Fashion Police

[gerisullivan]

This post started out as an email to smofbabe, debgeisler, and elaine_brennan, but before I finished it, I decided to inflict it on anyone who dared click on the links:

I'm not sure what body shapes this dress would look good on, but I'm certain none of them are plus size. No wonder it's on clearance....

On the other hand, the front view of this winter jacket strikes me as fashionably cute (in a good way), even with its super-wide lapels. I bet it would fail the warmth requirement for this climate, and the back view from the waist down is questionable...if I'm being overly generous.

Great Ghu, there are a lot of ugly clothes out there right now.

The entire "let's bring back the '60s and '70s, but make them worse" trend is disturbing. Here's a typical, gag-prompting example. I noticed this trend several years ago, and immediately hoped that it would sink within a season. No such luck.

Over on the shoe & boot front, Deb will be relieved to learn that even I think these are ghod-awful.

"Plaid wool and rich suede intriguingly mix on a lace-up ankle boot balanced atop a stacked heel and hidden platform." No, that plaid on that heel is not balanced or intriguing. It's revolting.

While we're reshaping the economy, is it too much to hope that designers and manufacturers will learn that one good way to persuade consumers to part with their hard-earned and limited funds is to offer attractive merchandise? Good quality and reasonable prices don't hurt either. With those in place, merchants will have a better chance of selling things before everything in their stores and websites hits the clearance racks.

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Oh dear. Your Faithful Correspondent must acknowledge, or admit, her love of both sets of boots, most particularly the plaid ones. And she must say she really likes the first dress, for reasons even she cannot quite parse, unpack, or grok. The brown skirt, on the other hand, looks like a 7th grader had the flu when she was trying to finish it for her Home Ec sewing final. The peasant blouse looks like it wandered into Nordstrom from Sears, and is being kept warm and fed by the kindly other clothing pieces, who don't quite know what to do beyond that.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

This may sound odd, but it's actually something of a relief to me that someone I know (and whose fashion sense I admire) likes those two pairs of boots. I think it's because knowing that justifies their existence (to my sensibilities, anyway.

I think the first dress has the potential to look good on some people. I can't make the jump to it looking good on any plus-size people I know or have ever seen. This may be a failure of imagination on my part. I would love to be surprised, and I like the underlying concept of the design as well as the fabric. I just don't think that cut (in that form) works on large bodies of any shape.

Hmmm...maybe cross-dressers? Especially cross dressers with no bellies and small butts? But there needs to be some widening of the hips compared to the empire waist, some curves other than the bust line for the dress to work.