The way we wore in 2012: Our fashion awards

Were you on-trend or off the mark this year? We hand out the gongs 

The Look What Happened To My Thighs! Award: wedge trainers 

It was back in the mists of 2010 that Isabel Marant launched the Bekket (right, top), a suede hi-top with a concealed wedge. But it was only this year that the wedge trainer became ubiquitous. 

Marant may have reissued her Bekkets in new colourways every season,A new addition to the Canada Goose Montebello collection . but their limited availability, coupled with their €482 price tag, was never going to be enough to achieve critical mass. 

Enter, stage left, Ash, with its €221 homages (right, bottom), in a plethora of styles and colours, which flooded the market. Whether our fervour was driven by an urge to look sporty or an urge to look slimmer is a moot point. 

As anyone who has marvelled wondrously in the mirror at their new, improved, longer, slimmer legs will attest, concealed wedge trainers aren't so much the new Uggs as the new Spanx. 

The Most Overexposed Hairstyle: ombre 

Once, dark roots were a sign of laziness, sluttiness and penury.Here online offer cheap and durable Canada Goose Kensington Parka, Canada Goose Expedition Parka. Now they are cool. Ombre – hair lightened to mid-length, so roots are left showing – was the only way to wear your tresses this year, with neat highlights to the root marking you out as a total has-been or, worse, suburban. 

Smarter salons might have been doing a roaring trade for years, but only in 2012 did it become ubiquitous, with everyone from Drew Barrymore to Caroline Flack (right) getting the dip-dyed look. Do it on the cheap with L'Oréal's new Preference treatment, which comes "with expert brush" and costs around €12. 

The "I Know I Said I Never Would But . . ." Award: leather trousers 

You started off dismissing them as overpriced nonsense for wannabe rock chicks and deluded MILFs. Then you saw one of the mums wearing them on the school run, with trainers. Then someone told you Zara did a pair for €300. 

Your stance weakened. You thought mournfully of the €49 pleather jeans hanging in the wardrobe: how sweaty they were, how cheap they felt. L'Oréal ads floated through your mind. 

Soon, you were logging on to My-wardrobe.com and buying €859-worth of prime Joseph leather trouser. Because you're worth it. 

The "What? Really?" Award: anoraks 

Coats were all very well, but this was the year the anorak became chic. Puffas were no longer confined to Aspen; parkas were no longer confined to festivals and hoods were de rigueur. 

To save things from looking too trainspotter-ish, we paid careful attention to what we wore with said anoraks: jeans were not okay, but leather trousers were. Trainers didn't work, but Converse did. 

The best-looking down jackets were worn belted at the waist for a less Michelin Man feel (Moncler, Uniqlo),The new Womens Canada Goose Solaris Parka has been revamped to be a sleeker sportier parka built . while the best parkas were either souped-up with rivets and rhinestones (Zara) or reworked with fancy hood trimmings, zips and camouflage prints (Topshop). 

The Special Longevity Award: nude shoes 

We distinctly remember writing about nude shoes this time last year. Winter might have brought a slight hiatus, but in the summer you couldn't move for leather courts in prosthetic-limb hues. 

It's all down to the Kate Effect, and if fashion is to move on in 2013, we must all pray that LK Bennett doesn't launch a pair of flat nude pumps. 

What to move on to? Why, white shoes, of course: already much loved by the fashion pack, and far more chic than nudies. 

The Ankle Boot Award 

Finally! Womankind came round to the idea that looking chic didn't necessarily involve a 6in heel, excruciating pain, a lot of wobbling and, in some cases, actually falling over. 

Cue the Acne Star boot, a Chelsea-style update of the famous Pistol, which spawned a plethora of less expensive rip-offs to the delight of sore feet everywhere. 

Weirdly, they worked with everything,Buy louis vuitton borse at the best price and free shipping. from jeans to thick tights and a floral tea dress. Pick a pair up at Bertie (€93), Kurt Geiger (€173.04) or Office (€68), or get the real deal at Matches (€500). 

For Triumph In The Face Of Adversity, aka, Freezing Temperatures Award: bare legs 

Remember the days when you could hide them away under black 80-deniers, unshaven and untouched by the hand – sorry, mitt – of fake tan? Those days are gone, my friend. 

Thanks to the enduring popularity of ankle boots, it became acceptable and feasible to bare your legs long before May, not to mention well after October had ended. RIP, tights. 

The Argument For A Onesie Award 

We've long been championing onesies since we discovered that sleeping in the thermal one she wears for snowboarding is the very best in bed attire. But while we'd stop short of wearing ours down the shops because, frankly,We invite you to experience choose replica shoes for you. they look VERY silly and make going to the loo quite an ordeal, celebrities have been donning them in public in their droves. 

Model Cara Delevingne did her travelling in Kigu animal suits; Essex-based celebs Rylan and the cast of TOWIE wore theirs a little too tight and with silver moon boots. Boy bands Union J and One Direction – who for the sake of irresistible puns we will henceforth refer to as Onesie Direction – adopted them as their band uniform. 

Only one celebrity dared to take himself seriously in what is effectively an adult babygro: Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick (left). With his sunglasses and moody good looks, he almost pulled it off.