I like this dress -- it looks Modern without looking as if you were trying too hard to be modern. It's a nice shape, a nice length, and no matter how clever and manipulative your personal body-image demons are, they probably haven't gotten around to talking you into hating the very tips of your shoulders yet. So show 'em off! This dress also requires Important (or at least Very Dangly) Earrings, or perhaps even a Striking Cuff Bracelet, so keep that in mind. (Neither of which accoutrements could I wear for more then ten minutes before slipping them off to be lost forever in the bottom of my handbag, so I would be drastically underaccessorized in this dress.)
And by "try something new," I mean if you're a size 0/2 and have $119 to spare -- this is on sale at Neiman's and 0/2 is the only size left. Ah, end-of-season sales, where the two ends of the bell curve make out like bandits, and the rest of us in the hump just LOOK.
This dress is NOT -- and I can't stress how important this is -- NOT made of that hideous stretch polyester that so many knit dresses are molded of these days. No, this one is very nice combed cotton.
Why the model was told to have no two planes of her body facing the same way, I have no idea. But she's doing a really good job of following instructions, isn't she?
My guess as to the model's pose - the stylist was attempting to enhance the "modernist" look. "A cubist figure in a geometric space - that'll do it!"Personally, I'd rather see it go all the way - have the model playing Twister. Which is what the pose and those shoulder cut outs make me think about! -S
Posted by: Anonymous | 08/11/2005 at 11:22 AM