I'm kind of worried

They say the Europeans have their fingers on the pulse of fashion.  This is, apparently, why the patterns in Burda Magazine often look completely outlandish to me.  They are 2-3 years ahead of the provincial little town I live in. Apparently.  

I confess: I do not have my fingers on the pulse of fashion.  (This may not be news to you.)  


I remember the first pattern I saw with an exposed zipper.  It was in the January, 2009 issue. 

Yuck, I thought.  Nice skirt, except for that stupid zipper.  I made the skirt.  I put a demure invisible zipper in a seam at CB (where a zipper belongs).  

I resisted the exposed zipper trend until very recently.  I do love my LBD with the long metal zip.  It took me 39 months to come to terms with this trend.  It's probably just about over.

 

So imagine my alarm when I saw this last week.

At first I thought the good folks on Ravelry were putting a bunch of amusing 30 year old patterns up for posterity.  No.  This is a pattern by Bergère de France from their 2012-13 collection.  


Here's another one. (It's designed for a yarn that includes lurex for "discreet sparkle".)


ACK! 


Burda's doing it too.

I figure I have until fall, 2015 to stay in denial.