Huh, it looks like LOVE/HATE is turning into a regular Thursday feature. The question is whether I’ll be able to keep up with it, as details like that have a way of slipping my mind. I’ll do my best to remember, because if there was a “LOVE/HATE: The love/hate edition” I’d be in love, love, love. Seriously, reading your thoughts on the fashion at hand always makes my day.
But enough about you…let’s talk about pants. I’ve posted about pants a mere two times, but they’ve come up in the convo often. Just recently, one of y’all posted a link to a picture of an utterly fantastic pantsuit.
Unfortunately, I lost that link, so I’ll show you something else instead.
Whaddya think? Wow or bow wow? While Ashley Rowe of Miss Rowe did not intend for her designs to be worn as wedding wear, they certainly satisfy two important requirements. One, they’re pricey…the bustier alone costs $795. And two, the models have twisted themselves into unnatural positions and are scowling at the camera.
As to whether I like them, I’ll say this:
I like the idea. I like the look on ultra-skinny models. I like the fact that a forward thinking bride could list this among her day-of outfit options. I like the concept of a bustier with tails.
What I don’t like is what I see in my brain when I try to imagine myself in blazingly white skinny pants, and I’m not exactly what you’d call heavy. That said, I’m gonna guess that this isn’t exactly a realistic look for most people.
This poor girl looks too hungry to enjoy anything. She is making the same sulking face in both shots, which makes me wonder if the camera man is taunting her with a delicious turkey sandwich. Like, “C’mon honey, only 47 more outfit changes and you can have a glass of iced tea and half of this sandwich, yeah more anger and sadness, give it to me honey, nothing says white pant suit sophistication like a scrawny 17 year old, yeah, YEAH, do that thing with your shoulders and look like a suite of flesh just hanging willy nilly on some bones. PERFECT!” *snap*
I can’t even see the clothes, I can only see her haunted face and underfed stick legs. If she lived in Nigeria Sally Struthers would be showing up soon to save her village.
This particular look won’t work on anyone but the skinny models, unfortunately. A good pair of white trousers, maybe. I think that would have been a much more informal option, though. Would have worked well for my wedding, had I thought of it!
And why can’t models stand up straight anymore???
ZOMBIE WEDDING
Nothing says “Happy happy joy joy” like a depressed, angry starveling.
I don’t know that you need to be stick thin to wear white slim trousers – I’m a 10 and I have a pair and they look really good with the right top. Speaking of which, I’m hating on the top. Sorry, NtB. Maybe I wouldn’t hate it if she was standing up straight and had boobs to fill out the top of it, but even then, not my thing. But I could see the pants with something like this:
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=305491&CategoryID=35907
could be a great, casual, hip, comfortable wedding enseble.
Leah- I’m a 10 as well, and I know that I have yet to be able to squeeze my, erm, shapely thighs into anything involving the adjective slim. Perhaps it’s a build thing; I’m all hips and thighs with a smaller waist.
That being said, love the top, hate the bottom. But then, I’m not all that into skinny trousers.
I would think the cut of this outfit would be somewhat unforgiving to many figures, though I would think shape would ultimately be more important than the size that shape happens to be. I’ve been very thin. I’ve been very fat. I’m now moderately fat. At no point in my life would I have carried this one off well.
Still, on just the right woman who is not deliberately taking on the stance and facial expression of a suicidal gorilla, it could be quite fetching.
I have often made known here my love for Swishy Pants. I do believe that a pair of beautiful floaty Swishy Pants would make the perfect “woman with adult sized hips” pairing to the Bustier with Tails, yes?
It would almost mimic a floaty skirt when standing still but have all the drama and swishyness of pants when walking/moving. And imagine your shoe options!
I think I shall look into this “Bustier” idea for myself…..
I think the pants depend more on build than on weight. If you have amazing legs and a balanced figure, skinny pants look great. But my figure is like Emily’s, all hips and thighs, and even though I’m pretty slim (size 4) skinny pants look absolutely awful on me. They are not a forgiving look for the pear-shaped among us!
I do like the jacket on the left — not a huge fan of the bustier, though.
The model’s posture + her facial expression say to me, “I’ve just dislocated my shoulder, could you take me to the ER?”
I have hips from here to there (which, as you know, is not a short distance), and thus skinny pants are out for me. I like the jacket, though. Not too keen on the bustier, it’s too long — I learned my lesson about tails, because not only do I have nice curvy hips, I also have a nice curvy butt. You can’t do tails if your butt makes them stick straight out!
haha, great suits, but it always cracks me up when super skinny models stand all hunched like that. All I can think is that they must be so hungry they can’t manage decent posture!