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Sartorial Similes
“…like getting the news that your father has died, but on a novelty phone that’s shaped like a hot dog”.
Writer Caitlin Moran wrote the above in this Saturday’s Times Magazine feature titled “What happens when a real woman wears catwalk clothes’, describing the feeling you get when trussed up to the nines in high-fashion gear when something life-like happens to you and you are left looking, well, like someone ‘being dumped while [they have] a Play School top on”.
Moran’s article was part of the voluminous swell of fashion and dress talk as a result of the concurrence of two events last weekend; London Fashion Week and the Baftas.
The Baftas were pretty underwhelming and not a little depressing for some reason (probably Jonathan Ross and the expectation that Avatar would probably win everything and the global economic climate, why not throw that in). However the appearance of Rebecca Hall in this:
proved Moran’s point. Caught in a snap shot, this isn’t so bad. However, in motion, while reading an autocue, opening an envelope or looking right and then up it was hard to behold and I quickly changed the channel to avoid witnessing whatever it was that was about to happen to her in it. It was quite like Morticia Addams engaging in a scrum at the Superbowl. Or paying the bill with a Lady Gaga claw-hand.
This is much more like it:
I reckon I could happily go foraging for sprouts in Waitrose wearing this. (Louise Goldin)
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