thinking is the new black

I’m very busy redrafting 3 chapters of my thesis, marking 2nd year essays and writing a proposal for IMACR 2009, but I had to take a few minutes out to report on something which IMHO is very wrong.

There have been whispers of the reintroduction of  harem pants ( also known as the drop pant) into polite society for some time. The trend is credited to French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld but since designers such as Armani and Chloe revealed their spring collections, the fashion press are all keyed up  for S/S this year.

I’m sure they’re incredibly comfortable, much more democratic than skinny jeans,  cover a multitude of sins etc etc, but how can anyone fail to make associations with MC Hammer?

There is something very infantile about them which deeply troubles me. I can understand people wearing them to make a statement about comfort over style.  ”The cut liberates one from the confines of fashion, Yah” etc. The garment is about the rejection of the restriction of the construction of contemporary style, but today the drop-pant, tomorrow the adult nappy. Worrying if you ask me.