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Magazines have been proclaiming for some months now that there has been a shift in the fashion paradigm. With the stock market down and people zipping their wallets up tight tight tight, fashion has decided to take a walk on the simple side. They have pared it back - the crazy, the unattainable, the bizarre and the wild - and scrubbed it clean until you can see the bare bones of what fashion is and should be - CLOTHES. Should fashion be imaginative? Yes, by god, yes. Should we "dress up"? Yes, we bloody well should. But we're going to dress up and imagine ourselves in a way that is real and true. That is, not who we SHOULD be, but who we ARE, which is something just as exciting and fantastic as any couture collection.
"Real fashion". What does that mean? It means collections that show clothes, real clothes, that could go straight from the model to you, no matter what size or colour or creed. It means clothes that are streamlined and chic and urban. It means clothes that aren't worried about trends - even if they eventually form them. It is no wonder that the best collections were designed by women - Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, Hannah McGibbon - who seem to understand perfectly what women really want. It's not a head to toe Yetti costume in gorilla fur, but a sharp, oil-slick suit with leather pockets and a high collar you can turn up to the rain and fold down in a meeting. It's an a line skirt that skims over everything and swishes as you move. It's the perfect shirt, just loose enough, unbuttoned to there, with the sleeves bunched up at the elbows.
The come back of the shirt is a sign that real fashion is having a moment. The shirt is the epitome of "real" clothes, ones that are simple and sometimes confused with boring. It is, in fact, the building block of the wardrobe. I love shirts, they are simple, but beautiful, beautiful beautiful. They hang well on every kind of body, they accentuate curves and hide everything else. They are very, very real. They are all the same, really, despite patterns and cuffs and buttons and collars. They are just sleeves and tails. I've taken to wearing long, loose shirts over long, loose skirts, and it is something marvellous. There is nothing fussy about it. It is real fashion, for real people. like me!
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