So instead I grab whatever is closest and that is the moment when the universe decides it’s time for fun and sends along someone who I don’t want to see. For a day when I need a hit of frock courage.įor when I decided that after three years of them hanging in my closet with their tag still attached, that I should actually wear them. Instead I try to save them for I’ve got something good to do. Because I have an irrational fear of wasting a good outfit on an average day. What about the Cue pink number reminiscent of Carrie Bradshaw’s hot pink number above? Nah … save it for a day when there are post-work drinks.īut no. Shall I go for one of the newly acquired and already much-loved Mister Zimi frocks? Nah … I’m just going to be sitting at my desk all day and that would be a waste. You’d think that after years of running into someone I secretly love/lust after/loathe while looking total bollocks (usually in some kind of stained or even worse … LYCRA) I’d have learnt my lesson and just dressed normally.Įspecially when my wardrobe contains so much potential. You know those moments in life when you know something good is going to. Closer to how I actually looked…Īnd that white jeans were not my greatest fashion choice-especially when the BBC kept doing zoomed-in aerial shots which made my thighs look somewhat familiar to Bridget Jones’ bottom sliding down the fireman’s pole. What Brooke Wore by Blonde Ambition October 21, 2013. The last time I wore such a sunny hue was while cheering on Leyton Hewitt at Wimbledon with the Fanatics and mum text (while watching from Australia) to tell me that yellow wasn’t my colour. This is mostly because it’s just a few shades darker than yellow, which is also not my colour. It’s fair to say, orange is not my colour. In orange.Īnd I’m not talking a pretty pinky orange, peach or soft and feminine apricot I’m talking witches hat ORANGE. While he was looking hot, I was more of a hot mess. Think McDreamy but with a touch of Hugh Grant’s floppy hair … not entirely floppy, just messy in a manly kind of way. Then, hours later-while sitting at my desk and far away from my wardrobe filled with dresses in various shades of blue, pink, red and stripes-I remembered that it was the day I was interviewing a very attractive man. Encuentra fotos de stock de Fashion Faux Pas e imágenes editoriales de noticias en Getty Images. Outfit complete … hurry it’s time to go (well, it was 10 minutes ago)! Singlet (that’s a vest for my UK readers). It was the kind of day when I was running late for work because I’d been trying to learn the dance moves to Salt N Pepa’s ‘Push It’ for my best friend’s hen’s night so I threw on the first clothes I could find. Well, last Friday wasn’t one of those days. You might pull on a killer pair of heels to add height and a bit of sex appeal or even brush your hair (I judge an event’s importance by whether I brush my hair or simply poke it with my fingers). The part I agree with (since I have no idea if all of Europe is aghast at our clothing) is our ugly attribute of wearing what we want without any regard for anther culture because, "I am on vacation and I will do what I want.You know those moments in life when you know something good is going to happen so you dress accordingly something in which you feel pretty, feminine or even damn hot. Our insistence on wearing what makes us comfortable - even if it makes those around us uncomfortable - is one of our less attractive attributes." The 'ugly American' stereotype is not far from the truth. "Europeans are aghast at the shorts, fanny packs and ill-fitting graphic t-shirts we wear into their glorious cathedrals. Unless it is a fitted capri, ala Grace Kelly, capris really don't look good on anyone. At malls, I am tempted to set up the equivalent of guns-for-cash and call through a bullhorn, "Throw your cargo capris in the flaming trash can," I would find it very cathartic but very hot beside the pyre given the ubiquity of the look." The Kardashian matriarch had her own fashion faux pas moment on a night out at Craigs in Los Angeles with her boyfriend Corey Gamble in 2017, Hollywood Life reported. and need only fit the waist and hips, letting the hem fall where it may. I maintain that it dominates the country because people hate shopping. "The baggy cargo capri is the single worst item of clothing in America today.It is flattering on no one. Tim Gunn's (of Project Runaway) has an interesting book called "The Fashion Bible." In it he says, I think all cultures commit some sort of fashion faux pas.
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