Skip to main content  10 fashion trends with staying power  By
Ingela Ratledge, updated 8:56 AM EDT, Fri September 23, 2011 The
leather bomber jacket is chic but tough, making it timeless.   •
Experts predict which fads have come and gone -- and which will
come back again   • Platform shoes and boots, wedges and ankle
boots keep returning to the footwear scene   • Peasant skirts
and skinny jeans are recurring fashion trends  ( -- Leather
Bomber Jacket  Why it keeps coming back: Strictly for the
cockpit set when it debuted during World War II, the bomber
jacket, which saw plenty of action on terra firma after it
caught on with 80s-era trendsetters, like Madonna, is "chic and
a little tough at the same time," explains Valerie Steele,
director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion
Institute of Technology, in New York City.  Keep it if: The cut
flatters you and the style sticks as close to the original as
possible, as any major variations tend to look passé. Take stock
of the cuffs, too: "Leather cuffs a