| Leather comes back on the fashion radar at least | | | | young look and not easy to carry off if you are one of |
| every other winter (except of course, at Stella | | | | the aged 30plus Queens of Suburbia! at Nobody likes |
| McCartney who takes a political stance on such | | | | the mutton dressed as lamb look! Or should that be |
| matters). This is vaguely baffling, considering the fact | | | | cow dressed as calf look? |
| that it's a look that's almost impossible to pull off | | | | Some women can, Chrissie Hynde could still wear this |
| without looking like a washed-up rock star, but hey, | | | | convincingly - but it is best approached with caution. It's |
| thats fashion for you. | | | | a potential minefield, we all know somebody who |
| Actually, you can wear leather without evoking | | | | seems magntically drawn to every fashion mine ever |
| questions about whatever happened to Joan Jet and | | | | laid, just make sure it isn't you! My rule of thumb is: if |
| the Blackhearts anyway? If you wear it badged and | | | | you still feel this is the true you, go for it, but if you feel |
| padded, you can look like a Hell's Angel. Or at least a | | | | like a fraud in it, then you probably look like a fraud, too. |
| Hells Angel's girlfriend. Or you can wear it faded and | | | | So how to wear leather this season? Despite the |
| patched, and look like a 1970s PhD student, but the | | | | pitfalls, Its actually not that hard. The best starting point |
| 1970s PhD student look has never exactly been a key | | | | with leather is a skirt. Remember the fabric of any skirt |
| fashion trend, so it need not concern us. (note to | | | | has its own raunch-factor, which should be added to |
| trendsetters - there's a gap in the market for a look | | | | or subtracted from the hemline. Tweed for example, is |
| influenced by 1970's PHD students!) | | | | passion killingly sensible and has a RF factor about 4 |
| There are leather coats in the shops, but they take | | | | inches, so a mid thigh tweed is only as raunchy as a |
| you a little far into the rhelm of the call girl. Great if you | | | | knee length normal skirt. Leather, on the other hand, |
| like overweight businessmen trying to pick you up on | | | | has a RF of minus three inches, meaning anything |
| street corners, not so clever if you're out on a walk | | | | shorter than mid-thigh is, in fact, positively obscene! |
| with the kids! | | | | The good news? The leather revival does not extend |
| You might want to consider the most fashionable | | | | to trousers. And for that we should all be grateful! It's |
| leather look of the season, which is a cropped, casual, | | | | an offical fact (probably on wikipedia) the only person |
| fitted zip-up jacket worn over a cocktail dress and | | | | in the history of the world, ever, who looked good in |
| thick tights, with ankle boots. However, it is kind of a | | | | leather trousers is the late Micheal Hutchance of INXS. |