the kind of thing i never notice except this morning i did

[dubdobdee]

... a really quite large number of young ladies in hackney and essex road and angel rockin the culottes-with-dark-tights look

i think this is MAJOR FASHION FAIL tho i appreciate it is not really aimed at me, and they could care less what i think...

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I have been deciding that I quite like it, esp when the culottes are more GOLFING PLUS FOURS plus dark tights, and have been planning on experimenting with this look (first start = changing rooms).

wikipedia:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Plus fours are trousers that extend 4 inches below the knee (and thus four inches longer than traditional knickerbockers, hence the name). As they allow more freedom of movement than knickers, they have been traditionally associated with sporting attire from the 1860s and onward, and are particularly associated with golf.

Less known are plus twos, plus sixes and plus-eights, of similar definitions.

... Reference is made to this article of clothing in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

It is petite shorts I am mainly vexed at here.

cibin!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

by which I mean MINUS-FOURS and indeed MINUS-EIGHTS

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

clearly the problem here is that the tights should be STRIPEY (and worn with docs/para boots)...

OBJECTION!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

you have never used that avatar before

Re: OBJECTION!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that is not true, it is my Proper Indie (88-91 inclusive) icon

Re: OBJECTION!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what are you, some kind of s!mon r3ynolds?

Re: OBJECTION!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ah, no, i meant as opposed to:

Proper Indie (92-95)
Proper Indie (95-99)
Proper Indie (2000-present)

rather than proper indie only existing for three years...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah this is def a thing! i think it can work really really well but only if you are A CERTAIN TYPE OF GIRL who is better than the others, ie 90% of the time NO but in the case of my friend anna-marie YES.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ok there was a girl on the bus with this except WHITE tights <-- def not working

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Culottes remind me of the 80s, but not in a good way. They make me think of all of the frumpy/preppy women from my neighborhood back in the day.

[koganbot]

Pictures?