Black sequin mesh prom dress, £60, Miss Selfridge
Dress of the Day: Black sequin mesh prom dress from Miss Selfridge 
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Dress of the Day: Black sequin mesh prom dress from Miss Selfridge
More lace bellbottoms, this time by Silence + Noise
Lace flares. Lovely.
Remember the Kova & T lace bellbottoms we showed you a few weeks ago?
They’re starting to look pretty good to us now, compared to this budget version from Silence + Noise, which have so many gaps in the lace that they may as well not exist. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on our part.
Want to look like this? They’re $32 at Urban Outfitters.
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Peep-toe-boots pretending to be gladiator sandals from River Island
This is a triple-whammy fashion crime, readers: not only is this a boot pretending to be a shoe, it’s a PEEP-TOE boot pretending to be a shoe. And not just just any old shoe, either: this peep-toe boot is pretending to be a high-leg gladiator sandal. All that really remains is for River Island to stick a pair of harem pants to it and it would be in the running for the Largest Number of Fashion Crimes in One Item Award.
Actually, we don’t think these boots are quite as bad as the phrase “peep-toe-boots pretending to be gladiator sandals” might initially suggest, so if you’ve been desperate for a way to continue wearing gladiator sandals well into the winter (or to at least LOOK like you’re wearing them), you can pick up a pair of these for £175 at River Island.
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[Guest Post] Politics and fashion don’t mix – how Samantha Cameron ruined my favourite dress
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Samantha Cameron in THE dress
Gemma Cartwright writes…
It was love at first sight.
Last Spring, Marks & Spencer released a ‘modern reinterpretation’ of a vintage frock that seemed to come straight out of my dreams. It was a grey tea dress with cream polka dots and a fan detail on the shoulder (very Phillip Lim). It was chic, simple and fitted perfectly. It was £55, limited edition, and I managed to grab one of the last ones in the country in my size.
Then Myleene Klass wore it. This tainted it a bit for me, because she is much thinner and seemed to be able to wear them damn thing without it creasing, but I still loved the dress and I still loved wearing it even if I couldn’t pull it off with quite such photogenicity as Myleene.
Then Samantha Cameron happened.
A few weeks ago, the wife of the Conservative leader suddenly appeared at a high-profile event in my dress. Except it wasn’t my dress. My dress had sold out months ago. Her version was custom-made at Stuart Rose’s command, was rumoured to have cost over £100 to produce, and had everyone wondering if it wasn’t a bit naughty that she got special treatment just because she’s married to the leader of the opposition.
It felt like every single newspaper ran the story. For about a week you couldn’t open a paper without seeing that bloody dress. It’s now the TORYDRESSFROMHELL. If I wear my frock now, I might as well ram a big blue rosette on my chest and be done with it. My political views don’t lean strongly enough in any one direction for me to want them emblazoned on my chest for the whole world to see. Unfortunately, that dress has become a symbol for how the Torys are Just Like Us and Shop On The High Street Too.
The dress went down so well with the public that M&S have now released a new version, in a black and white print (with the unflattering white bit right around the middle which we really want to divert attention away from) for £45. I won’t be buying it. In fact, I think it’s time I went back to Primark…surely Samantha won’t shop there?
[Read more from Gemma at the fabulous Big Girls Browse]
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Dress of the Day: Teal one-shoulder dress from Dorothy Perkins
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Style on Trial: Rose bubble dress by Haute Hippie
On Trial: Haute Hippie Dress
As regular readers will know, stick a flower on something and The Fashion Police will generally like it: and the bigger the flower, the better.
We think we may have finally met our match with this Haute Hippie dress, however, which makes this poor Shopbop model look like she just won first prize in some kind of bizarre contest run by giants. And it’s a shame, because it’s one of those cases where we feel like we SHOULD like it, but… we don’t.
What about you? Do you find this dress guilty or innocent of crimes of fashion? If you think it’s innocent of all charges, better get saving: it’s $985 at Shopbop.
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Revenge of the Shoulderpads: Dolce & Gabbana’s puff sleeve trenchcoat
We’ve had to put up with a lot from shoulder pads this year. They’ve been on everything from dresses to jackets to shirts: in fact, chances are that if it covers your shoulders, it’s probably had a pair of giant foam pads inserted into it at some point this year.
We think this Dolce & Gabbana trench coat is one of the more amusing shoulder-pad pieces of the year, though: not just because the thought of paying £1,850 for something we’d have trouble fitting through doorways in makes us snicker slightly, but because it looks like the Incredible Hulk is about to come busting out of it at any second. In fact, we’re pretty sure that if the Hulk shopped at Dolce & Gabbana, this is what he’d buy.
If you want to buy it too, you can pick it up at Browns.
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[Guest Post] Reminder: Let us learn from the poncho
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The Poncho: let us learn from its mistakes
Gemma Cartwright writes…
Remember when ponchos were trendy? Remember when you first saw them and you thought “I’ll never wear one of those” and then it got cold and you realised they were Quite Practical Actually and you ended up buying one just to wear around the house, and then before you knew it you were wearing it to the supermarket, and then to visit your grandma, and then to work…
Well, you looked like this. We all did.
Think about that next time you consider ugg boots / patterned leggings / harem pants / wet look.
[Read more from Gemma at Big Girls Browse - shopping and style for women with curves]
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