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This shirt is described as a “Student’s Shirt” by the website which is selling it.
Now, we know students tend not to have a lot of cash to buy new clothes all the time, but this is ridiculous, no?
Also ridiculous: the £780 price tag. Ouch.
Click here to investigate further.
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For the next in our series of Fashion Police inspired Halloween costume ideas, we present… The Fashion Criminal!
Now, we COULD give you a list of suggested items to use for this costume… or we could just direct you to our fashion crimes archive. Or to any street, in any city around the world, where you will find endless inspiration from the fashion criminals who pass you by. If you really need some ideas, though, the items which are arrested most often here at TFP include:
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Are you sick of reading the phrase “It’s almost Halloween!” yet? We are. It’s too bad, though, because we’re going to subject you to it a few more times this week, as we share with you some Halloween Costume ideas which will allow you to express your love of fashion – or your fear of it, if you prefer. After all, what could be scarier than some of the fashion trends we’ve showcased here over the years? We rest our case.
We’re kicking off with our personal favourite: The Fashion Blogger. It’s our favourite because, as fashion bloggers ourselves, let’s just say we didn’t have to look too far for our inspiration here… (Also, and for the avoidance of any doubt, please note that we’re not saying there’s anything wrong with wearing any of these items – well, except maybe the hipster glasses – just that they’re things we associate with fashion bloggers.)
You will need:
1. Hipster glasses.
You will find these almost anywhere. If all else fails, head to the supermarket, buy a pair of those non-prescription reading glasses, and poke the lenses out. Remember that when it comes to hipster glasses, “The bigger, the better” should be your maxim.
2. A topknot
Take the opposite approach to the hipster glasses: you want the topknot as small and tight as possible for true fashion blogger effect.
3. Macarons
They’re the new cupcakes, dontchya know?
4. Fashion blogger clothes
We’ve used a pair of trashed cutoffs to illustrate this part of the outfit, but really anything goes. Things you may want to consider include: colorblocking, layering, “arm parties”, Modcloth dresses – let your imagination run wild here.
5. Jeffrey Campbell ‘Lita’ boots
If you actually ARE a fashion blogger, you’ll already own these. If you’re not, and you don’t want to buy them (and we don’t blame you: it would be like selling your soul to Satan, wouldn’t it?), any pair of super-clunky shoes will do.
6. Boyfriend-with-a-camera
Your BFWAC should photograph you all night. If you can’t find someone willing to do this (and this time we don’t blame THEM), simply set up a tripod and pose in front of it: voila!
7. An iPhone
Live-Tweet the entire party. Because it doesn’t count if it’s not recorded on the internet, you know?
Fashion Blogger Behaviour for Added Authenticity:
Just to make your Fashion Blogger Halloween Costume that little bit more realistic, you may want to adopt the following behaviourisms for the duration of your costume party:
1. Adopt a pigeon-toed stance at all times.
2. Tell anyone who will listen that your outfit is “remixed”.
3. And also “thrifted”.
4. Touch your hair, stare at your feet, or stare wistfully into space. Do this aaaaallll night.
Did we miss anything?
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Seriously. SERIOUSLY, people.
Not even Jeffrey Campbell, Enemy of Feet, would think these were a good idea. NOT EVEN JEFFREY. And when Jeffrey Campbell would look at a shoe and think, “You know, I think these may be a little too ugly…” you know you’re in trouble.
These look like boats:
Sinister, terrifying boats. Like, if fashion was a horror movie, the bad guys would sail around inside giant versions of these shoes, wouldn’t they? And we’ll tell you what: THEY PROBABLY DO. This is what we’re up against, people. This is what the evil masterminds at the head of the Fashion Crime Ring are capable of. Are you scared? Because you should be.
Also: if they look this bad in the product shot, just imagine what they look like on feet! Oh, right: we don’t have to imagine it:
Yikes.
Flatforms: they just don’t need to exist, do they? (If you disagree, click here to buy them.)
P.S.
Have you voted yet?
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(Image: J Crew Spring 2011 campaign)
A couple of years ago, we put together our directory of online clothing stores in the UK. Now we want to do the same for the US, but there’s just one problem: we need your help!
Not being US residents, we’re not quite as familiar with the online offerings across the ponds as we are with those in dear old Blighty. That’s where you come in. Leave us a comment with a link to your favourite online fashion shops in the United States, and our officers will check it out: simple!
There are just three rules:
1. The store must ship to the United States.
2. It must offer online shopping: so that fabulous little boutique around the corner doesn’t count unless it has an ecommerce website.
3. It must stock clothing of some kind.
Oh, and our spam filter sometimes overreacts when it sees lots of links being posted, so don’t worry if your comment doesn’t appear immediately: it’ll just have gone to the spam folder, and we’ll dig it out as soon as we can!
Speaking of spam, comments on this post will close in a couple of days, to prevent us getting spammed to death, so if you have some stores to share, speak now!
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Would Victoria Beckham look like a golf club in flat shoes? Be honest: we’ve all wondered, haven’t we?
We’re about to find out, though, because apparently Victoria has been “banned” from wearing high heels for the duration of New York Fashion Week. That’s not on Fashion Police orders, we hasten to add – we wouldn’t be that cruel – but on the orders of Victoria’s doctor, who says she risks aggravating a slipped disc she suffered following the birth of Harper Seven last month, if she doesn’t switch to flats for a little while at least.
Hopefully Victoria will comply with this advice: not just because she’d be an idiot to put fashion before health, of course, but because we’ll be fascinated to see how she copes without her usual stilts.
According to a vague, possibly fictional, “source”, Victoria’s main concern is that she will look “like a golf club” in flats, and she has drafted in Christian Louboutin to help make sure this doesn’t happen. We hope you’ll all join us on Golf Club Watch 2011, coming to a screen near you, this September…
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We can all agree that this is wrong, can’t we?
It’s Kate Moss’s famous “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” quote, printed on a t-shirt. A t-shirt for children. Because THAT’S a really healthy message for kids, isn’t it?
If you think it’s bad enough to be emblazoning this particular message on a shirt for little children, though, how about the onesie version? And no, we’re not referring to the ubiquitous adult onesie, here, but the ones for babies:
Luckily, the Advertising Standards Agency agreed that this kind of message isn’t suitable for childrens’ clothing and have banned adverts for it from appearing on custom shirt site Zazzle.
“Because we considered the ad could condone or encourage an unsafe practice or result in physical, mental or moral harm to children, we concluded that it was irresponsible,” said a spokesperson. “We told Zazzle to ensure future ads were not irresponsible and, particularly where they were addressed to or depicted children, did not contain anything that was likely to condone or encourage an unsafe practice or to result in their physical, mental or moral harm.”
We’re just amazed that Zazzle needed to be told this…
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