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Skulls for the cocktail hour
Dollface finds some weird and wonderful lip balms at ASOS.
Shoeperwoman wonders what everyone thinks of Roger Vivier’s feather-covered shoes?
Realtor finds more skulls – and this time cocktails are involved, too!
The Grumpy Old Bloggers wonder whatever happened
to self-respect?
And Forever Amber has a swinging
weekend.
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Damn, we’re cruel, aren’t we?
For the last couple of style challenges, we’ve left it more or less up to you what to choose for your outfits, but this week we thought we’d get back to styling a specific item. We picked this Topshop body because although animal print is very much “in fashion” at the moment, we know that an awful lot of you… well, hate it. It’s not the easiest thing to style either, but today we ask you to cast all of your fears aside and imagine that you HAVE to wear this item. There is no choice. What you wear it with, however, is totally up to you, so we’re looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
You’ll find the rules of the game under the jump – please take a look at them before playing!
The Rules:
1. Log-in to Polyvore (you may need to create an account first, if you don’t already have one)
2. Create your outfit, save it and then…
3. You’ll find the top here. Build your outfit around it, and then post a link to your completed outfit in the comments on this post. We’ll publish them all next week sometime, and you can vote for your favourite.
4. Please note: you’re free to post links to as many outfits as you like, but please be aware that we’ll only post one entry per person. You can let us know which one you’d like us to use if you wish – if you don’t specify one, we’ll just choose the first one posted.
5. Once you’ve posted your link, please double check it to make sure it’s working properly – we get a lot of people posting links to the Polyvore home page, so we don’t get to see your outfit!
6. Comments on this entry will close on Monday, at around midday GMT. Once the comments are closed, we won’t be able to accept any further entries, so make sure you get yours in early!
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Blue tab dress, £35, Dorothy Perkins
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“Matching couldn’t be easier!” say Forever 21 of this garment. And yeah, we guess we can’t really argue with them there, because the shrug is attached to the shirt, so there’s really
no matching to be done. And thank God, too, because matching white shirts with black shirts was SO HARD until this came along to save us all, wasn’t it? In fact, we’re not sure we’d have thought of doing this: black cardigan over white shirt, you say? Oooh, tricky! Rather you than us, Forever 21, rather you than us!
Forever21 layered shirt, $22.80
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It’s happened again, readers. Yes, the fashion powers-that-be have decided we need a whole new word to describe something that’s been around for ages, because really, why would you use two words when you can mash them together and create a stupid-sounding new word?
This time the new word is “coatigan”. Which means “coat cardigan” (or, as we would probably say, “cardigan coat”). Do you see what they did there? “They”, of course, are Topshop, who inform us that “The Coatigan is a key piece for AW09″. So remember that name, readers.
As for the garment itself, well, we actually love coat-style cardigans because they tend to do an excellent job of keeping us warm, while still looking smart. This one, however, we have no love for whatsoever. We have a feeling there could be a nice shape under there, but we just can’t tell because we have to look away from the pattern every few second to rest our eyes. If you have no such concerns, though, this “coatigan” can be yours for £65.
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Silver diamond dress, £85, Miss Selfridge
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Lately The Fashion Police have been disturbed to notice a resurgence in the number of Shress Crimes we’ve been called out to. We had hoped that the bad joke that is the sheer dress was starting to die out now, but nope, with the approach of the party season, we’ve started to see even more of them than before. Well, Christmas is coming after all: what more could you ask for than a dress that exposes your almost-naked body in all its glory (or lack thereof). No Mince Pies for the shress-wearers this year!
This one is by Dolce & Gabbana, and it’s floor-length design suggests that what we’re looking at here is their take on the “evening shress” – a Dress Shress, if you will. Perfect for all of those black-tie occasions at the end of the year, no?
Currently only available in UK sizes 10 and 12, this is £278 at Yoox.
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