I’m glad someone has designed something that wipes clean for Coachella gals.
Mom, this is Janice, don’t call her my girlfriend, she doesn’t like labels. She only wears thrift shop clothing, refuses to make eye contact with republicans and only eats raw food she has personally met before it was harvested. We’re in love.
I made having all the special textile loving feelings right now.
Arden, the ghost everyone just ignores.
This totally screams ‘class picture day’. I am seeing it framed on paneling.
Yes, please. Hold the satyr clogs though.
That black band of fabric at the crotch feels out of place- although a little more opacity wouldn’t ruin this look.
This is one of those ‘it matched before I hit office lighting’ moments for me.
Don’t you look at me like that Eunice- now you MARCH back upstairs and put the slip on- we’re going to be late for brunch!
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Pretty Grievances 
I get the fabrics, I get the nature theme but so many of these looks were around 30 years ago especially the “class picture day”. With all of them I am trying to picture real women with curves wearing them and it doesn’t work. Just hoping that satyr shoes and socks don’t become a thing!
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It’s a limp salute to the 70’s.
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My overall impression is ‘droop’. Well the last one perked up a bit but some of the others seemed to a be a contest for the droopiest! I do like the fabric of the last dress, it has a 30’s look to it but the rest are more ‘sad’ 70’s.
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The fabric needs to be liberated.
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I’d like to liberate most of the fabrics. Perhaps not the oilcloth. And I’d like to be tall and thin enough to wear the onesie with enormous patte d’elephant trouser legs in pale birdie. Can’t understand the Sunday School Ghost number, oh dear it’s so very wan.
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Ghost frock is like something you’d find in miss havishams trousseau-
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Her trousseau was nicer-even after all those years…
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I actually like these. I’m a bit old fashioned though. Slips would definitely be required for a couple of them.
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I like a lot of the pieces, but together it’s odd and sepia and kind of sad. Like my class pictures!
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Most of it is fairly quirky, could do with a bit of tweaking/remixing. Also, I have never liked neck bows.
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These are hideous! If they really want the 70s look, they need to find some nice vintage crimpolene. What’s with the handbags, banging against the ribs? That would last, like, 5 minutes.
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It’s how my mom always told me tools my purse on the subway- so no one could grab it!
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Yea, but, weren’t your purse straps a bit longer? No? I like and wear the cross body look, but, like, longer.
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I keep a juice box with a very short straw in my evening bag. I dehydrate easily.
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@Felicia: as it happens, I have a lovely length of Mary Quant crimplene. Printed along selvage is the proud declaration: ‘ICI crimplene’ with the name of the fabric (Leo) and the famous Mary Quant logo.
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Drool!!
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Wow. As that’s a collector’s item, I guess you don’t feel compelled to make something out of it. You should post a pic of that.
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I’d like to see that!
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Pretty please pictures!
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Well, Valentino is not what Valentino once was. They do seem rather nostalgic to me, and one has to wonder if the designer was looking through mom’s old class photos. And yes, I think I do have a photo of me in one those sweater vests from picture day…
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I’m not sure Valentino has any relation to Red Valentino- I hope!!!
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Individually, a lot of these pieces are quite wearable. I love the print of the first skirt and like the jacket ‘Janice’ is wearing. As ever, though it’s the styling that is off.
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So so off.
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I really like the first two looks, and the bag in the last photo. Altogether not completely cringe-worthy, and the colors were nice. A few bad apples in there, though.
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It’s very Dakota Fanning….
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She looks like she’s got a stick up her butt. Physically. Don’t know about personality.
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That was just what the stylist told her to imagine. There is a law suit pending.
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As always, you are absolutely wonderful. I’m waiting for the next sartorial critique of a Jean Harlow film, you now have fans in France. The rest of the world is waiting…. your oyster, etc. xxoo
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Fun to read as usual, but, you know, I actually really like these images!
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Easy to incorporate some of them into the wardrobe-
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I think I should have kept my jeans from my youth. Well… Except for not being able to fit in them!
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Mine could be a wall hanging- but not a wardrobe staple!
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Some very odd pairings of pieces, but on their own they would be eminently wearable. I am having trouble with the bags hitched under the armpits…
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Those are troubling!
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I’m not hating this lot. Styling is yucky but enough to like. I may have to lie down now.
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Those skirts make me strangely excited…
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You love a mural, don’t you?
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When my daughter wears her sling bags that short I am usually the one sending her upstairs before we are late for brunch. I guess I have a lot to be thankful for, those silly short slings would be the least of problems. Fantastic fabrics, though…
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I’m just thrilled that they aren’t naked underneath the see-through pieces! I’m a staunch slip supporter but this is a great step forward (or backward, but in a good way) for the fashion world.
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It is a hopeful sign.
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