pants. trousers, rather.

seriously, if you want good looking themes, try anything by teschio, tronn, surazal, or eriol. that's just off the top of my head, there are lots of other good themers out there.

i do share your sentiment to a certain extent though, i dunno, i haven't done anything interesting in ages myself ('course i'm busy but still), things are starting to blend together. although i don't care about no wb/shellwm/msstyles, i don't like skinning windows. :P