Comments on: The Designer Disagrees

By: PL

PL — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:01:53 +0000

Am I too late? The Vera Wang is the only designer I would choose for winter sports.

By: Kai Jones

Kai Jones — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:38:47 +0000

Mad props to the Manolo for attracting Mr. den Beste!

Greetings and salutations to La Bella Donna. The beauty, taste, and accomplishment on display at the Masquerade and even, occasionally, by entrants in Hall Costuming are indeed amazing and admirable. It is the unintentional costuming that amuses rather than awes.

There are two categories that most appall me: the inappropriate choices of corsetry and the equally if differently inappropriate choices of kilts. (Leave aside the daily shower rule, observed more in the breach as they say.) (It’s not so much the vast tracts of skin I mind, as the unflattering way some choose to display it. Pick a color that flatters your skin tone, hair, and eyes, please.)

By: Moi

Moi — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 02:55:11 +0000

The couture, it is like stretch-marks, no?

By: Fred the Fourth

Fred the Fourth — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:14:39 +0000

Mr. Den Beste! I’m stunned to find you here. Your interests are even more catholic than I had believed. (Of course, if I had been told by a usenetter that someday I’d be contributing to a “web log” revolving around shoe fashion, I’d have had them locked up. Or maybe just assumed they were a normal usenetter…) The Fred he is shocked out of his ShoeBlogPersona and temporarily back into the real life.
May I discretely enquire as to your health?

Fred “no such thing as an ex-fan” the Fourth

By: The Scarlett

The Scarlett — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:33:14 +0000

jrochest wrote:

Imagine: a garment both insultingly ugly, personally unflattering and pysically dangerous. A trifecta!

Damn you, jrochest! My computer is now sprayed with Diet Coke! (Well played with the luge comment, btw.)

By: jrochest

jrochest — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:32:00 +0000

Fred the 4th:

The image produced by this little saga is delightful:

I wore it less than one season. You see, these things, they are not merely fugly, they are also lethal, at least if used as advertised. That is, for the actual skiing on the actual snow. One high-speed fall on the KT-22, a slope of some notable slope-ness, and I (nearly) discovered this in the flesh of my own person. There was much slipping and sliding and uncontrolled extreme accelerating falling (thanks to the slick jacket) leading to the severe contusions and abrasions.

What makes me laugh is not that Fred the 4th had such an unpleasant and doubtless frightening experience. No, it is the image of the model, shooting helplessly down the mountain on her gold-plated arse. Imagine: a garment both insultingly ugly, personally unflattering and physically dangerous. A trifecta!

Perhaps the outfit would be suitable for the luge?

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:59:27 +0000

Somewhat off topic, but I hope you'll forgive me. A few days ago Manolo had some comments about Jessica Simpson. I just found this picture of her (a publicity shot from the apparently execrable "Dukes of Hazzard" movie), and was curious to know what Manolo thought of the shoes she's wearing. Redneck chic they ain't. To me they seem jarringly inappropriate for someone wearing denim cutoffs and a tight T-shirt, but what I don't know about fashion would fill many books, so I must consult the expert. (And hope that my links don't get removed from this.)

By: Fred the Fourth

Fred the Fourth — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:42:26 +0000

In light of the Augusto’s explanation that the outfit is actually “skiwear” the Fred he is recalling a related skiwear fashion from oh so many moons ago. The “Wet Look”.
Some Very Clever designers discovered that synthetic fabrics could be coated to have a slick shiny appearance. Since this was the “New” thing it was of course the heighth of ski-fashion. Mostly for the jackets, this being before the era of the head-to-toe ski suits. Even the Fred, normally sane and cautious with the dollars, he bought one.
I wore it less than one season. You see, these things, they are not merely fugly, they are also lethal, at least if used as advertised. That is, for the actual skiing on the actual snow. One high-speed fall on the KT-22, a slope of some notable slope-ness, and I (nearly) discovered this in the flesh of my own person. There was much slipping and sliding and uncontrolled extreme accelerating falling (thanks to the slick jacket) leading to the severe contusions and abrasions.
Turns out that I was not the only one who noticed this *tiny* *problem*, and the style also fell rapidly from grace. Fortunately for the Fred, his jacket was destroyed by the fall and so he did not have to justify to his wallet the future not-wearing.
In the litigious environment of modern California, I predict the sudden economic demise of any company so unwise as to actually market such a thing for the actual skiing.

By: Lilibet

Lilibet — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:56:09 +0000

Marie Therese -- here is an explanation of "fugly."

By: Jenzilla

Jenzilla — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:15:55 +0000

I’m highly amused at Babel Fish’s translation of Augusto’s first post:

“They said the same things for Mugler, Gaultier, McQueen…..” the realta it is that the high fashion is experimentation and that sure comments speak from if! they are struck from fascist barracks, little worthy to be diffuse on Internet on a situated one that draft of moda.Fate cabaret that perhaps ago more to the case yours!