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TREND REPORT
Balenciaga
Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
Dries Van Noten
have a problem with white jeans. Not for what they
are—which is bleached cotton cut into a pair of tubes and
sewn together—but for what they represent. Because white jeans tend to be unforgiving. It takes
a woman with healthy self-esteem
to pull them off. Historically speaking, I have not been a woman with healthy self-esteem. Therefore, I have not been a woman who wears white jeans.
And until recently, I felt a pang of spite every time I passed a woman who wore white jeans and looked great in them. The aversion is like a self-inflicted allergy: irritating, unpredictable in its emergence, and entirely my own fault.
It may also be universal. Every woman I know has a similar irrational intolerance for a particular item of clothing. Rompers, for example. Or kitten heels. Or sleeveless turtlenecks. Or peplums. Or empire waists.
Gucci
CLOTHES
Encounters
What do you do when an entire season’s worth of runway trends don’t exactly speak to you? By Molly Young
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