Hey everybody, ya gotta get some high-waisted camel pants!*
Today I read the August 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar. Well, I sort of read it, as Bazaar is about 15% text. I mostly looked at pictures. The editors really wanted to make sure I knew that if I plan on doing any walking this fall--especially any left-to-right striding while blond--I'd better have plenty of camel pants on hand. I found the above full-length photos within the same 35-pages of each other in the magazine's editorial (i.e. non-ad) section near the end.
How could that happen? I'm not in the fashion business and I barely pay attention to women's magazines anymore (I don't remember signing up for a lifetime subscription, but Harper's Bazaar just keeps coming to me). How is it that I was able to spot this completely jarring repetition while zonked out on the couch and just about to fall asleep, but no one at the magazine, whom you'd think would care, was able to spot it? It's basically the same look in the same pose with (pretty much) the same woman shot from the same angle with the same wind machine! Three times in a chunk of the magazine no thicker than 1/16th of an inch! I'd write a letter to the editor about it, but H.B. hasn't had that feature in years.
It kind of goes without saying, but there's no way you can tuck a denim shirt into pants like those without serious lines, blousing, gut-enhancement and/or bunching.
[insert your own camel toe joke here]
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I'd like to add that the Hulu Guy has a great voice. "The FOLLowing clip is brought to you by..." He always makes whatever it is I'm watching seem cooler, funkier.
Posted by: Kelly | July 24, 2010 at 04:40 PM
I prefer my chambray shirts in a men's XLT, so that my coworker tells me, "You look like a housepainter. Or Roseanne Barr."
Posted by: Caroline | July 24, 2010 at 05:00 PM
Also. Seriously. These pants already are giving the far right twig model a phantom pooch. What are they going to do to normal women? DOWN WITH HIGH WAISTS AND SLASH POCKETS.
Posted by: Caroline | July 24, 2010 at 05:02 PM
Freakin' A, Caroline. Clearly three women in the entire world can successfully wear these pants (one with phantom pooch, indeed!), all of whom are shown above.
I bought a big denim workshirt back in *1993* as part of my "art teacher facing a day in the clay mine" look. I've worn it ever since, sometimes as a sort of lazy-woman's blazer. That sucker is indestructible, but if I tucked it into pants like those and wore it to school, I don't think the hooting would ever stop.
Posted by: Kelly Eddington | July 24, 2010 at 05:08 PM
Since the early 80's, I've longed for the day when I could call a woman "Charlie" again. That day has come at last. So welcome back, Charlie, Charlie, AND Charlie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sn8H42FZcI
Posted by: Melinda | July 25, 2010 at 08:51 AM
Ha! That's pretty astute, Melinda, because the magazine called this a Charlie look, too! I think I saw that commercial 193432 times when I was a kid.
Posted by: Kelly Eddington | July 25, 2010 at 09:12 AM
I like these kinds of observations. I play a game with my daughter called "Too Skinny." We look through fashion mags and discuss which models look healthy and happy and which look freakish and miserable.
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