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 | Avoid self-inflicted sartorial wounds with this tongue-in-cheek guide to what fashions you should steer clear of in 2002. |
Gap Clothes
Fact: Americans think Gap is cool and (along with Chinos) it's almost become the national casual wardrobe. Fact: Gap has a stinking reputation for using sweatshop labour and producing clothes cheaply in non-first world countries. Fact: the designs are sometimes as imaginative as Marks & Spencer's men's sock range. Fact: the television adverts cost millions and are criminally crap. Those celebrities (including Seal, Macy Gray and Alanis Morrisette) who accept fat fees for appearing in them have no credibility and are a disincentive to buying the clothes.
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Adidas Originals
OK, so Old Skool is a cracking fashion movement but Adidas, you are lazy. What is all this about one-off track suit tops, sourced from 'real people's' wardrobe's and then reissued to become back catalogue jobs? The Adidas Originals range undermines the whole point of actually finding and wearing an original piece of sportswear and smacks of designers who are short on ideas but want big sales. See also Archive designs.
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One-shoulder Tops
They were cool in early 2001, but then pop sensations Atomic Kitten and Hear'Say started donning overtly sexy one shoulder tops and catapulted them into a tweenage phenomenon. If Barbie hasn't got one in her wardrobe yet, she soon will have and anything that Barbie has got, really ain't hot. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
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Archive Designs
Every fashion company seems to have suddenly rediscovered their pattern archives and 2002 is set to see more and more archive designs. From Pringle to Puma, archive designs are everywhere. Why? Well, it is a cheap and easy alternative to coming up with something new.
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Slang T-shirts
If you believe the likes of glossy fashion magazines, Slang T-shirts are cool. Even if you giggled when Stella McCartney slapped pineapples on her tops for Chloe, you aren't seriously going to go out wearing a T-shirt which says 'Bristols' or Trouble and Strife' thinking it looks good are you? Clay O'Shea's designs have even been seen on Melanie Blatt and Lisa Stansfield for gawd sake. |  |
