I have really not been shy in my mocking of Lucky magazine and the fashions it chooses to showcase. And that's just on this blog. Have brunch with me sometime, I can rant about it for hours.
And yet, I am still a loyal subscriber to the magazine.
So I was pleasantly surprised when I was paging through the most recent issue. It was full of affordable fashions. And features on how to dress so many different body types and not just the rail-thin model types. There were even pages I tore out because I thought I could replicate some of the looks and not look like a circus clown. I almost couldn't believe it. Was this the same magazine that a few months ago that an oversized motorcycle jacket was a necessary "basic" I needed in my wardrobe for forever? I kept flipping to the cover to verify that I was, in fact, reading Lucky.
I was just about to give Lucky magazine a big ole two thumbs up when I flipped on this page.
Seriously?
I have issues with short suits in general. Mainly that they are often marketed as office-friendly. Unless you work in a creative field or something similar, they are not.
But it wasn't even the concept of the short suit that bothered me. It was that they were encouraging people to make a short suit work...in February!!! What in the world.
I get that there are parts of the country where people are currently wearing shorts. But for the bulk of the country, I am guessing most of us put on a winter coat this morning. And probably a scarf. And pants! Or fleece-lined tights. Lucky magazine, there is already a flu outbreak. Must you advocate dressing to catch a cold too?
There is a time and place for making a fashion statement and then there is being responsible and dressing appropriately for the weather. There are plenty of months in the year when it is so flipping hot outside that the short suit would be more "incredibly cute" and make so much more sense. (But just not to the office. Please.)
yes. we need to make a brunch date. obviously.
ReplyDeleteHaha. OMG. Crazy.
ReplyDeleteI think I will wear a shorts suit to my preschool run and see if anyone says anything. ;) I wore a sequined tee yesterday with denim and a lot of the mothers were all, "sparkly you!" So I suspect sparkly will turn to "you are certifiable and need to be in an institution" if I tried pinstriped bermudas. LOL.
I did have a co-worker at my school who would wear long stretch wool shorts to teach in, and I always thought it was right on the edge of being inappropriate, even though they looked fine and weren't too short. It may just be that I can't get my DC conservative dressing self to admit that shorts in the workplace are okay--sometimes. (But never church. I definitely can't get over that one!)
A. Brunch date to mock Lucky? Sign me up.
ReplyDeleteB. If I wore a shorts suit to work, my students would absolutely mock me to death. To say nothing of what my department chair and other administration would say. And I work in higher education which is theoretically a "less conservative" field where you can get away with being more casual (though admittedly, at a more conservative institution, but still). Jeans? OK as long as you dress them up some (though I never do it). SHORTS TO WORK? NO. Just no.
That's so crazy, right? It might be a little better if the shorts were Bermuda or Knee-length, but 3-5 inches!?! Even in Texas I wouldn't dare.
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