything. I think it's too feminine for me, and my long waist means they rarely do anything good for my shape.

Not loving the overly bright polyester tops, but at least it prevents me from over-spending!
Also cropped pants with wide legs and elasticised waists.

Another vote for ankle pants. I've never really liked them and it is so hard to get anything else here.

Add another vote for varying skirt lengths. I'm not a mini skirt kind of girl, so some variety would be nice. And specifically, exposed zippers on fancy/girly party dresses. It cheapens the look, to my eye. Keep rocking them on tougher styles, though!

Short skirts. Who wears those dresses and where??

Cropped pants. No need to explain that one.

Camo. It belongs to the military barracks and no amount of glitter or girly colours will make them look peaceful to my eye.

Thongs. Please. Whoever thought exposing colourful strings of underwear is alluring or stylish has done women a huge disservice.

Sexy clothes for little girls. Just awful.

I'm with Suz on the unnecessary and cheap-looking hardware on bags. This stuff also adds weight--I need a lightweight bag--and the metal looks cheap next to my real gold and silver bracelets.

Also had it with the short dresses. Ages ago I figured out I look best in a mid-knee to an inch below skirt. In the summer I can get away with a just above the knee skirt. Try to find one, especially attached to a dress. (I've aged in some ways but have been blessed with decent knees.)

Thanks for providing the opportunity to vent.

Sleeveless dresses, even in winter. Deep V necks. polyester mixed with cotton and spandex in jeans, which makes the jeans bag and also attracts lint, animal hair and all sort of stuff.

Yes yes yes!

A big nay to:
sheer tops
short dresses and skirts
unlined anything (especially if the cost is high)

Underage, skinny models?

Laughing with Caro!! Let's have some of our YLF friends do the modelling. We're better looking!

Cinnamon Fern -- seasonally confused to me means not dressing for the ACTUAL weather. So if you are drinking iced coffee in November, then I would expect you are not wearing a wooly sweater, scarf, tall boots, and overcoat. Please.

And if it is New York City in January right after a snowstorm, I want the blogger to be wearing tights, not bare legs with her fur coat, and boots, not shiny sky-high stilettos.

ETA: And it is totally okay (wonderful, even!) if you can find "autumnal" coloured items in lighter weight for your warm climate. But not okay if you wear flip flops, a parka, and shorts. Well, not okay to my eye, anyway.

Short dresses, short pants, short skirts, short shorts.

This especially drives me nuts in clothes described as career wear. I would get sent home pretty quickly if I wore most of the career dresses out there.

Even the petite ladies are complaining about things being short. What are taller ladies supposed to do?

1. Short dresses and skirts. To Amy's point - it's fine for date night, the beach, and ultra casual settings - but you can't wear short skirts to work no matter how old you are. Most career settings require coverage.
2. Cropped pants in cold weather. It does not make sense when hemlines are long on the runways.
3. And may we please have some denim silhouette variety. Providing us with all sorts of colours in super skinny skinnies is not variety.

To Angie's point #3, especially if all the colours are that calf-sucking super stretchy fabric that is so soft it might as well be leggings.

I may have a long list..

Super studs everywhere on everything from jackets to shoes to pants. I liked it a bit on the bags but now that it's a minefield that's just..problematic.

Poor quality fabric with exorbitant prices (I'm looking at you Anthro :c). Scratchy wool with a brown the color of a dying pile of..something...okay.

Only skinnies or bootcuts. What happened to straight legs? Why does it only have one color (light blue???)

Cropped everything. Not even pants. Tops too. Jackets/toppers can get away with it because they sometimes can give you that eye catching effect on a slim torso, but otherwise, nope.

Lace items with horrible quality lace. I have no idea why it *may* look good on paper or on the model, but in person/on you it feels like a strange paper mache like net...

Annnd... I'm done. I don't like a lot of other trends, but it's only because it doesn't fit my frame..and hence doesn't belong on this list >.>

I'm late to play, but I want to add cap sleeves. Hate them! They only look good on the tiniest of frames. Super bad for broad shoulders.

I also hate the ankle pants others have mentioned, probably for different reasons. I want more options in bootcut and flare...straight and mini boot are barely different from skinny.

