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Anyone want to talk about women's fashions through the years? I work at a university and have been a close observer of women's clothing for 20+ years. Of course yoga pants have been a most welcome style. A few years ago shorts (almost always jean shorts) were getting really short and I thought, if they get any shorter we will be seeing butt cheeks. Well, I was right. This year, not only are they short, but they are loose athletic style, almost a 1970s look, and as a young lady picks up her backpack it will frequently pull up one side of the shorts, if not both. I've seen more cheeks already this year than the last 20 combined. Below is an example of the shorts.

Also popular are long shirts that almost make the wearer look like they don't have on shorts. Almost like a super mini-skirt. Rather sexy in a way. Opposite that, midriffs are back in a big way this year. related to that are shirts that not much more than sports bras, many of them white, however they all seem to have padding. But, for normal small chested women, bras are either thinner, or girls are starting to skip wearing them again. I've seen a handful of nips, nothing too prominent, but they are obvious to anyone looking.

I work in the middle of the USA so people tend to dress more conservative here than, say, a university in Florida or California.

Anyone else live or work where they get an up-close look at changing styles?