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Meet the latest fashion trend for winter 2010, readers: slippers as shoes!
The phrase “slippers as shoes” is perhaps a little misleading here, because these “slippers” actually are shoes, in that they have thick soles and sturdy uppers, and are most definitely designed to be worn outdoors. The good news, then, is that no one is expecting you to “do a Tesco” and walk around in public in your actual slippers. The bad news, however, is that you’ll still look like you’re out in public in your slippers, even although these are actually a pair of £62 shoes from Office.
These shoes, however, are merely one example of this trend, which, according to the October issue of UK Vogue, is set to be huge this winter. Tom Ford, Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo have also designed slipper-style shoes for winter, and they all bear a more than passing resemblance to those old velvet slippers your grandad used to wear to smoke his pipe in of an evening. (Well, some of them do. The Louboutins are spike-covered leopard skin, and we don’t expect many grandpas wore that, although you never know.) Despite this, Vogue touts these shoes are the perfect “day to night” footwear choice, suitable for both men and women.
Are they suitable for YOU, though, we want to know? Will you be rocking the “slippers as shoes” look this winters, or do you believe that slippers should be slippers, shoes should be shoes, and never the twain should meet, because only ugliness can come of such a crossover?
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Learning Curve dress
£218, Anthropologie
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Oh, that Jean-Charles de Castlebajac! What a jolly japester he is, to be sure! Last year, for instance, he was all about the muppets. This year? Well, this year he’s drawn inspiration from South Park, with a range of tops and dresses featuring Cartman, Kenny and co.
Now, we tend to view things like this in the same way we view any other kind of novelty clothing (the dress like a toddler trend, holiday sweaters, those Flintstones-themed pieces Jeremy Scott tried to sell us last year…), i.e. we’ll smile politely when you try to convince us how “wacky” and “zany” and downright “kuyuuute” it all is, but we’ll be secretly glad it wasn’t us who paid £270 for a dress covered in cartoon characters.
If, however, you love South Park enough to want to wear it as well as watch it, this collection is available at Colette: click here to see more of it, but don’t forget to come back and tell us what you thought!
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We know bikini season is already a thing of the past here in the Northern hemisphere, but we’ve had our beady eyes on this retro style stripe bikini from Topshop for a few days now, and have noticed that it’s selling out fast online, so we figured it was our duty to inform you of its existence, just in case you have a winter sun break planner or, er, need something to wear in the jacuzzi at the gym.
We love the retro shape of this, from the figure-flattering (on some figures, at least) high-waisted bottoms, to the nautical stripes, which are just begging to be worn with bright red lipstick and a pair of cat’s eye sunglasses. If you don’t have a good reason to wear it now, well, you can’t start planning for next summer soon enough, can you?
Click here to see if there are any left in your size: if you’re out of luck, don’t despair – this is still available in-store.
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Pale pink ruffle front chiffon dress
£55, Lipsy
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You know the rules by now: you must choose one of the items above to wear, or you die. And no, death is not really an option, so which pair of pants will it be? The fruit and flowers hipsters (with the oranges, daisies and whatever the purple circles are)? Or the lilac snakeskin print?
Make your choice and tell us in the comments!
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