Thursday 30 September 2010

Down with camel



Here's a spash of colour from Acne as an antidote to all the camel sludging around the place just now. Despite the hundreds of magazine pages and shop displays dedicated to insisting that camel is THE colour to wear this season, camel is – let’s be honest here – a bland shade of brown that suits about one per cent of the population (that's the one per cent who can afford to buy Chloe). It will be out on its colourless backside come January. And then you’ll be stuck wearing your unflattering trousers/coat/jumper – or, worst of all, cape – while everyone else breathes a sigh of relief as they thankfully pull on their black and grey (or pretty well any other colour at all). Most of us, sadly, do not look like Ali McGraw or Lauren Hutton when wearing high-waisted camel trousers. I know black is commonplace, and navy can be boring, but camel feels like fashion's scraping the barrel.

2 comments:

  1. Oh, your not that fond of camel then.
    I suppose the picture of a 1960's bookmaker comes to mind unaided when you think of that colour.
    I think I read a tag for it some place as baby-poop brown.

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  2. I totally agree with you about camel, you need to be blonde, thin and tanned to wear it

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