Ok, I am woman enough to admit when I am wrong ...

... and I was wrong about the following:

1) Skinny jeans. Yes, yes, two or three years ago I did say they are flattering to absolutely no one who doesn't have legs the length of Agness Deyn's ... but now I admit they are cute. And we all have them. And nothing has changed, they still probably look short and dumpy on me, but I may try to wear a pair on Saturday anyway, despite being 5'4". FINE.

Leighton Meester, I wish I was you. Weird name and all.

2. Platform heels. I still maintain that some of them make you look like a hooker. See exhibit A:

I'm sorry, I just can't get on board this $120.00 BCBG train.

However, these:

These, I covet deeply (... and might purchase, though actually I was looking for a less formal pair. Something with a wooden heel and brown leather, maybe?). And these:

... well, these are more or less art. ($700-per-pair art, yes, but whatevs. Someday I will own you from eBay.) 3. ... Sob ... i can hardly bring myself to say it ... PEGGED JEANS. (i'm so ashamed.) Ok, LOOK. I honestly don't even really know when pegged jeans were last in, because whenever it was, I wasn't paying attention to fashion. I was nerdy. A little, fashionless, nerdy, ugly girl. So when I first heard discontented rumblings that pegged jeans were making reappearances, this is what I saw and thus thought of:

C'mon, guys. That's bad. It's just bad. I get the comfy, slouchy boyfriend thing, but Katie Holmes is like 5'10" and even she manages to look dumpy and scrubby in these. Right? So it's understandable that I was like OMG NO DO NOT BRING BACK PEGGED JEANS (from, uh, whenever they were. The 80s, I presume? Everything ugly was big in the 80s). But recently, searching the Steve Madden site (for platform heels. I already admitted I was wrong, okay?) and came across a lovely spread of The New Shoes that I apparently Have To Wear With This Season's Pegged Jeans Trend!!, and they were .... cute. They were all pretty cute. Of course the jeans were slimmer and not uber-distressed, and the cuffs were rolled a little higher so you can see a bit of calf, which I think is pretty.

Unfortunately I can't find this spread on the Madden site anymore, but these are a little more like it:

These are still a little strangely baggy in the crotch/waist and I am anti-ripping, but I like that you can see a tad more ankle and calf, and with a heel I think that can be pretty. So OK. Basically I'm just prepping you to say that I might roll some of my jeans this summer, MAYBE. (p.s. I have pair that I 'cuff' because they're too long to wear with flats, but I don't consider that rolling, just laziness/miserliness as I refuse to buy another pair with inseams of the correct length.) And to round it off, current trends I love: 1. Maxidresses. Thank you, gods of fashion, for bringing this comfy clothing option back into play. The printed maxi below is like 14 kinds of cute, and brings the ability to pretend I'm comfortable in revealing, summery clothes while not actually revealing anything at all. Woo hoo! 2. Flats. Praise the gods. I love a heel as much as the next girl but it is nice to know that I can give my feet a break while not diving into frumpy-mom territory. These are cute, right? Nothing special but sweet and easy. 3. Metallics. In moderation, I do so love a good metallic--a shoe, clutch, or belt in a gold or bronze is just super pretty, and pretty safe. It's easier to get in trouble with larger swathes of metallic, but I have also seen some gorgeous minidresses, tunics, and shifts in dull or muted metallics that make me drool. (No pic, it's making my post all wonky when I try to import one.) However, I will never get on board with these trends: 1. Super, super distressed jeans. Or anything with paint flecks. Seriously, why would I pay to look like I'e owned clothes for 4 years and painted my house in them? 2. Shoulder pads. Please no. 3. Those ridiculous peep-toe boots that came out last fall, and current their summer inverse: sandals with, like, random extra fabric wrapped around the ankle. See leftmost picture for what I think of as caveman sandals, because they sort of look like a caveman would wear them, or, you know, someone else who was no access to civilization and/or the tools one would use to create aesthetically-pleasing clothing. See the middle and right for two particularly egregious examples of peep-toe boots: a hideous, part-Timberlands, part-gladiator, all-ugly high-heeled boot/sandal/thing; and a pair of $800 Sigerson Morrison leather "riding boots" that look like vomit. Seriously, WTF? What on earth are these good for?