We love lingerie. In fact, it's one of our weaknesses in life, and the prettier and more extravagant it looks, the better.
Here's the thing, though: despite buying more than our fair share of luxurious lingerie, we hardly ever wear it. It just never seems to work out right: that frilly, frothy bra may have looked gorgeous in the store, and it'll probably look great on, too, but it'll also leave all kinds of lumps and bumps under our top, which will totally ruin the look. And those pretty little knickers may be the last word in luxury, but unless they're as comfortable as they are good-looking, we'll be reaching for something plainer but comfier and less likely to be clearly visible under our clothes.
And so it is that all of our lovely lingerie lies unused, while we stick to those plain old basics that are invisible under clothes and so comfortable we don't even know we're wearing them. We know there is a middle ground, occupied by gorgeous pieces that are also comfortable, and which can't be seen under our clothes, but we rarely seem to find it them these days (and when we do, we stock up!).
What about you? Do you share our love of beautiful lingerie, or do you stick to the plain-but-serviceable pieces?
This guest post was submitted by Ashley Reiner. Ashley writes…
Not new to The Fashion Police by any means, Rojas has done it again. What they call a “drape skirt,” in fact looks like leftover fabric stuck to the sides of the skirt. Which leaves us to wonder: who on earth would this look flattering on? No one, that’s who. Even those with flawless bodies will still risk looking like they have fat deposits only on their hips.But, if you’re still not convinced, then you can find this picnic cloth skirt for $80 at Karmaloop.
They look like Crocs, they're ugly like Crocs, but these are not Crocs: no, they're Cloggens, the style enemy you (possibly) didn't know you had. Note the denim insert on the front: we'd probably arrest any shoe made out of denim, but when the rest of the shoe is a plastic Croc-a-like? Ho, boy…
Although we originally arrested these a couple of years ago, some pairs of Cloggens managed to evade arrest, and you can still buy them today, for $20, although we have no idea why you'd actually want to.
Summertime generally means lots of floral prints in the stores, and this year, as well as the usual floral dresses and skirts, we've also been seeing a lot of floral print bustiers, whether strapless or with spaghetti straps. This look is a little bit 50s, a little bit 90s, and we really like it – the tops look great with either jeans or a skirt, and can be sexy without being OTT. But that's just us: what do you think of these?
1. Printed 50s bustier, River Island, £24.99; 2. Antipodium Floral Boobytrap Cotton Bustier Top, £163, Bunnyhug; 3. Rose bustier top, $26.99, Charlotte Russe; 4. Floral bra top, £25, Oli; 5. Ditsy print bustier top with detachable straps, £16, Matalan
The Fashion Police have always aspired to be the type of people who plan their outfits well and advance, and maybe even lay them out the night before, in order to save time in the morning, but sadly for us, we're just not.
Part of this is purely practical: as some of you may know, our HQ is located in the UK, where the weather is as changeable as Paris Hilton's boyfriends, which means that clothing decisions often have to be a last-minute thing, when we wake up and find out what the weather's doing today. (And even then, we'll probably have to get changed halfway through the day when it changes yet AGAIN.)
Partly, though, we're just not very good at planning. We may THINK we're going to be in a jeans-and-t-shirt-mood tomorrow, only to wake up and find that actually, it's gong to be a dress-and-heels-day, so despite our best efforts to get organised, we still mostly fly by the seat of our pants. Or dresses. Or skirts.
What about you? Are you an outfit planner, or do you just take each day as it comes? Vote in the poll under the jump!
Of all of the great mysteries The Fashion Police have had to solve in our time, we think this is perhaps one of the greatest: the question of just how this 80s-tastic print play-suit came to sell-out in all sizes at River Island. (Who, by the way, were charging £44.99 for it. Not hugely expensive, but not exactly bargain-basement .Unlike, say, the play-suit itself.)
Have Florida pensioners suddenly started relying on River Island for their fashion needs, we wonder? Or is this item actually super-stylish, and our "loud print/jumpsuit" blinkers just aren't allowing us to see it?
This guest post was written by Karen Buscemi. Karen writes…
With the prominence of the ‘80s resurgence on the fall runways, I’m thankful I had the good sense to save one key piece from that decade which will be relevant come September: my fingerless Madonna gloves, purchased specifically to wear to the Like a Virgin Tour, circa 1986.
You’ve probably witnessed trends you once loved and wore enthusiastically – then later cringed at when revisiting old photos of yourselves – come back into fashion. When harem pants reappeared this spring, I swore I would never allow that style to touch my body again. The same went for padded shoulders. I had nightmarish flashbacks of my childhood, remembering my family doubled over laughing while viewing slides of me in what appeared to be a homage to Boy George and David Bowie.
And yet, my closet is filling again with both trends. Why have I agreed to go back there?
Back in the mists of time (well, OK, 2007), we wondered if these John Fluevog shoes could be the ugliest shoes in the world. Ah, the innocence of youth! Since then, we have, of course, had our eyeballs singed by even uglier sights, but we still think these take a bit of beating, no?
We’re particularly amused by the girlish pink colour of the uppers. Because, yes, that all-important dash of femininity totally detracts from that hideous little heel, doesn’t it? (Clue: that would be a “no”.)
