Fashion Police Glossary: the Shacket(t)

Rocha John Rocha Navy dual shackett jacket, £65 at Debenhams

Nope, not a “sheer jacket”, as per the usual pattern of Fashion Police terminology, but a jacket that shares elements in common with a shirt. A shirt-jacket. A shacket, see?

Shacket: A cross between a shirt and a jacket, similar to the apparel of a builder’s.

With us so far? Because this is where things began to get confusing over at Fashion Police HQ…

River Island’s brown (really?) chiffon (perhaps…) flower (so that’s what they are!) shackett (hmmph): £39.99, available here, and also in white.

Ignoring everything that’s wrong with the description of this piece (not to mention the spelling of “shackett”) can anyone inform us which parts of it resemble a shirt? It all looks suspiciously jacket-shaped to us…

The shacket got its first foothold in 2009, championed by Topman as the must-buy season update from their AW09 menswear collection. Its crossover into womenswear doesn’t yet seem to have taken a firm grip, with many designers and stores prefering to stick to the far less confusing “lightweight jacket” and “heavyweight shirt” rather than throw yet another dubious fash-pack term into the already heady mix.

The Fashion Police insist that the term “shacket” be allowed to fade back into the ether, and that all sh— affix compound words be run past them in the future.

Posted on January 13, 2011

Louise Gray hand silk screened devore drape trousers

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Louise Gray, you can give your trousers as much of a mouthful of a name as you like, but to us, they are still going to look like they lost a fight with the tumble dryer. Contrast textile detailing with frayed edges you say? We say dryer lint. These pant just look a mess, and ASOS are asking £496 for them. That’s the good news though. They were asking £620.

What do you think though? Ultra stylish pants or tatty mess? If you want them, they can be yours from ASOS.

Posted on January 13, 2011

Dress of the Day: Lanvin asymmetric washed satin gown

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Lanvin asymmetric washed satin gown
£2,245, Net-a-Porter
(Click here to order)

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Posted on January 12, 2011

Designer on a Budget: Polka dot shift dresses by Marc Jacobs and Zara

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Now, we’re not necessarily saying we’d buy or wear either of these two dresses, and we’re certainly not saying they’re identical in every single way.

What we WILL say, however, is that if a sudden hankering for a polka dot shift dress did happen to come over us, we know which one we’d choose.

We’re not going to tell you, though. No, we want to hear which one YOU’D choose instead: designer or high street? Do tell…

(Click here to buy the Marc Jacobs dress and here for the Zara version)

Posted on January 12, 2011

Shoe porn: Valentino studded leather and lace pumps

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Leather, lace, studs and peep-toes – you’d think the multitude of design features would be too much for one little shoe to bear…

But it’s not. Oh no – these little beauties are so, well, beautiful, that they can pull off the whole kit-n-kaboodle AND a couple of bows to boot!

We hereby confiscate them as potentially dangerous. What with the studs and stilettoes, and the fact that, were they ours, we’d want to be wearing them day-in, day-out, doubtlessly resulting eventually in a broken ankle…

Valentino studded leather and lace pumps, £580 from Net-a-Porter.

Posted on January 12, 2011

Mullet Gathered back cardigan at Next

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Yes, folks, it’s the mother of all mullet garments: innocuous black cardigan in the front, strange butterfly fancy dress costume in the back. Add to the lack of a proper back that the fact that it is practically see through, and it is going to be a long while before it is warm enough to use this as your cover up.

What do you think, though? If you can see the benefits of a cardi like this though, or you just have a penchant for dressing up as a butterfly, it will cost you £32 here.

Posted on January 12, 2011

Chopped off pyjama pants by 3.1 Philip Lim

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So you’re taking a nap on the couch in your silk jacquard pyjama pants and along comes a bratty little child with a large pair of scissors and hacks a good 3 or 4 inches off the bottom, leaving all the edges frayed and the pants flood length. And then you wake up and realise that these are not pyjama pants, they’re regular pants, and you bought them like that ridiculously short length, frayed edges and all. And you paid $375 for them. What were you thinking?

What do you think though, readers? Do you agree with our assessment of these 3.1 Phillip Lim pants or do you like them? If you do, and you want to buy them, they are available at Shopbop.

Posted on January 12, 2011

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Posted on January 11, 2011