Oh, fashion. You routinely rear your good-looking head and remind us about all of the stilettos, totes and outerwear we need to buy to be your friend. (Are we even friends? Sure feels like a one-way relationship here, financially speaking.)
While we have this often unrequited love with style, we can't help but recognize when -- and we hardly put trends on the spot like this -- an editor-recommended look is just too outrageous for words. Unflattering harem pants are something we can work with,but hard-to-remove (see ankle shackles, above left) electric-blue tuxedo trousers are just too funky for us to freak with … Well, on second thought, the shackles are more like bow-ties, which now that we think about it are kind of cute-slash-amazing. Look at the way the fabric cinches around the ankle ... Okaaay, fine! ELLE loves 'em, and so do we.
+ We might be fickle fashionistas, but what about you? Would you wear the Prabal Gurung pants that Olivia Palermo selected on tonight's episode of "The City?" Take the poll and sound off.