It’s time to move on from the big black goat-hair coat. It was fun for a while but now it’s sad. Do any normal people wear them, or just fashion blogggers?
I don’t want to see any version of the Lita, or any clog hybrids. No more talons, either. No more Alex Wang handbags and no more ratty leopard print jackets unless you’re Kate Moss.
What look or item would you like to banish for 2011?
*UPDATE – Shit, I just saw that the NYT did a piece on Ten Things they don’t want to see in 2011. It’s here.
lita’s were so old before they even became available to the commoners. boring.
hmmmm i’d banish those j brand cargo pant things, any jeffrey campbell shoes in general and anything sea of shoes wears.
Everything on the SW banned word list.
no skulls-are they INSANE!!!
I promise you I will do none of the above x
Thankfully denim diapers didn’t make their way across the Atlantic (PS is that Tom Cruise’s love child modelling them?)
I am so glad the NYT included those stupid denim diapers! Thank goodness I never saw any babies wearing them in real life, but the concept was just appalling. I once overheard some people talking about how cute they were. Ugh!
Most of this 80s retro crap needs to go too. That includes the foldy flappy skirts. Also, buffalo check, day glo, and flats. As someone who must have arch support and can’t wear high heels – I hate that my only other option out there lately is flats.
I read your post and then immediately saw this: http://www.wheredidugetthat.com/2011/01/flares-fur-and-snake-print.html
Acne Atacoma, sidecuts, the Alex(ander) Wang bag with the studs on the bottom, Pamela Love jewelry, creepers and anything Balmain.
Didn’t like Norma Kamali the 1st time around – & please box up the Kardashians & send them to China.
My OH used to have a coat like this in huge black/white chevrons. Someone stole it back in ’94. Probably a blessing.
oh nooooo….there has never been a time in my life when i didn’t own a leopard print coat, and there NEVER WILL BE! just because it’s been the object of blogger abuse, doesn’t mean it should be on that list!
some things to replace it: shredded t-shirts, the fucking proenza schouler/mulberry alexa satchel (so bookish looking but invariably carried by people who don’t read books), goddamn fucking fedoras (again, i had been wearing them for years (hats suit me because of my big nose) but now they are ruined, wedge ankle boots, the expression “anything Celine,” copious rings on the fingers, leather leggings.
ahahhaha! Crystal’s link is fantastic.
One for the list: bloggers dressing like groupies from the 1970s.
Horrible ugly shoes in all possible shapes not remotely close to a human foot.
50’s style or anything remotely burlesque. Enough of this “empowered” strippers style.
Crystal Says:
January 3rd, 2011 at 5:52 am
I like the puzzled faces of the passers by in the background of those photos. I always think you must lack a sense of shame to bring a photographer out with you to pose in the street.
In 2011 I would like to see less ‘bloggers’ and more blogs written by people who do not fit the this description: a slim young girl (probably being photographed by her boyfriend) looking solemn in a field/ uber trendy bar/ other place you would never be in real life, wearing something that wouldn’t look out of place in a 70s crack den but which they actually paid a heck of a lot of money for (if it wasn’t part of a sponsorship sort of deal).
No Ed Hardy anything! Douche-wear!
Barbie-Goths, poster-hipsters, shoulder pads(again), shredded, shrunken, cropped, oversize, digitally printed, skulls, bones, nudity, nude, greige….objects of global desire and envy.
Eighty-pound girls taking ‘high fashion’ pictures of themselves. I’ve seen enough to last me a lifetime.
I really don’t like this type of fur. It is meant to copy the real monkey fur that was used in the past. Now it is prohibited thank god, but this fur also looks like real human fur and it’s like the models wear real human hair, quite disgusting to say the least.
Things that I would like to see go: flats (not the one with a small heel, those are not flats), monkey hair fur, gladiator shoes (only gladiators look good in them), harem pants, big huge cloak shoes (those look better on a farmer I mean in north of France), huge high heels (makes you look like a hooker), above knee boots, pointy toe shoes.
Things I like: normal shoes (round toes are okay), normal boots (no pirates or hookers just normal boots).
However, I like the 50’s even if the article mentions that it is outdated, I really like that style.
typo: “those look good on a farmer I met in north of france”..yea I am French.
I hate clogs. I can’t believe people are wearing those again. I clicked on the NYT article and saw this over to the side- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/fashion/02Daphne.html
Peeps need the guts to wear the real, disgusting, vintage thing like me: http://wendybrandes.com/blog/2010/01/kenneth-jay-lane-made-me-do-it/
Ha!
