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Archive for the ‘Skirts’ Category
Monday, September 7th, 2009
 What do you mean “old lace curtain/tablecloth loosely tied a the waist”? That right there is a $913 skirt, we’ll have you know! And who cares if it could only ever really be useful as a beach cover-up, and even then people will wonder why you brought a curtain to the beach, and you’ll be terrified about getting it dirty? It’s DESIGNER, dontchya know?
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to source some, er, old lace curtains. For completely unrelated reasons.
Friday, August 28th, 2009
As we’ve noted several times now, this winter is going to have more than its fair share of sequins: they’ve been popping up on shoes, jackets, leggings, jumpsuits, you name it. They’ve also been appearing on skirts like the one above, whihc is by Rare, and so, for this Style Challenge, we’re asking you to show us what you’d wear with this skirt. Build an outfit around it using Polyvore and then post the link in the comments box: but before you do, read the Rules of the Game, which you’ll find below.
Have fun!
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
You know what we love about skirts? We love the fact that you always know where you are with a skirt. The fact that, no matter how ugly a skirt is, at least it can never be as bad as a pair of harem pants. Or, indeed, have a dropped…. oh. Sorry, our mistake…
Dhotti skirt, $575, Shopbop.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
We should probably begin this post by pointing out that the skirt you see before you doesn't have ACTUAL panniers in it to make it stick out at the hips like that. Or not so far as we know, anyway. It just looks like it does, which may be almost as bad, depending on your point of view.
This style of skirt is slowly gaining prominence in the fashion word at the moment, and you've probably noticed some examples here on this very site. You should expect to see even more of them in the stores soon, because skirts with giant hips are being touted as one of the "big" (no pun intended) looks for this winter. One the one hand, we guess it will help make your waist look smaller. On the other, though, and at the risk of stating the obvious, it will do this at the expense of making your hips look bigger. Much bigger.
Is it worth the trade-off, we wonder? Will you suffer inflated hips for the sake of a smaller (looking) waist, or would you rather just retain your natural proportions?
If you're going for the former option, and would like to do so in this very skirt, it's £34.99 and you can buy it at River Island.
By now our regular readers will be well aware of The Fashion Police position on clothes-that-are-pretending-to-be-other-clothes: these items are dastardly impostors, and we've rarely met an impostor item we didn't want to arrest.
It will come as no surprise, then, to learn that a skirt that's pretending to be a tuxedo would cause us to raise our eyebrows, if not our handcuffs. What really surprises us about this skirt, however, is the fact that it's on sale for £10. Surely it's not worth that much?
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
This guest post was submitted by Ashley Reiner. Ashley writes…
Not new to The Fashion Police by any means, Rojas has done it again. What they call a “drape skirt,” in fact looks like leftover fabric stuck to the sides of the skirt.
Which leaves us to wonder: who on earth would this look flattering on? No one, that’s who. Even those with flawless bodies will still risk looking like they have fat deposits only on their hips.But, if you’re still not convinced, then you can find this picnic cloth skirt for $80 at Karmaloop.
Author Bio:
Ashley Reiner is currently a fashion design student in Houston, Texas. Saying she has a love for fashion would be an understatement. Follow her blog at: http://www.examiner.com/x-6358-Houston-Fashion-Trends-Examiner.
Cage skirts have been hugely popular across the fashion blogosphere over the last couple of years, and in the "real world" too, if this £45 cage skirt by Topshop Boutique is anything to go by: it sold out within a couple of days, so presumably there are lots of people currently walking around wearing one of these.
What we want to know is, are you one of them?
This skirt is, of course, much less alarming than it may look at first glance, because it's supposed to be worn over something else (leggings, other skirts, etc) rather than by itself, although we wouldn't be AT ALL surprised to see some people try and wear it on its own. Yes, Lady Gaga, we're looking at you.
What say you, readers: will you be working the cage skirt this season, or do you think it should be locked in a cage instead?
OK. Now, we have no idea who came up with this design first, but we think we're going to have to place both River Island and New Look on a warning here, because seriously. Seriously. Is it just us, or do these look like lampshades from a particularly cheap bordello?
If we absolutely had to wear one of these, we think we'd go for the New Look version which, at £20, is £10 cheaper than River Island's attempt, and also much less.. ruffled. We're just going to cross our fingers, though, and hope nothing DOES happen to force us to wear one of these: what about you?
Do not adjust your sets, readers, this is not just a large, black dot, it is, in fact, a skirt. And as such, it's in clear contravention of Section 6 of The Fashion Police Code: the section which states that items of clothing should not be able to have the word "balloon" used to describe them. Ever.
If you're thinking it might look better on, though, let us disabuse you of that belief with the image you'll find under the jump…
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Remember hems? Remember when they were straightforward and unfussy? Those days are gone. These days we sometimes struggle to find dresses that don't have what's known as a "hitched" hemline – something you can see illustrated in the image above.
The hitch skirt or dress is a close relation of the puffball: it creates a skirt with a lot of volume, and a much "rounder" shape than most other styles, although all hitched dresses are not created equal, and some are more "hitched" than others – as you can also see above.
What does everyone think of this trend? Is it a welcome change from boring old straight hems, or is it too close to the puffball for comfort? Tell us!
Stone hitch skirt, £28,Dorothy Perkins, Green crochet hitch dress, £38, Dorothy Perkins, ruffle hitch up dress, £28, New Look, Bryony hitch dress, £160, All Saints, check hitched mini skirt, £15,Miss Selfridge
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