Women's fashion

The spring and summer collections do away with the 2005 bare midriff fashions previously sported by young celebrity women and made popular by adolescent rock stars. Good thing, too, because those of us that are not shaped like a fashion model stick were starting to feel a little silly.

The tummy showing skirts and tops of last year gave the fashion police a run for their money trying to keep up with all the women who thought that they could squeeze into low riders and get away with it. Faded jeans are still in, but now they are back to waist-cut, as the 2006 fashion shows reflect. Now you can concentrate on whipping your legs into fashion model shape instead of doing sit ups at your local gym.

Today's women will be back to dressing like a lady for the outdoor concerts and picnics. Fashion trends this year will reflect a much curvier cut and relaxed, casual style with flair of elegance, rather than the confining straight cuts of last year. Tailored trousers with a higher waistline and full cut skirts will grace the fashion merchandising runways and shopping centres as the summer/spring 2006 women's fashion season begins.

Fashion designers such as John Galliano strayed from the barely there clothing of last year to design full cut, respectable, proper clothing for the fashion shows this year-mostly.

Because even though waists are higher, so are the hemlines. Get ready for a rekindling of the fashion style of the sixties revisited-the mini skirt blended with the metallic and faded fabrics of the eighties- it's still quite alright to look like a bad girl, you're just an elegant bad girl now. And while women's fashion breathed a sigh of relief that our tummies were out, our legs are back in.

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