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I routinely check CNN for news in the morning while settling into my work day and was surprised to read this headline ‘Modesty is returning to fashion runways.’ It’s not something I was expecting anytime soon given the trends in the fashion industry and the recent issues on global warming which might prompt designers to push the limits on fabric coverage.

If the world needs another sign that Britney Spears’ look is yesterday’s news, check out New York Fashion Week. Gone are the skin-centric, tummy-revealing and possibly private part-exposing trends that Spears and friends like Paris Hilton made ubiquitous. Instead, designers are embracing modesty, using sheer fabrics and lingerie looks to subtly hint at sexiness. It’s an extension of the ladylike trends for fall; designers seem to have made the collective decision that a lot of skin isn’t in.

I had to read that twice to make it sink in. Skin isn’t in for the fall season, its trendiness is on the fall. Good.

I had a professor during my undergrad that sported clothes designed [and probably even made] decades before I was born. I have never [ever] seen her repeat her clothes—that must be one big walk-in closet. Fact of the matter is that even if her clothes were something out of my grandma’s closet—and they do look like so—she was still fashionable. Her clothes didn’t look too out of place since she had aged gracefully through the years.

Sidenote: For those readers who have studied in the same university as I did, she teaches Filipino Literature and is the mother of another former professor from the same university.