Checked in with Park City Center for the 2011 back-to-school fashion trends. For girls, sweater ponchos, worker pants (in lots of colors), the tuxedo top (it's big on ruffles), the glam tee and the folk dress. On the boys' lists are rugby shirts, '90s-style hoodies, "Wild West shirts'' (which actually looks more like lumberjack toppers to me), worker chinos and the cardi-coat, which, as you might have guessed, is a kind-of cross between a sweater and a coat.

I'm not particularly interested in the styles, because my daughter is of an age now where my fashion suggestions are cooly received. (I have not,  however, given up my role as fashion censor.) And in these styles I'm reminded once again of fashion's cyclical nature, as the folk dress (peasant dresses of the '70s) and rugby shirts (remember the '80s and '90s) are retailored styles of old -- ok, maybe not so old.

But what really got my attention were the "worker'' pants for, I'm thrilled to note, both boys and girls. I'm banking on the fact that these styles will live up to their labels and bring a fall of tidy bedrooms, clean countertops and an entryway I can maneuver without tripping over backpacks and lunchboxes and sneakers.