Think On It

Predictable

August 23rd, 2007

Waaay long ago I said women would want to wear a look like Marc Jacobs showed last winter. It was ladylike, to use a damning phrase, but a bit edgy and beautifully colored. It’s grown up and not the least tied to former teen-aged celebrities, nor yet the heiresses who are famous for being gossip rag snatchers.

Now the New York Times says so too.
Today, The Telegraph UK chimed in.
Have a look and then read some of the print coverage. Everybody is saying it now, that we are ready to get some coverage. We are ready to wear clothes we can walk in without something falling out or popping over the neckline. We are ready to feel like women instead of bratty and slutty girls. Those of us for whom those were ludicrous aims in the first place can breathe a sigh of relief.

I have never been sure how extreme sexiness or even sluttiness crept into fashion houses who get thousands for a skirt, because there just can’t be very many girls young enough to wear the look who also have the money to buy it. Yes, it was attention getting for a while, and attention is what runway clothes are about, all the better to sell the cosmetics and perfumes that really make the profits, but somehow a lot of females took it seriously as the way they were supposed to look. After a while you hardly notice anymore that Las Vegas and the red light district seem to have gathered at the mall. Perfectly normal women were talking about where to buy boob tape. Women had to get bikini waxing to wear street clothes. Enough.

There may not be many who want to join me and Marc in hat world, but hats are suddenly news. Simple clothes are bringing on fantastic accessories. Tailoring is the great news and it is great news for you, because tailoring is how fashion uses architecture to show what’s good about you and disguise what is unfortunate.

In short, at last you have everyone’s permission to be beautiful.

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