Stylish with Substance

This is an actual image and dress (and boots) on eLUXURY (affiliate-free). It's frightfully hilarious that they've set up the model to look like a DON'T from Glamour (with those black rectangular shades), as if this is more link bait than something to sell (and actually the product page is for the sweater).

The dress has two black fabric strips to cover her "bits" that happen to look like censor marks, and between them what appears to be pantyhose for her midriff.

The third crazy (but true???!) "straw" is the toe-less boots. WHY? WHY toeless boots?!

I really hope this is not what the future fashion holds, what with her angular hairstyle and ode to The Matrix sweater.

I feel like I'm in some horrible alternative reality right now, it's true. Is it???

poll closed.

If you both wish your jeans were as comfortable as long underwear and you're as skinny as a stick (especially if you're newly so) boy do I have the dream item for you: Jean-printed stretch leggings.

No, they're not denim. They're not even skinny jeans. They're ... better? No but they take the trend further. They're as tight as tight can be.

I wonder what jean-look camel toe looks like? Yeah, I'd opt for a wrap around the waist, kind of the reverse of the denim mini over leggings - you know, the right look for this trend.

Also note the store selling them, TopShop, doesn't display on model. Um .. l.o.l.??

Le Sigh.

Thanks, Fashion Police.

Are we wrong? What do you think?

Is black the new red & green, too?

I get e-mail updates from "the Obama camp" and apparently they're still sending me stuff even now. That's fine and all, and nevermind my e-mail hatred - this one was interesting. They're promoting a limited edition mug as the "Obama Holiday Mug" - thing is, it lacks any sign of any holiday whatsoever.

In fact, it's just black & simple and oozes deathly ominous vibes, not celebratory ones, which means I don't even think it's truly geared toward Obama fans honoring the president elect. It doesn't even seem suited for Martin Luther King day, let alone much but a funeral, therefore, and seems to only say that on Christmas morn', we'll still have Bush behind that huge White House lawn.

Come on, there could have been a tree - fair to both Christians and Pagans (the original reasoners of the season). But I suppose a tree does not "say" "Bush"?

You know the problem well, you can't block it from your mind. The low-long-hemmed unbuttoned jacket swinging away from the widest point of ample thighs/hips... Hilary Clinton and her "pantsuits" (more on that ridiculousness later)...

But it never happened, she never got a lifelong-style makeover from the gurus at What Not to Wear. What a picture, the secret footage, exactly like what I described above, the Clinton puns (there must be puns, I say) and... the bra fitting.

And now it's over. Not only might Hilary's political career be over, but she now has no hope of dressing her womanly body as it should. First legitimate female candidate for president of the United States?? Come on, she's not that female. (Her lack of humanity she increasingly displayed not withstanding, itself.)

What NOT to Wear: Old-Lady Pants Suits

What TO Wear: A nice pin-striped menswear suit. Hem cut at the actual hips (think where a baby rests against a woman's side, on occasion).

;-)

Clinton - forget flag pins, try on the stripes!

It's a sandal! It's a boot! It's .. sasquatch? How these shoes by Etro don't get less praise and more jabs than Uggs is beyond me. I didn't pay them much mind until I read recent reports saying these ... yes, these hair-like fringy tall shoes, are the IT shoe of Spring 2008.

Ummmm at least they conceal those missed patches??

Lewis Black and his gang won't need to debate on this issue, because the two crusaders of the dark side have teamed up to make this shoe:

Croc Mary Janes (in purple here) with Hannah's name on the foot strap and her likeness on the heel strap. Complete with holes, this is the brainless child of Satan and his young mistress.

Of course, how bad the Crocs' guilt goes lies within the question: are Crocs okay on Kids? But that Miley Cyrus is certainly dastardly in her world domination (and demon-ination). It's she I stand less!

What about you?

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For our first new poll now that we're BACK!: Which trend is as tired as an unposted-to blog / non-updated poll, itself???

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These pants go way far too beyond skinny jeans. I barely recognize them as being denim (don't they kind of resemble a blue heather fleece?) And then we get to those sneakers. Lindsay looks like her feet belong on a teenaged boy. That ensemble is an insult to her fantastic patchwork handbag.

By the way, I was out of the fashion game for a while, and now cannot find this bag anywhere after a day's research - can you name it or the designer?