Fashion Industry Tries to Recycle Five Stale Trends as Hot for Spring

By Cultist, Tue., Mar. 8 2011 @ 9:30AM

Categories: Fashion

Yes, we've all heard of going green, but when you start recycling trends, well, we're thinking it's a bit much. Season after season people strain their necks to hear the fashion elite whisper what the new trends will be. Except, rarely are they actually new.

It's not that we mind seeing the oldies but goodies again and again, we just hate when they're dubbed the latest trend when they are in fact sooo 2010.

This year is proving to be no different. Magazines, web sites, and blogs are all raving about this spring's hottest trends. These are trends we've been rocking for years! We are either way ahead of the fashion game or these guys have nothing new to give us. Although we'd love to believe it's the former, it's more than likely the latter. Here are the top five been-there-done-that trends for spring.



1.    Blue nails
Please don't tell us this is the "it" color of the season. Our ten little toes have been donning OPI's Russin Navy and Sephora for OPI's Havana Dreams for years now.

Flickr CC LinPernille

2.    Neons
Neons? In style? Really?? No way! Yes way and they've been in style intermittently since that decade we lovingly call the 1980s.

Photo by Frazer Harrison Getty Images for Mercedes Benz

Enough with the day glow.

3.    Flushed cheeks
Um. It's called blush (or a jog). We've heard of it, and we've worn it in pink, peach, tawny, orange, the weird one that looks red but comes out pink, the sticky kind, the powder kind, the kind you can also use on your eyes and lips, the sparkly one and the matte one. So unless you've come up with something that covers the cellulite on our other cheeks, don't list this as a 'new spring trend.'

Flickr CC hkinuthia

Are you overheated or just wearing a crap ton of blush?

4.    Safari
The khaki, the pockets, the brown zebra print, we know.

Photo by Frazer Harrison Getty Images for Mercedes Benz

Wild.

5.    Floral
Wearing flowery prints in spring, imagine that. Possibly our pick for most original.

Flickr cc mariana mansur

Is that a tulip in your pocket or you just happy to see me?

We are praying to the fashion gods for something actually new. We can't justify shopping for a new season when the latest "it" thing has been sitting in our closet for years.

-- Rebecca Salgado