5 Styles You Won't Believe Are Back

Every season, designers borrow liberally from the past to attempt to spur on new trends. This Fashion Week everything from gauchos to mauve made a reappearance. Has everyone forgotten that there were very good reasons these styles went kaput in the first place?

By: Cynthia Nellis

February 15, 2011

Source: Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images

Harem pants are the bane of every woman in the world who is not 6 feet tall and 110 lbs. Which is 99.9% of us. Unlike most styles which you can work around to make flattering (with miniskirts you can add black tights to slenderize and adjust for age and size), harem pants — like these on the Carlos Miele runway — are brutally unforgiving in real life.

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