Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sweaty Dressing: Alexander Wang's Corset Sweatshirt

Unless you're Norma Kamali, circa 1981, it's unlikely that you could have made me raise an interested eyebrow over sweatshirt dressing.

I didn't participate in the Jucification of the universe in the early noughties, nor did Jennifer Beals' torn Flashdance sweatshirt thrill me at the time.

But thanks to a recent editorial in Vogue, I've been considering a sweatshirt--and it doesn't have a university's name emblazoned on the chest. 

Here is Alexander Wang's cotton corset sweatshirt, in a perfect shade of oatmeal, just waiting to be paired with a skinny pair of khaki-colored ski pants.  Wang both elevates the humble sweatshirt and devulgarizes the demi-demi-cup corset. 

But underpants comme des garcons?  In brief: of corse-t not.

4 comments:

Belle de Ville said...

I don't know which I dislike more, the sweatshirt or the underwear. The corset by itself is kinda cute.

WendyB said...

I had a Flashdance sweatshirt! Don't knock it! :-P

Miss Cavendish said...

But the beauty of this look is that the corset and sweatshirt are attached! I wouldn't like either of these elements on their own . . .

Miss Cavendish said...

WendyB--I did say "at the time"--I totally appreciate the Flashdance sweatshirt now!