Every time you may decide to throw away things in you closet the very next week it will be announced as the newest trend. That’s why I use my internet connection from wildbluedeals.comto evaluate the latest fashion trend sites. Before I had wildblue it would be a time-consuming process since fashion sites tend to be full of images but thankfully with high speed internet I no longer have that issue. The truth is any fast internet connection will do. Just find a good deal in your area. Trust me, it will help a lot. One of the sites I find myself coming back to is the fashion section on the HuffingtonPost. Today’s new fashions and trends take most of their inspiration from the past and this year is no different. The year 2011 is re-visiting the fifties and the sixties in all of its glory. Your grandmother and grandfather would be extremely proud seeing their favorite fashions pieces from the fifties and sixties. Heck, they’ll probably take a moment or two to reminisce about their time growing up. Who knew we’d have fashion in common? Not only the clothing but the jewelry is making a come back too! Here are some of the items that have made a strong come-back:

The full circle skirt with petticoat
The figure hugging tight skirt
Soft colors and glamorous materials

The key is to mix and match the fashions of the past with the influences of the future and come up with an entire new retro yet forward modern look. Of course, unless you want to get some weird stares you should slowly transition your wardrobe into that of a modern fashionista. The inspirations of the past are so wonderful because they bring back all the fashions with a new fun and youthful twist adored by many.
So be careful the next time you clean out your closet because you never know when that item will be back in fashion.

While I patiently waited for my lunch one day, I could not help but be sucked back in time. As I glanced at the next table, a teenage girl and her grandmother were enjoying each others company while they consumed a light lunch. But it wasn’t the aroma of the food, or even the special relationship these two shared that transported me back to when I thought Cyndi Lauper was cool. It was what the young girl was wearing. “Isn’t that an outfit I had in Read more on this Article!

Today’s celebrities are globally recognized icons, not to mention trendsetters, but where do the most glamorous guys and gals get their unique style from. In many cases, those present in the public eye, in turn, fix their gaze on the past for inspiration Flock of Seagulls, The British synthpop sensations from the 1980′s , led by frontman Mike Score, were as well known for the MTV-famed “I Ran” music video as they were for the animal perched atop Score’s head. With the front bangs combed tightly down to swoop across the forehead and over the eye, accented by ascending wings curled up from the ears inward towards the top of the head, to a squinting onlooker the hair itself could quite possibly pass for a seagull. Though no modern day celebrity has been so imaginative with their locks, teenster-idol Justin Bieber bears the very same ironed-to-forehead front-do. Were you to comb down the seagull wings down pat over the ears, the 80′s band might be perplexed by a “One Less Lonely Girl” request on their reunion tour. Bee Hive Originally coming into popularity in the 60′s and lasting through the 70′s, bee hive hair, also known as the B-52, was patroned by several famous females in history, including the lady members of the band The B-52′s who quite literally adopted the look as part of their identity. Since its heyday, the bee hive has popped up with some regularity, though mostly in movies and TV set in earlier years. Singer Amy Winehouse sports perhaps the last remaining authentic hive, though according to toxicology estimates, may in fact have no idea what decade it is. Rarely, has the bee hive or derivative hairstyles made their way back towards mainstream popularity, until recently. From 2007 to 2009, miniature “alien poofs” sprouted up atop the heads of women in their late teens to early 20s, not high rising enough to qualify as a full-on bee hive, rather rising at the back of the head like a caricatured extraterrestrial. With advent of Jersey Shore, however, Snooki quickly killed the look, as many young girls reverted to human form to avoid association or accusations of emulation. Read more on this Article!

Finding a great clothing gem to bring back a nice touch of nostalgia can truly make an outfit; however, we equally recognize that some trends die out for a reason. If on the off chance you are out there somewhere in the present still trying to revive one of the following faux-pas of our nation’s past, just stop please, stop.Hammer Pants This unique style of pants are fitted from the knee down but allowed to balloon out in baggy form throughout the loose crotch and thigh area. Taking their name from M.C. Hammer, the rapper popularized the style throughout the United States in the late 80′s and early 90′s, with out-of-this-world dance moves that were complemented by his wild attire. Taking Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” lyrics quite literally, when wearing hammer pants, members of the opposite sex will have no problem with no touching, so go ahead and quit the pants, no matter how legit you are.Platform Shoes Unless you live in Spice World, that’s right, the Spice Girls‘ movie, there is simply no justifiable reason lace up a pair of lifted leg-extensions. Aside from the fact that they look ridiculous, platform shoes also pose a legitimate health hazard, breaking more ankles per calendar year than Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion (of And 1 Mixtape fame). Read more on this Article!

