Style On Trial: Malloni’s shirt with “boob window”

A Shirt With a Window

Awesome! A shirt with a window in it to let the girls peek out! What could be better than that?

Before you’re tempted to answer, “Er, a shirt WITHOUT a window?”, hear us out: this Malloni creation is actually much less offensive than some of the clothes with windows we’ve shown you recently, not least because it’s so clearly designed to be worn over the top of something. It could also make an interesting way to show off a pretty top but still keep your arms covered, if you so desired.

On the other hand, it does look a bit like an item of clothing that’s had something bad happen to it: something perhaps involving a sharp pair of scissors, or simply getting dressed in the dark.

Oh, WE don’t know. Is this a crime of fashion? Is it edgy and directional? You decide…

Posted on March 29, 2010

Mesh front sweater from Topshop: a window on your breasts!

Oh look, it’s a window for your boobs! Never again will they be forced to hide themselves away behind pesky fabric, and miss out on what’s happening in the world, for they will both see and be seen from behind the mesh panel of this Topshop sweater! Awesome!

OK, let’s be sensible for a minute: obviously this sweater isn’t actually supposed to be worn with nothing underneath (or, we would hope, with just your regular underwear underneath, either), so what do you think of it? Is it actually quite an interesting idea, allowing you to combine the practicality of a sweater with something a little more exciting underneath? Is it the ideal solution to those days when it’s too cold to wear your favourite, strappy top on its own, but you don’t want to have to hide it under knitwear? Or is it just a sweater with a pointless window in it? Tell us!

Posted on February 18, 2010

The ‘Skirts With Windows’ movement reaches its natural conclusion with Topshop’s mesh seam skirt

This is what happens when you allow the skirts with windows we showed you last week to exist unchecked.

First there was Boutique’s maxi skirt, with a “window” from the knee down. It was ugly, but not indecent. We decided to let it live. Then there was Karl Lagerfeld’s mini skirt with window on the thighs. It, too, was ugly, and it also started to ring the alarm bells, because once you’ve allowed something like that to exist, you’ve just paved the way for … Topshop’s mesh seam skirt! Which is basically just all window, not so much skirt, isn’t it? Topshop obviously looked at the other two examples, thought, “We can do better than that!”, and this is what they came up with. It’s funnier when viewed from the back, but the front is exactly the same:

Of course, if this was meant to be an UNDERSKIRT, that would be a different matter altogether. That’s what we thought it was, at first, and we were OK with that. It’s not, though: it’s in the “skirts” section rather than the “lingerie” one, and, well, it’s the kind of thing Topshop do, isn’t it? How do you think they expect us to wear it, though? Presumably NOT as shown on the mannequin, but … HOW? Gwyneth Paltrow style, perhaps? We shudder to think. If you have a way to wear it, though:

a) Please, do tell!

b) Buy it here, for £22

Posted on January 19, 2010

Sweater with boob windows. Nice.

boob windows Sweater with boob windows. Nice. This sweater wouldn’t ordinarily have attracted the attention of The Fashion Police, because as far as fashion offences go this is only a minor infraction.

The thing is, though, the Chief of Police is short. Every sweater she ever buys, therefore, sits much lower than it’s supposed to, and she knows a lot of other women who are in the same unfortunate position.

All we’re saying is that we’d really hate to see this sweater on one of those women. Especially if they’d decided to go bra-less underneath it…

Posted on December 5, 2008