Fashion Heaven & Hell: the shoes that fit and the jeans that reveal
The thing I like most about fashion is that almost all of it passes me by without me ever noticing.
I’m not sure that would be true about the new kind of trousers some fashion designer has dreamed up recently - me not noticing, I mean:
It’s a design for the really slim or really brave woman - ultra low-rise jeans with a built-in bikini or thong. The Brazilian-made trousers would not look out of place among the bronzed bodies on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro but their effect on the British high street has yet to be seen.
The jeans sit extremely low on the hip and leave little to the imagination. The tight-fitting garments are held up by the elasticated black thong or denim bikini ribbon, tied at the side. Sandra Tanimura, a designer from the clothing company Sanna, came up with the idea after customers asked for ever lower trousers but then had difficulty keeping them up. She said: “We specialise in making low-rise trousers and our customers wanted them to get even lower. It was very difficult meeting these demands without the trousers falling down. I came up with the idea of using the bikini strings to let the trousers hang really low without falling.”
I have to say that it sounds more practical than it looks. Not that it looks bad - just a bit weird. But then that’s true about most things fashionable. Fashion is not even meant to be comfortable, let alone practical.
Though there are always exceptions. Take this latest idea: a new type of children’s shoe that’s meant to save the buyer some serious money.
I’m sure it won’t deliver the Good Little Capitalist Award to its producers but I am sure that there will be many parents who will be quite happy to declare them saints:
A new range of children’s shoes mean parents no longer have to rush to the shops every time their little ones’ feet grow - because the shoes can grow with them. Inchworm shoes can extend by one full shoe size so when kids’ feet grow, all parents need to do is simply adjust the shoe to fit.
They are altered by simply pressing a button on the side of the shoe and pulling the toe out to the required length. Parents know what size they have pulled the stylish trainers out to by looking at the numbers on the heel. Each pair of shoes offers three different sizes in half-size increments. The shoes are available in the UK through Scottish based distributors Fat Shoes Day.
Insert your own ‘Scots are sooo cheap!’ joke here…
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July 30th, 2008 at 21:47
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