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NEW YORK Skinny pants still are in and hang onto your trench coats. Empire waists are strong, as are shorts.

Midway through Fashion Week seems a good time to assess the trends, colors and fabrics, particularly with an eye toward what you’ve got in your closet from last year that will have legs for spring.

Legs are the operative word here. Skirts are knee-length at the longest, and young girls are sporting minis like mad. Some of the most fashion-forward designers are showing mini sheaths for evening as well as for day. Slim pant silhouettes look good with billowy tops and myriad white blouses on the runway.

If you have a short belted trench coat from last spring, you’re in luck, says Constance White, style director for eBay. Then again, if you’re looking to add one for spring, there was a version in every collection, from Marc Jacobs’ metallic coat to Peter Som’s delicate pearl cotton taffeta trench worn over a dressy top and bell skirt. “There are so many different styles, from some that fit like dresses, to trench coats in prints or unusual fabrics,” White says.

Shorts sold well last spring, after being out of the fashionable woman’s closet for several seasons, and they’re likely to be strong again next year, says Roz Pactor, a Houston-based fashion consultant.

Pactor also predicts women will like next year’s color choices – or non-colors – given the emphasis on black and white. “I think the ‘pop’ color – the one that gives a lift to an outfit – will be yellow,” Pactor says, replacing last year’s accent of orange. Other colors recurring in the shows were cobalt blue and watermelon reds. Fall’s emphasis on gray continues, but the spring grays are softer and more silvery. One combination we saw a lot of, from Ellen Tracy to Douglas Hannant, was white and platinum.

Fall’s roomy silhouettes also are carrying forward, from empire-waist dresses to tent styles. Stylist Philip Bloch, who used to dress a lot of young actresses but now does TV makeovers on “real” women, says he calls them “sexy sacks.”

“They’re sexy because they’re short, and they’re giving an illusion of the body,” he says, “but the great thing is you can have Thanksgivng dinner and Christmas dinner and not worry about it. You can wear them with a belt at the waist or not, it’s up to your interpretation.”

To go with all the soft looks, makeup is pretty, focusing on pink cheeks and glossy lips. And one more thing, ladies – don’t chop off your ponytails. High on the head, at the nape of the neck or even off-center, they looked young and fresh with spring clothes.