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Inappropriate Christmas Jumpers: Jingle Balls
TODAY in Inappropriate Christmas Jumpers: Jingle Balls:
Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Fashion, The Consumer | Comment
The Rise And Fall of ‘Hippiedilly’ In 1969
ON the Sunday morning of 21 September 1969, a slightly-built Chief Inspector convinced some hippies inside a squat at a large five storey mansion at 144 Piccadilly to lower an improvised wooden drawbridge so doctors could help a seriously ill person inside. The drawbridge came down and Chief Inspector Michael Rowling flung himself bravely across the barricaded opening to establish a bridgehead. Suddenly a police sergeant blew his whistle and shouted “Come on lads – let’s go in!” and a hundred policemen, seemingly from nowhere, charged over the bridge and through the front door.
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Posted: 5th, December 2013 | In: Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Top 5 Fashion Offenses of The 1970s
BEFORE launching into the typical “Oh, aren’t those Seventies fashions so terrible” spiel, let’s get one thing out of the way: 70s’ fashions are an easy target because they took chances. Whenever you are bold you run the risk of becoming the butt of jokes. Today’s styles seem to abide by the “best not to make waves” approach – unlikely to cause much ridicule in future decades, but also fatally milquetoast. Not so the 1970s.
Attribute it to millions of emboldened Boomers coming of age or a staggering amount of recreational drug use. Either way the case is the same: 1970s fashions inspire equal parts awe and terror for denizens of the 21st century. Let’s take a look at the top five instances where this inspiring boldness went terribly, terribly wrong.
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Posted: 1st, December 2013 | In: Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Grandstanding For Haiyan: The Beckhams Sell Their Clothes
THE Beckham – that’s David and Victoria – have given lots of their old clothes to be sold off to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines with huge loss of life.
Good for them. So what if it’s grandstanding. So long as it helps the victims, all to the good.
Some people have put the kit up for resale on eBay. And good for them, too. Actually wearing a Beckham cast-off is a bit creepy.
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Posted: 22nd, November 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Reviews | Comment
Abbey Clancy Wear’s Julien Macdonald’s Table Runner (Photos)
ABBEY Clancy, Strictly Come Dancing pro-celeb hoofer and wife to footballer Peter Crouch (What would you be if you weren’t a footballer, Peter? PC: “A virgin”) wore Julien Macdonald’s patchwork of seaside beach flags to The Brave Gala at Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London. Signs are that Dear Abbey thought it was contest for who could be bravest.
Our pick of the photos, though, is not Abbey holding the seat of her patriotic table runner in the manner of Justin Bieber with a full pull-up, but she and Julien gazing into each other’s teeth.
Posted: 12th, November 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion | Comment
The Woman From Volantis: Lady Gaga Shows Us Her Flying Dress
TO herald the release of her album ARTPOP. Lady Gaga stood at New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard and showcased the Volantis transport prototype “flying dress.” She said: “Although she is a vehicle, she, is essentially a metaphor for me.”
She is her own biggest fan.
Posted: 11th, November 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Music | Comment
Everyday Sexism: The 1972 Golden Hands Complete Book of Dressmaking
EVERYDAY Sexism: Anorak harks back to the 1972 book The Golden Hands Complete Book of Dressmaking.
What is ‘Golden Hands’ in the pink neckerchief thinking? That if he pretends to be “a good dresser” or a “poof”, as the 1970s language had it, the woman won’t mind his appraising her chest? Maybe. Don’t knock it, dudes. Wind the clock on a few decades and raging heterosexual shagger Gok Wan is undressing women on telly and telling them how to look good naked.
Remember: no-on on TV is gay. It’s all an act. After all, if lesbians were popular, you’d see a lot more of them on the magic box.
Posted: 8th, November 2013 | In: Fashion, Flashback | Comment
Teen Suspended For Wearing Girl’s Bag To School
Posted: 8th, November 2013 | In: Fashion, Strange But True | Comment (1)
‘Jesus, This Is What The Sunday Times Thinks Hipsters Look Like’
AS Gideon Defoe puts it: “Jesus, this is what the Sunday Times thinks hipsters look like”. It’s Johnnis Boden and The Bodenios:
Spotter: Gideon Defoe
Arsenal And Liverpool Players Top List Of 7 Awful Premier League Haircuts
FOOTBALLERS, bless ’em, haven’t worked out the ideal formula involving brains, fashion and money. Everyone remembers Liverpool’s white FA Cup suits and eyebrows were raised when Davey Beckham wore a sarong… and not as many remember John Barnes’ ‘bird shit jacket’ he wore as a presenter on Channel 5.
