Well, it looks like the dreaded Clothes Ripper has struck again, and poor Peaches Geldof has been targeted for a second time! What did she do to attract the ire of the Ripper this time, we wonder?
Of course, joking aside, the "oops, I laddered my tights, but I don't care because that's how totally badass I am!" look has been around ever since Rodarte sent models in carefully ripped tights down the runway last year (and before that, too, for that matter), but here's Peaches, who lets no trend go untried, arriving at Nice airport this weekend in her own version. Nice hair.
What do you think of deliberately laddered tights, readers? We think his is a hard look to pull off – if we tried it, we'd just look like homeless people, for instance, and passers-by would throw us their spare change – but what about you? Are you rocking ripped tights, or does the very sight of them make you want to offer their wearer a pot of clear nail polish, in a bid to repair the "damage"?
"There are actually some really nice, really cheap dresses on this site (boohoo.com) if you're size 14 max. But…this one makes her look like a balloon expelling air from a gigantic hole in the back. Fantastic."
- Meryl
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And indeed, Meryl is correct. It looks a little bit like this model has just burst, no? Assuming she hasn't, though, we have to ask: what is the purpose of the back vent? We know a nicely toned back can be very sexy, of course, but to present it like this, framed by a frilly curtain, seems to defeat the point.
Your assistance in solving this mystery is, as always, welcome!
Yes, it's true: the harem pant invasion of the world continues,and now not even pyjamas are safe from what we've come to think of as The Curse of the Crotch.
Actually, though, this application of the familair old saggy crotch syndrome is possiblty the only one that actually makes sense to us. After all, they're probably comfortable, and if you're wearing them in the comfort of your own home, that falls outwith the jurisdiction of The Fashion Police.
Rather than branding them Crimes of Fashion, then, we will simply note that they're £12 from Topshop. What you choose to do with that information is, of course, up to you.
We've had a great response so far to our plea for guest posts, to be published during the second half of June, but we're still looking for more, so if there's something you'd like to say about the weird and wonderful world of fashion, now's your chance to say it!
Our submission guidelines can be found here, so please take a look at them before sending in your post and, as always, make sure you do a site search before you start writing to make sure we haven't already covered the item you want to write about. If in doubt, feel free to email us.
A bit of old-fashioned glamour to finish off our Friday. This dress is £55 from Oli, and we'd wear it with red lipstick and a pair of skyscraper heels. You can buy it here.
It's kinda like Spanx for Teletubbies, isn't it? It's not being sold as shapewear, though, so if anyone can enlighten us as to how and why they'd wear something like this, we'd love to hear it. If you'd love to buy it, meanwhile, it's £105 from here.
We really have to admire Karen Millen for making a dress with a skirt that looks suspiciously like the paper chains we used to make as Christmas decorations when we were in school. Or like pastry. Because everyone loves pasty, no? Mmmm, pastry!
Maybe the red and green colours are to blame for adding to our impression that these dresses look more decorative than wearable, of course, but for some reason we're thinking of Santa's little elves now. And humming jingle bells.
What say you, readers? Do you love this look? Hate it? Feel totally indifferent in every way? Tell us!
They say you learn something every day, and today The Fashion Police learned that the strange boot/sandal hybrids we've been seeing so much of in the fashion world recently actually have a name. They're called bandals. (Boot/sandals. You see what they did there?)
Yes, the same fashion writers (or at least, we'd assume it was the same ones) who brought us the terms "jeggings" and "shants" have done it again, cunningly mashing two words together, in roughly the same way Office must have mashed a boot and flip-flop together to create these 'Harp' thong booties. Sorry, we mean bandals.
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