A point to Suz's remark on a seasonal confusion and iced coffee: when I visited Moscow as a child I was shocked that people eat ice cream on the streets in January when temps are below -20C. For a southern girl like me it was simply non comprehensible: you eat ice cream when it is hot, not cold...

lol... I actually really like exposed zipper, but I do believe there is a time and place for those bad boys. As much as I love exposed zippers, I wouldn't want to wear them on cocktail dresses!

As for trends that need to die:
- Overembellishment. As some of you know, I love my statement jewelry and my own embellishments. Embellished clothing (studs, too many zippers, glitter) limits my options and doesn't allow me to change the "mood" of my outfit.

- Very high crew neck necklines on sheath dresses. Very unflattering to those of us busty types. More neckline variation on sheath dresses please?

- Pouffy sleeves. I'm IT. I got shoulders... I don't need anymore pouf around it.

- Waist seams on every dress/top. Again - variations are just needed. The waisted dresses we short-torso-ed girls wear come down to our hips. More streamline silhouettes without waist seams would be nice.

I actually like ankle pants to some
extent, but the season for them here is very short. It kills me that Canadian retailers are now showing dressy ie/
party season style ankle pants with inches of exposed skin and little pumps. Who is going to wear that here this time of year let alone end of December?

Exactly, Jules. That is seasonally confused.

Of course, if we all lived in So. Cal. this would be perfectly wearable. And I get that. But up here, we need coverage!

I too am dismayed at the amount of sleeveless tops and lightweight fabric clothes still being offered in the stores. It's November already. Isn't a large portion of the U.S. getting ready for winter? I know that some of the U.S. has warmer climates, like So. Cal., as Suz mentioned, but I feel like summery wear is still about 75% of what I'm seeing.

And down with polyester! The only good thing about it is that it keeps my buying in check, as I refuse to wear it except in very limited instances. It seems like polyester has to be added to everything. Sometimes I wonder if they're trying to put the cotton growers out of business.

Sweatshirts with big open necks. Enough with the Flashdance look! I want to lounge in a sweatshirt without thinking about the color of my bra straps.

Like Nebraskim and Gigi....can we have some dresses with sleeves, please? I want the ease of a dress with sleeves when I choose (to stay warm) but can layer a topper to change up the look if I'd like.....sigh

I just have to defend ankle pants! Feeling like a little lone advocate over here. I think maybe I've drunk the JCrew juice but I do love them with heels, and I wore them with heeled booties the other day and loved the look. (Next time I will post and you can all tell me I am seasonally confused -- I love that phrase!)

As for dislikes -- my biggest are platform shoes and especially those that remind me of Mini-Mouse feet or hooves, Gaga-style. I feel ancient when I see them because I just do not get them. Period. (Although I do understand and love Doc Martens. But for me there is a line.)

On the other hand, with the Internet there just seems to be room (and a marketplace) for EVERYTHING so I find it easy to just zip by what isn't for me and search for what is. And I don't seem to have fashion desires that are too too difficult to fill, except price-wise. So maybe that is what I am really over: extreme pricing.

Sequins and studs. I have never liked either.

Branding on handbags and shoes. Why would I pay for someone else to put their name on my bag or shoes? A bag should speak for itself. Also, hardware and zippers on bags - find it annoying when I have to match my jewelry or belt buckle to a bag.

Wow it never occurred to me that not everyone would like ankle pants! I like them a lot for this LA climate, and plus if you are a shoe lover they show off your kicks so well!

Isn't there a way to "fill in the gap" during winter with crops? Who here is great with hosiery and has some tips?

What I do is if I like a certain trend and it really suits me, I HOARD just in case that trend is passe after a season. So for instance when winter wallpaper florals come in, I bite big because I will ALWAYS love them but they may not always be available from season to season.

Same with certain colorways. This pink coat thing has me swooning. It is just so part of my style vocab to use pink, that when it is in I really go for it.

Great comments, All!

Camoflauge prints - can't stand - never have been able to tolerate them - reminds me of war and violence - just not for me.

Skinny jeans - the kind that were at the height of their popularity a couple of years ago - that were styled/worn like leggings - I wish all women would purge them from their wardrobes and get on the slouchy skinny wagon.

LOVE exposed zippers! Not sick of them yet!

Also - I dig what some of you call "seasonally confused." That 'look' works in my climate - you know shorts, long-sleeved tops and boots - or sleeveless turtleneck tops, etc. - just so much fun!

I agree with Suz - here, if it's cold enough for a puffer, it's too cold for bare legs and strappy heels. Sheesh.