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The 90's Trend I'll Never Give Up!

What is that one style, that one fashionable trend that you love so much that you still do it today, and you're not planning on stopping curvy divas?  For me that trend is layering a dress over pants (or leggings)!  It's something that I do quite often and I don't plan on stopping!

One of the reasons I do it is because I don't like wearing dresses that are too short, and even if I do buy a short/mini dress, I'm going to wear it, but with pants, and sometimes leggings!  It is a comfortable and stylish go-to look for me!

I recently read on refinery29.com an article about this very look!  Connie Wang & Willow Lindley, authors of the article wrote that the last time anyone probably wore that style was:
  "....to an Avril Lavigne concert...with flip-flops, braces, and a terrycloth wristband, no less. These days, there's probably no other layering technique that'll elicit such extreme, knee-jerk negativity than wearing a skirt or dress over a pair of trousers..."

Um, no ladies, I beg to differ!  It is a trend that I have even seen recently on the Runway!  Reading the article further, I see that they agree with me!  They too have seen a come-back of this trend on the Runway,

"recent runway ensembles have provided sleek, not sloppy, innovations to this look, convincing us to reconsider...." 
Yes, the look is back (as if it ever left!) with a vengeance, but in a more sleeker version, not the sloppy look of yester-year!

Here are some looks featured in the article, photographs by Masha Maltsava!

Matching dress to pants - I love this look and I do try to do that myself at times, matching the colors will give you a sleeker appearance!



They call this styling a more "playful" look! I agree!




Here's a shorter dress with a slim/skinny pants and booties!  One of my personal favorite!



Other looks that they featured were a longer and looser dress with leggings and a lacy, peek-a-boo dress with pants!  I'm loving them!  What do you think curvy divas, would you wear any of these looks?

To see the article & view more photos, go here!

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