Sunday, May 29, 2016

Giving This the Cold Shoulder


I'm giving summer's hot off-the-shoulder trend a pass. Reluctantly. It's a fun look— and new. We haven't seen many fresh trends lately, just lots more of the same sailor stripes and chambray and track pants and clunky trainers (Brit-speak at least sounds more chic than "sneakers").  Bill Cunningham has spotted enough bare clavicles on the streets of New York already to fill his "On the Street" column in today's New York Times. Every window in the mall shows the look in mutiples. It's arrived.

He saw one every six minutes

As a WOACA* my problem with off-the-shoulder is my problem with shoulders— lack thereof and/or morphing into an osteo-arthritis widow's hump (premature as I'm still happily married). In other words, I'd be looking rather too much like Mary Todd Lincoln in a shoulder-baring silhouette.

Mary Mary

It's a shame when we have to "call it" on account of age, but call it I do. I'd like the world to know that's the only reason I haven't latched onto the look, and the world should be grateful. I hope those of you with time on your side will opt in and wear one for me. Cheers!


Proenza-Schouler's shoulders

* Woman of a Certain Age

6 comments:

  1. You have a great sense of humor------"Mary Todd Lincoln".
    Love your posts.

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    1. Thank you! Mary and I have more in common than I would ever have thought.

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  2. Greetings ... approaching 75, my shoulders are about the only thing I have going for me ~~ smiles!

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  3. Shoulder exposure a problem? I'm more concerned about those unsupported bustlines--mine and everyone else's. That's not going to be good.

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    1. Didn't even consider the bustline! I've recently seen a lot of this style out and about. In person It looks a little like "your blouse is slipping".

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  4. Shoulder exposure a problem? I'm more concerned about those unsupported bustlines--mine and everyone else's. That's not going to be good.

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