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Best Fashion Trends of 2004 Continue In 2005Fashion's pendulum has a mighty swing. One season the buzz is all about lace; the next it's all about leather. As soon as you acquired high-heeled sling backs in every color, you're told that the ballerina flat is in. You tossed all your frilly blouses for the menswear-tailored shirts, only to discover the poet blouse is back.
Been there? Done that? Everyone has.
So what makes spring 2005 a season of promise? For one, the pendulum isn't going to swing in a manner that will completely negate your recent wardrobe purchases. The new season actually embraces some of the trends that made 2004 a memorable year in fashion: bright colors, layering, embellishments, feminine skirts and feminine touches like flowery prints and sweet bows.
"I think that spring 2004 was a skirt season and it continues for spring 2005. If spring 2004 was all about feminine and flirty with a touch of retro, spring 2005 is all about mixed combinations of the unexpected - long with short, loose playing off of lean, sleek with ornamental," says Tom Jullian, fashion trend analyst for Fallon Worldwide. "There also seems to be more of a trouser story with fluidity and motion, kind of getting away from that hipster pant with low rise. I'd also acknowledge the bold plethora of color, citrus cool to nautical bright. I still see the pinks and salmons."
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