I’ve developed a new appreciation for these after moving to a hot climate-- as long as they aren’t tight-fitting, I find them much better for wearing with sandals than long pants (not good when the streets are flooded) or shorts (generally not done here unless you want to look like a tourist). Plus I don’t think they look half bad on me…or maybe I’m just deluding myself. 
Short gaucho pants, however, are RIGHT OUT. Bellbottoms were bad enough when they were full length. Blurgh.
Fashions that passed me by:
Flares
Gold chains
Baseball caps
Batwing jumpers
to name but a few.
The fashion item I’ve never got is the deliberately wrinkled garment - skirt, blouse etc. Why would I want to pay upwards of $200 for a skirt which looks as if I’ve been sleeping in it for a fortnight?
Hey! As a short woman with a big chest, at least some baby doll type shirts fit right, and put attention somewhere other than my belly. 
But it depends on the fit, I do have some that I may give away because of how I look in them.
I do intensely dislike the new trend towards longer, slender shirts. I’m 5’ 1"… I can use those shirts to cover me up when I’m going to sleep. They reach past mid-thigh… The ones that will fit my upper part are too long in other places (so I have to go with a shirt that is tight at the top sometimes).
Jayn mentioned the good things about low-rises. I love them, I dislike high waist or even some regular waists. But like she said, if you get muffin top, you need to lose weight or get a bigger pair. Heck, getting muffin top on a jean I previously didn’t get was what prompted me to shape up again and lose weight.
They’ll pry my low-rise jeans from my cold dead (yet still fabulous) ass. *Super * low-rise isn’t okay (because crack is whack, yo), and muffin top, while ubiquitous and regrettable, is a problem inherent not to low-rise jeans, but to peoples’ insistence on buying the smallest size they can possibly squeeze into.
I also love empire waist/babydoll tops and dresses, but they **must ** be well made and fit properly. The seam has to lie in the correct place (UNDER your breasts, ladies, not across), and the bottom should skim the body, not balloon out away from it. A well made and properly fitted babydoll can be wildly flattering.
And just for Dung Beetle, I love, love, *love * a cap sleeve! 
My shoulders are narrower than my hips, and I have great arms, and a cap sleeve both disguises the former and highlights the latter. I’ve never had any problem with them creeping up into my pits.
Oh, and about the buttoned shirts (because I am wearing one right now). Sigh… It IS hard to get a decent buttoned shirt for work that does not cause problems. If I get one that doesn’t stretch around the boobs at all… guess what, I look like a potato sack because it is too loose. I don’t look clean or polished. If I wear one that does stretch (I try to correct with bobby pins, they do help), although it is stretching, it fits the belly, and I do look more “professional”.
And as to why I don’t have them tailored? I don’t get paid enough to have 5-10 shirts tailored to my fit. I’m not rich, bitches, and in my budget clothes are not high in the list (food and travel is ).
Shrugs remind me of warm-weather “chubbies.” I never understood the chubbie.
Wearing jeans or pants that are so long they drag on the ground and get constantly stepped on and tear apart.
I like shrugs because I have big boobs and a waist that, while smaller, has a bit of a tummy to it. Shrugs will draw the attention up to my boobs instead. Plus, it’s another way of changing up your overall look (it’s not a sweater; it’s an accessory!).
I also LOVE the longer shirts that have come to style. Check this one out, as an example. The key is to not wear it like a faux-minidress like in the picture. I wear it at normal-shirt length but can use the extra fabric (since it’s really THIN fabric) to artfully drape folds to disguise any midsection flaws!
And some people with plastic rectangle glasses (though mine were dark purple and my current ones are dark red) wear them because they look good on them; I couldn’t care less if any hipster wore them at any given time.
It’s funny that the saggy pants has continued through at least two generations of teenagers. It’s one of the few fashion choices that has stayed for so long. I think it’s because (most) of the ones who first did it grew out of it and realized how stupid it looks. This means that their kids can do it and the adults still think they look stupid (thus cementing the look in teenage rebellion).
Ugh, this reminds me of a period in high school when the style favoured jeans with patterns on the lower leg. I could not find pants that fit me to save my life. Every store locally either carried plain jeans in nothing under a size 5 (which is 2-4 sizes too big for me) or patterned jeans, all with 32" inseams (again, too long). And the latter couldn’t be hemmed without looking stupid.
In my case, I wound up wearing baggy jeans as much for style as for lack of a better option. Thank Og for hips or I would’ve been totally screwed.
Extreme low rise pants are awful, though–try finding a NON monistat inducing pair of jeans. It’s really hard these days.
Oh, dear. Up till now I love love loved you, Diana.
sadly crosses out one “love”
Cite? 
I’m not even sure if I want to know what this means . . .
Some low-rise jeans are really, really tight in an area that on guys would raise their voices an octave.
And that gives you yeast infections?
It’s one of the causes. Sometimes they just happen, but one cause is super tight pants that trap moisture. Ideally, in the state of nature we’d wear no pants or underwear and let everything drip–but wearing pants that fit well is the next best thing.
Leggings. Urgh. I can’t even get up the energy to rant about them. Also second/third/fourthing pants under dresses. Decide, already!
And I do miss men in actual shorts. (Not so short you’re in danger of the “unneutered Doberman rear view” error, just actual short length.) I was looking for a good picture of Tom Selleck to prove my point, and the first one I found came with an endearing little poem.
Man, I think we dress like twins, honey! 
Not just crocs, but high heeled crocs
here and here
My personal pet peeve is young girls with designer bags
High school freshman should not be hauling around their books in Coach, Louis Voitton, or Doone&Bourke bags.
Seconded (or thirded, or…) for mismatched lipliner and clothes that don’t fit
Athletic socks with addias style sandals do not look “cool”
