that’s because they were bell sleeves and kaftan like and those aren’t in style.
I think that fabric shops have such great prints (even the ones here like joann’s fabric) why not jsut get it made? I myself have really been thinking about getting something like this made in a ombre dyed fabric:

i think most of hte maxi dresses i’ve seen have really ugly prints i saw a nice one at white house black market last month but when i went back to finally get it unfortunately it was gone.