NY Fashion Week

It's time for the Fall 2009 collections to get trotted out onto the runways in NYC. This year's horror of horrors?

SHOULDER PADS.

The loathsome 80s stand-bys were to be found all through the Herve Leger collection, above, and the Jonathan Saunders collection:

The Diane von Furstenberg collection looked like a lot of very tall, leggy bag ladies wearing their wadded-up laundry on their heads:



Donna Karan was a bit classier, with some lovely Audrey Hepburn-esque selections like this one:


I absolutely love the fur cowl thing that she put on a lot of her outfits, and many of them even used the elegant black arm-length gloves and black leggings with black boots that just make anyone look very classy. But even DKNY wasn't immune to the horror of the SHOULDER PADS:

Subtle shoulder pads, to be sure, but they're there. Oh, yes, they're there. And is that a JUMPER? Is the "Homeschool Mom" uniform coming into vogue? I love the close-fitting long-sleeved shirt look underneath many of the DKNY collection pieces. Probably because that's how I have to roll these days since I don't have bare arms that can be seen in public.

Nonetheless, I thought I'd sound the warning: Run screaming from the room, y'all. The shoulder pad is coming back.