Style Pet Peeve: Bare Legs In Winter
Yes, we've had a few unseasonably warm days this winter, but let's not get ahead of ourselves: it is first and foremost February. I.e. winter. And there's nothing I find more uncomfortable than seeing women baring their legs or walking around in sandals in these chilly months. Here in Manhattan. On the red carpet at Sundance. In the front row at London Fashion Week.
It's not just the "cab-to-curb" phenomenon (as referenced in "Sh*t Fashion Girls Say At Fashion Week"), where women hop out of black SUVs, traipse a few feet down the red carpet or hurry along the street half a block (all while being snapped by paparazzi), until they're safely inside. It's civilian women, too. Girl outside my office today in striped pencil skirt sans tights, I'm looking at you.
At the end of the day, seeing women shiver and suffer for fashion strikes me as anything but stylish.
I'll end my rant here with a roundup of the worst offenders.
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This comment has not yet been postedJust a few weeks ago I invited a very nice young woman to a fine affair. She wore a lovely dress, had impeccable hair and makeup but bare legs. I did my best to look as good as I possibly could but she did not. Scratch another.
Jeans can be oh so sensual when they cling in all the right places and look like they have been caressing your natural body for ages. That look comes with time and only in natural fabric and YOU can be the unique inspiration for your perfect jeans. I know, I had some 501s when I was a size 28/30. Now, I am too curvey for men's jeans. The destroyed style jeans are all contrived and dopey looking. Lycra, elastine or whatever it is called, is made from petrochemicals and does not belong in honest work wear. And the petrochemicals transmit cold better than plain cotton in the winter and hold in more heat in the summer. Where are the real clothes for real women? No, not in Title 9 or Duluth catalogs. I was so disappointed by them...
We do have such a short window to get away with such things though don't we.
I feel it would be better to advise those without attractive midriffs, to keep them covered until you get things in viewable shape.
I thought women would go topless before they went bottomless. Tights and a top. Wow. Not a complaint.