I’m wondering if anyone else finds it odd that the one thing that drug stores keep under lock and key are razor blades.
Perhaps the increased fashion for beards and facial hair of various sorts has its vulgar Marxist explanation.
Adam receives the news of Barney’s Boston opening with a deserved raised eyebrow. How could you not, when the article so uncritically quotes beaming with Boutique Boosterism:
"I have a sense that Boston is coming of age, and Barneys is the big fat engagement ring that’s going to seal the deal," says Lisa Pierpont, a producer […]
It’s nice to see that someone else agrees with me: pink Red Sox caps have to go.
It’s that time of year again, when the rearguard fashion editor at LeftCenterLeft (i.e. me) takes on the worst fashion trends of the past year. And just to prove I’m not all piss and vinegar, I’ll include the notable positive trends, too.
Worst
Ponchos. I don’t know that I have anything to add to what Slate’s […]
In order to have something to wear to work, I recently picked up a Brooks Brothers shirt. Thing is, it’s my size; in fact the collar is too short to button even though the shirt’s a 16. But the rest is blousy, even huge, on me. Are Brooks Brothers’ shoppers really so overweight? A friend […]
No surprise, but from various news outlets we find out that Brown University has been recognized as the best-dressed Ivy and Harvard the worst. I’ve long been impressed with the off-the-runway attire of the semiotics majors - and the generally relaxed comfort in style of the (less fashionista) rest of the campus. What’s surprising is […]
From today’s roundup:
1) Burberry sales are up, remarkably so for a fashion retailer, at 13% over the last year. The source of their success? As the Guardian notes,
The story of the Burberry revival is a story of paradoxes…. “They’ve trodden the clever line between being very smart and Footballers’ Wives,” observes Alexandra Schulman, […]
The Herald picks up on the Oscar fashions this year to pronounce that curls are in, straight hair is out. The change can’t come soon enough in my book. By now the Ann Taylor-wearing, blonde-highlighted straight-haired clone look has had a stranglehold on every middle-management meat market (and the female half of the Apprentice contestants) […]
Has Janet’s boob ruined Oscar night? Maybe the 5-second time delay wasn’t the cause of the dull ceremony and tame acceptance speeches, but rather an emblem of the evening’s lack of the spontaneity I come to love in live television. This was the kind of ceremony the telecast’s producers dream of making - relatively hitch […]
I just returned from a trip to H&M where I was doing my bit for the Cambodian economy and stocking up for the oncoming cold winter weather. Given that the retailer has been complicit in trends that are at best questionable, I thought I’d reflect on the worst fashion trends of late. You can’t periodize […]