I'm not really sure about clothing these days--I've had trouble finding stuff that I like and that doesn't look as if it were made for a teenager, so I'm much more aware of clothes lately than I had been in the past. So, here in London, it's been rather amusing to see the fashion choices that people make. I know that London is supposed to be on the cutting edge of fashion and trends and about two years ahead of the U.S. in that regard, but honestly, I fail to see anything that great here. I'm going to try to check out TopShop and H&M to look around, but the stuff on the streets has by and large been heinous.
Naturally, since it is London, there are a fair amount of tourists, so I do try to keep their unfortunate appearances from clouding my opinion of Londoners. Some of the more, um, special, tourist moments thus far:
1. a woman who had to be at least my age, maybe older, wearing a wee denim mini--a good six inches above her knee--with leggings. If you are old enough to have worn leggings the first time, then you are too old to be wearing them this time, at least with a mini-skirt, however I could have even forgiven her that had she not been wearing that mini-skirt in about a size 18 or so, which made it look like she had a giant denim box wrapped around her body and, far worse, she had on a very form-fitting tee (I hesitate to say baby tee because I think this one was just a regular tee stretched to the limit) that was one.inch.too.short. There was visible fat roll peeking out from the top of the skirt--actually protruding is more like it. It was just horrid.
2. Loads upon loads of white boots. I think every European in the UK is wearing some form of atrocious white ankle (or just a bit higher) boots.
3. a backless halter with a skirty bottom on another person over the age of 20 and over 140 pounds.
4. fishnets with some sort of patterned hose under them. I thought it was leg hair at first.
5. shiny things. Lots of silver belts, gold hairclips, and other accessories all with fake shiny finishes.
We're headed to Covent Garden today, so there should be a boatload of other fashion crimes to witness.
3 comments:
What, are you in London or something?
for the day.
1. Size 18 mini-skirt with leggings has to be much better than a size 18 skirt without the leggings.
2. Oh great...I bet Shelby will have a pair before this time next year to go with her red ankle boots.
3. Oh thanks!!! Mention of backless halter on a older larger woman just brings back flashbacks of Lakisha's dress this week. It wasn't a pretty sight from the behind.
4. Shh...don't let Shelby see this. She already wears the fishnet and patterned tights. She just hasn't thought about wearing them together yet.
5. Can you ever have too many accessories and can you ever have too much shiny???? (purely rhetorical question...)
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