7 “Dated” Dress Trends Fashion People Are Wearing in Fall 2025

While it’s true everyone with good taste is wearing boots with jeans and a jacket, those with even better taste are opting for one of these “dated” dress trends. Not a barrel leg, not a trouser, the fall-appropriate dress is the style set’s secret to a fashionable fall. 2025 fashion has proved that trends once thought to live only fondly in memory are back: skinny jeans, bandage dresses, capri pants, kitten heels—the list goes on.

Fall classics like the oversized trench, cashmere crewneck, double-breasted blazer, and dark-rinse denim will hold their place in every fashion person’s wardrobe, but it’s time to make room for these seven dated fall 2025 dress trends. Think chunky knits circa 2017, dusty tartans and plaids, boho-chic ruffles, flirty florals, a Victorian throwback, and so much more. Scroll on to see which out-of-date trends have found themselves back in vogue.

A shameless throwback to the súper chunky turtleneck sweater dresses from 2017. Reminiscent of simpler times and simpler outfit formulas, one of the chicest fall ‘fits this season is a knit dress paired with knee-high boots. The multi-hyphenated Anouk Yve has paired her mocha cable-knit midi dress with chocolate patent-leather boots for an elegant monochrome look.