Ochre shift dress
£38, Miss Selfridge
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Dress of the Day: Ochre ponti shift dress from Miss Selfridge 
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Dress of the Day: Ochre ponti shift dress from Miss Selfridge
Wanted! Hybrid pencil dresses at ASOS
For reasons that aren’t particularly clear to us, our favourite (and not-so-favourite) fashion criminals have been keeping a low profile this week, which is good news in a way as the temporary cease-fire gives us more time to look at pretty dresses online.
The latest brand to catch our attention is called Hybrid, and has just started to be stocked at ASOS. We’re loving the fitted pencil dresses from this collection: good for work, but also perfect for parties, and we reckon Joan Holloway would approve, too, which is always a pretty good yardstick for us: WWJD – What Would Joanie Do? (Why, she’d buy the dresses, of course! They’re around £85 each and you can click here to buy from ASOS.com)
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Style on Trial: Topshop Exclusives faux fur sleeve boyfriend coat
At first glance we thought there were small animals protruding from the armholes of this coat. And that scared us a little bit.
Once we’d recovered and realised that those were the sleeves, we couldn’t decide whether we liked the coat or not. We’re used to seeing faux fur on the collar of coats, not on the sleeves. Do we want our winter coat to channel Ewok chic with furry arms? We’re not convinced we do.
What do you think though? Will faux fur sleeves catch on as an alternative to faux fur collars? Or are they just a bit weird?
You can buy the coat for £130 here.
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Biker chic gets breezy: DSQAURED2′s leather “trousers”
Call us pedantic if you will (at least two thirds of our force are fully-fledged editors, after all) but when someone says the word “trousers” to us we expect something that covers both legs, often individually, and well, usually something that grazes the ankle. Ok, with the application of the proviso “cropped”, we can forgive anything that falls below the knee. Either way, we do expect a tad more coverage that these “trousers” seem to offer.
Because really, who wears leather when it’s warm enough for shorts? Or if you prefer, who wears shorts when it’s cold enough for leather?
Also, what’s with the chopped off body-bag look around the hem of these babies – it really does offer the impression of a peeved ex-girlfriend who has taken the garden shears to her biker boyfriend’s best out of spite!
Perhaps you could pull these off? If so, you can pick them up for £396 at Yoox.com. Just don’t expect them to provide any hint of protection to the knee area if you come off your scooter…
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Dress of the Day: 3.1 Phillip Lim pink crystal embellished crystal dress
Phillip Lim pink crystal embellished dress
$725, Net-a-Porter
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Hips Don’t Lie: Ellery ‘Vain’ Skirted Leather Shorts
They’re short, leather, and have “wings” on each hip.
We think that just about covers it, don’t you?
(Click here to buy them)
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Tis the season to sparkle: Topshop Premium heavily embellished trousers
Everyone wants to dress to impress in the festive season, and there’s no way to make a statement quite as emphatically as adorning your lower body with sparkly sequins, right? In which case, Topshop Premium’s Heavily Embellished trousers are the answer to your party-season prayers!
Of course, all those packed-out Christmas parties, made all-the-warmer by the festive dancing, can get a little too toasty for some… But if you’re concerned about overheating in such heavily embellished garments, worry not, for Topshop have the answer!
Simply opt instead for their skimpier little sister, the Copper Sequined Dollar shorts!
Ahhh, Topshop, you think of everything!
Topshop Premium Heavily Embellished Wide Leg Trousers: £260 and Topshop Copper Sequined Dollar Shorts: £55.
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Ugly Prom Dress Alert: Camouflage and brown paper?
Yes folks, it’s prom season again with all those Christmas party and ball invitations about to come flooding in any moment. And what are you going to wear to your special event this year? How about this little number, which appears to be made from old army camouflage uniforms, and brown paper? With added sequins for that holiday pizazz! Just the thing, right? Jovani clearly think so as this is just one of their designs that features the brown paper-like fabric, and there are more featuring prints not dissimilar to the camouflage one shown here.
Sadly, this is only available to buy in stores, so bad luck if you’re not in the US. If you are in the US and you want this dress, you can check out the list of Jovani stockists here.
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