It was brought to my attention how lazy fashion has become, when I ventured out in search of a frock for a swanky soiree I’m due to attend. What is with these high street shops and their celebration of the ‘I just rolled out of bed look’? I’m going to go out on a whim here and suggest that most of us would be quite horrified at the prospect of being confronted by our peers of equal standing before we’ve even tucked into our cornflakes. But if this has come to be the acceptable method of dress, then let’s just go the whole hog and rock ‘morning breath’ as a trendy, dental craze; gone are the times of the minty fresh whiff.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a maxi dress or a playsuit as much as the next catwalk informed coolster, but there’s a time and a place and it’s not at my great grandma’s 90th or my cousin’s bar mitzvah. Sometimes, a garment is needed of good stature and tailoring and you’ll be pushed to find it in today’s carefree climate. Topshop for instance, usually one of my favourite shopping haunts, has been taken over by oversized t-shirts in what seems to be some sort of clothing coup. Warehouse, a usually dependable and trusty friend in the world of formal dress, had nothing suitable to meet my needs.
This is not the first time said issue has arisen for me, being a student exposed to the alternate world carved by Jack Wills gilet and jogging bottom culture. Who in their right mind would fork out £60 plus for a pair of pants which are deliberately intended to make you look like an idle, ineffective sloth? The mind well and truly boggles when I think that I was probably scorned for turning up to lectures in a pair of well made and cleanly washed jeans. Just to remind you, jeans are the once popular item of clothing that has since been replaced by leggings and a pair of camel coloured space boots, also known as Uggs.
So to sum up, casual wear, like anything else, is great in moderation. However, it seems we all need to journey back to a time when we didn’t wear giant pillow cases in public, and we combed our hair and took part in other grooming related activities.