While the 1950′s has been historically perceived as a relatively boring decade by our nation’s young people (in this instance young people may refer to anyone born later than 1959), AMC’s hit TV series Mad Men has single-handedly brought the decade back with a new found vengeance. Between the boozed-up office atmosphere, scandalous affairs carefully kept under wraps and say what you want to say attitude at the expense of political correctness, all portrayed in the show’s extremely well-written script, suddenly the 1950′s are hip, arguably for the first time in history, including the 1950′s. With an entire generation of young men striving to emulate Don Draper, for better or worse depending on your perspective, the first place to start is the throwback 50′s attire. Skinny ties are most notable comeback from a fashion standpoint, though no study has ever been conducted to directly correlate decreasing tie width with rise in Mad Men’s popularity. Considering its mainstream success, the show likely, at the very minimum, accelerated an already rising trend. Read more on this Article!

Maybe it’s the way you fly, you know, “ice cold, no mistakes.” On the other hand, maybe you’ve never even sat in a cockpit. After all, you don’t have to be Iceman to enjoy the perfect pair of aviator sunglasses. Though there’s no pilot’s license prerequisite to purchase a pair, this actually wasn’t always the case. In 1936, when aviator sunglasses were first released, the special model shades were only available to fighter pilots. Finally, after 2 years of deliberation, the large-lensed, thinly framed spectacles made their way onto the market for the general public to purchase. Ray-Ban, who originally concepted and created the aviator design, was soon emulated by fellow sunglass producing companies as the style grew into a nationwide fad.While Top Gun is perhaps the aviator’s most memorable pop-culture appearance to date, the movie actually marked a resurgence in the style’s popularity, having already become somewhat of a fashion staple decades earlier. Before Tom Cruise donned the shades as Maverick, real life war hero, General Douglas McArthur, was seen wearing aviators in newspapers across the country in 1944, after landing on the Filipino beach during World War II. MacArthur can be credited with put initially putting the Ray-Ban aviators on the map, while Cruise gave the brand a much needed reboot decades later. By the time Top Gun was actually released, however, Randolph Engineering served as the United States Armed Forces exclusive aviator supplier. Still, Ray-Ban remains the best selling brand of aviator sunglasses to this day, often among the higher end models carried by most sunglass shops. Read more on this Article!

The cast of Grease While it’s hard to classify any sort of musical as “badass,” the cast members of this movie broke the mold for traditional leather jacket wearers, also opening up the fashion statement as a choice for both men and women. Released in 1978, the film centers around two classmates at Rydell High in the year 1959. Amid 110 minutes of choreographed song and dance, the plot tells a love story between Danny Zuko, played by John Travolta, and Sandy Olsson, played by Olivia Newton-John, who had a fling after meeting on vacation the summer before Sandy would unknowingly enroll at Rydell. Zuko’s rough and tough clique, the T-Birds, all sport black leather jackets throughout the entire movie, while Sandy put in her good girl place, at times ridiculed by other students. In the final scene, Sandy shows up in her own all black leather ensemble, flipping the script on Zuko and the fashion world.James Dean James Dean, best known for his lead role in the film Rebel Without A Cause in which a red leather jacket was displayed prominently as part of his ward robe, will forever have a tinge of leather associated with his lasting image. Though he died in a car crash at the young age of 24, Dean’s legacy lives on in Hollywood to this day. Believed by many reports to be bisexual, Dean helped popularize the look among those of all orientations. Read more on this Article!

Badass, cool guy, biker dude a simple leather jacket can say a lot of things about your personality. As arguably the most iconically fashionable garment in American TV & movie history, the leather jacket has meant a lot of things to many different people, largely thanks to the memorable characters (both fictional characters and real celebrities almost too eccentric for believable fiction) to don one, whether on screen or in the pages of a magazine. Without further ado, these are our picks for the most famous leather jackets in history.Fonzie, Happy Days Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli actually encompasses all three of the aforementioned leather clad stereotypes. Originally written as a secondary character in the Happy Days series, the Fonzie’s popularity grew so quickly writers soon made him a lead character on the show. Fonzie was quite simply the all-around epitome of cool. Even actor Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie, admitted “The Fonz was everybody I wasn’t. He was everybody I wanted to be.” Though Happy Days aired from the mid 70′s to mid 80′s, it depicted times in the 50′s and 60′s, arguably the leather jacket’s heyday. Today, Fonzie’s leather jacket is on display in the Smithsonian Institute. Read more on this Article!