The New York Times calls them "trapeze dresses" and says that they're designed to show off a woman's clavicles, of all things. But come on. A lot of these potato-sack dresses don't reveal the collarbone. In fact, the best of them don't and aren't even designed with that in mind. Sure, there are counterexamples—hot!—but these dresses, as a family, don't highlight the neck any more than others.
Also, it's not as if the women modeling these dresses got skinnier for this season. Rail thin may be in, but then rail thin always has been, right? so you can't draw decent conclusions about what women are doing with their bodies from the runways. Highlighting the clavicle, I dunno. But in any case, it's gratifying to know that the fashionista at the Times agrees with me, contra my commenters.
Posted by Kriston at May 11, 2007 4:26 PMKudos to Viktor & Rolf for taking "trapeze" aerially. Fashion: definitely in need of more armature.
Posted by: Kriston at May 11, 2007 5:06 PMthe "best" of these dresses? oh, kriston, you actually posted a muumuu this time.
Posted by: k at May 13, 2007 1:35 PM"clavicles, of all things" amen.
I have a pretty extreme gym habit and I am still not buying those dresses.
There is something disturbingly babydoll about them. I don't want to look like a babydoll. I have degrees and debt.
"Dressing the Dolls" part 2, section 7 of Faludi's Backlash
Posted by: anok at May 13, 2007 11:29 PMThanx for the effort, keep up the good work Great work, I am going to start a small Blog Engine course work using your site I hope you enjoy blogging with the popular BlogEngine.net.Thethoughts you express are really awesome. Hope you will right some more posts.
Posted by: Dopalacze at March 8, 2011 9:04 PMI am very enjoyed for this blog. Its an informative topic. It help me very much to solve some problems. Its opportunity are so fantastic and working style so speedy. I think it may be help all of you. Thanks.
Posted by: Tracey Werth at April 23, 2011 9:26 PMTha's fantastic, i in no way believed about this
Posted by: Cherie Luthi at May 12, 2011 4:25 AMI've recently started a weblog, the knowledge you present on this website has helped me tremendously. Thanks for your whole time & work.
Posted by: colon cleanse reviews at June 1, 2011 5:00 PM
