Posted on 08/08/2009 5:28:43 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
This autumn, cardigans are going to be big, short and cute or long and elegant
Though I dare say Michelle Obama would prefer to be remembered for more than plumping up the sales of J. Crew’s knitwear, it is for her services to the cardigan that she will long be talked about on planet fashion. What she’s done is to show us how to wear it with panache. She’s made it look fresh, modern and perfectly capable of holding its own in the highest of places. So it was that when the distinguished but stately designer Oscar de la Renta told Women’s Wear Daily that “You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater,” it was he who seemed foolish, not the fresh and breezy Michelle O.
As Amy Fine Collins, chief style correspondent for Vanity Fair, puts it, “It’s clever not to wear the jacket all the time, which can look stiff and proper. The cardigan covers up in the same way, but it’s soft and versatile.”
The fragrant Martha Stewart was just as enthusiastic: “If our First Lady wears J. Crew to greet the Queen of England, no reason I can’t wear J. Crew to a business dinner. The great thing about this is it’s so freeing.”
How you wear a cardigan matters. While the young royals, for instance, or funky models (Agyness Deyn) and the music set (Lily Allen), use the cardigan to dress an outfit down, flinging a cardie over a prom or ball dress as if to say, “I’m not really all dressed up,” the 30-plus woman uses it precisely to dress an outfit up.
(Excerpt) Read more at women.timesonline.co.uk ...
No, Number One is visit your local Goodwill thrift store at least one hour before Airforce One takes off to wherever you are going in Europe or a $250,000 “date” in NYC.
Will it make her butt look smaller??
Just between us, dear - you look like you're wearing rags.
Ho. There. I don't think I will get banned.
Can't wait to see Zero in a cardigan!! The mental picture cracks me up!!
That picture is priceless.
Newsflash— cardigans are to be popular this fall! News at 11!
Didn’t you know before the fabulous Michelle, women had never worn sleeveless tops or dresses in the summer? My goodness until she came along we thought we were to wear floursacks (unbelted of course) year round. I do believe she is the mother of fashion as Gore is the father of the internet.
“Fresh, modern”, “soft, versatile”......sounds like they’re describing a sofa.
She wears the sweaters to cover her guns (arms) and her oddly shaped torso
*snicker*
LOL!! Now we need some Photoshop experts coming up with some Zero cardigan pix!
Heh. He already looks like a real Melvin. His dweeb quotient will go up about 20 points in a cardigan.
If he's standing next to the First Skank it will look like Jack Sprat and his wife (she's got to be three times as wide across the beam as he is), crossed with American Gothic, with a black version of Revenge of the Nerds thrown in for good measure.
Since whwen is an obivously too small cardigan in?
I think you’d need a 4’ hat for that! ;)
Groan!
Yeah, those buttons look like they are fighting for their lives. Stand clear! One might blow off any minute!
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