However, the worst decisions footballers make tend to involve their hair. And in the Premier League, we’ve been blessed with some players who make mystifying decisions.
Here, we look at some of the ones you may have forgotten.
Cesc Fabregas
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6 Crucial Dos And Don’ts Of Men’s Fashion
MEN’s fashion is always up for a laugh. Anorak advises keeping it simple and always tucking your vest into your Y-fronts. Jessica Saia has created this guide to men’s fashion. Spotetr: bold italic
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Shreddies: The Men Knickers That Filter Your Bottom Burps
LEICESTERSHIRE’S Shreddies Ltd. brings us knickers and pants that filter your farts.
The thin and flexible cloth, which contains Zorflex® — the same activated carbon material used in chemical warfare suits — is reactivated simply by washing the pants. Shreddies say through extensive testing the carbon cloth could filter odors 200 times the strength of the average flatus emission.
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Marketing Balls: Nike Launch Ronaldo’s New Real Madrid Boot In A Supernova Of Guff
WANT to buy Cristiano Ronaldo’s new Nike Mercurial IX CR7 boot, complete with ‘supernova’ skin print (in homage to Ronaldo’s “out of this world” performances since joining Real Madrid)?
In case you are still undecided as ty the merits of walking in Ronaldo’s shoes, the official Nike blurb, courtesy of design director Denis Dekovic, should seduce you
“The concept of a star that burns brighter than others reflects Cristiano’s style, speed and the idea that as a player he plays without limits, much like the outer reaches of the galaxy. What Cristiano is able to achieve on the field is something that we felt was limitless. So we took that direction and focused on creating a highly luxurious finish fused with modern print and colour choices.”
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Courtney Stodden Stars On FashionMINGA.Com Red Carpet
WE are indebted to D-listed for pointing us towards LA’s FashionMinga.com.
WHAT IS FASHION MINGA?
Is it a fashion site for mingas?
Fashion Minga is a collaboration of designers, performers, and tastemakers coming together to celebrate the various components that inspire fashion: music, dance, color, shape and visual elements.
But Minga..
“Minga” is an Ecuadorian term for “a community coming together to work for the benefit of all”.
So. It isn’t just a British term for, as the Urban Dictionary defines:
a male or female who fell out of the ugly tree at birth and hit every branch on the way down
God that girl/boy is so minging she really needs to work on her personality
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Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion | Comment
Tamara Mellon On Jimmy Choo, Mr Mellon Head And Her Therpay Bashing Mother
IN My Shoes: a Memoir by Tamara Mellon with William Patrick, tell the story if the woman who helped Malaysian cobbler Jimmy Choo become a to-die-for brand of the well-heeled. The book might be subtitled Putting Leboutin (geddit?) because Mellon has a few bon mots about her business partners and lovers.
A few highlights from her chat with the Times’s Stefanie Marsh:
She tweeted:
“In the New Year. I will give interviews and talk about the MONSTER Private Equity has become and the VULTURES that operate in it.”
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Posted: 19th, October 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion | Comment
I want a PSYCHEDELIC CAT SWEATER
OBJECTS of desire: The PSYCHEDELIC CAT SWEATER.
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How Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and Britney Spears can help you evade the NSA and Facebook spooks
HOW can you prevent your face from being known by the authorities searching the American-corporation-owned web? Wear a burqa. A beard? Be old and grey (the ultimate invisibility cloak)? Dutch designer Simone C. Niquille has an idea how you can dodge facial-recognition software: wear clothes covered in pictures of other people. Her “REALFACE Glamoflage” T-shirts are great. She says:
“I was interested in the T-shirt as a mundane commodity. An article of clothing that in most cases does not need much consideration in the morning in front of the closet…I was interested in creating a tool for privacy protection that wouldn’t require much time to think in the morning, an accessory that would seamlessly fit in your existing everyday. No adaption period needed.”
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Posted: 6th, October 2013 | In: Fashion, Technology | Comment