I just got some Jeffrey Campbell wooden sole platform boots last month and I love them. I also got a leopard print sweater coat for Christmas. I am breaking the rules already. I will spare you from telling you about what a bad-ass I am in them – oops!
Well, I love my Litas… they’re super comfy and I like them so poo on you. I guess I know what you mean though.
xo
I just can’t get past what that guy is doing around his nose in that photo – call me shallow or squeamish, I don’t care.
I refudiate those coats!
“(so bookish looking but invariably carried by people who don’t read books)”
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Oh, annemarie, you’re the best.
I just made a people to watch list in 2011 WAHEY! and all without recourse to goat hair coats or vaginaplasty or really ugly hoof like shoes. So there Fashion and um Vajazzle bloggers…
How about 10 things that Sister Wolf doesn’t leave home without? show us the inside of your handbag and your daily must haves. Start teachin’ the chitlins how it is done. xx
Fucking Uggs have to go. They bring me out in hives.
sheer skirts so that we can see the granny panties underneath. unless a blogger wears that outfit standing in front of a gaggle of schoolchildren who are not mocking her mercilessly, i refuse to believe it’s nothing more than an excuse to show off her thighs.
I’m sick of the high class stripper shoes. Just because they cost $750+ and have a fancy name inside doesn’t mean they aren’t just glorified stripper shoes (offenders you know who you are, ahem, sea, ahem)….
Also on my 2011 no-see list , in no particular order:
-anna della russo (there, I said it.)
-anything purporting to be ‘jeggings’
-animal hats (you know, hats that make your head resemble an animal)
-hipster boys in v-neck t-shirts
-any member of the Palin family in any context
-anything ‘designed’ by a celebrity/musician
-little girl dresses on grown women
-grown women dresses on little girls
kate – Is this a Lady Diana reference?
annemarie – Isn’t that a wonderful link?!? Everybody go click on crystal’s link! “Anything Celine” is truly the money quote. I’ll google it!
I just got a pair of Madewell clog boots on sale and I plan on wearing the hell out of them. Looks like I’m a list offender here . . .
Shearling coats! Fur boots. And I’m tired of the ‘black draped asymmetrical’ look.
I’m curious to know what ‘real human fur’ is. Candy?
Someone didn’t hear you…..http://www.wheredidugetthat.com/2011/01/flares-fur-and-snake-print.html
I want all Ugg boots burned, but that’s like wanting BryanBoy to grow up – futile.
Kate, yeah that reminds me, what happened to Thigh Girl?
I think the Jamie Dornan photos (the one you posted in the upper right corner) is hot as hell, and yes, i realize it looks like he just blew a snot-rocket. I know i know, he’s wearing over priced, shredded clothes and stomping around in grease infused water. but jeesh he sure is fine. I guess i like my men a little dirty, and scruffy and draped in furs like modern day cave-men. (my boyfriend would never be caught dead in that jacket though, and i love him for it).
http://thefashionisto.com/on-the-run-jamie-dornan-by-cedric-buchet/
so Sister, we all know what trends you hate. . . but what do you like? (not to be read in a snotty way). xx Molly
I must also add that sometimes when i’m getting dressed i think not WWJD but WWSWMFO (What would Sister Wolf make fun of) not that it could ever stop me from wearing shearling. . . but it does keep me in check on which trends are just plain fug.
hello Emma
I meant human hair not human fur…lol
Rackk and Ruin – Oh, I am in total agreement about Jamie: He is ADORABLE and I’ve told him so more than once. A total babe. You know we like the same guys, right?
Rackk and RUin – WAIT! I got confused, I thought you were talking about this Jamie, the photographer http://www.ohjamie.com ! They are both babes.
I think we were twins sep at birth. Finally someone who understands!!!
Cupcake
My husband got me a pair of Litas for Christmas & I am so excited about them! I don’t care what anyone says. I think they’re great & I will love them well after the frenzy dies out. I’m pretty sure I violate all of the rules mentioned above, except for the monkey fur bit. Fur just always seems inappropriate & it adds unnecessary inches to my already broadening figure. HA!
OK, but the one trend I’d like to see die is that of the broad, hard-brimmed circular black hat worn on the back of the head. I don’t know why, but those things bug the crap out of me. Also, I’m fairly sick of the regional uniform we’ve got going here in my neck of the woods- Women wearing Northface black polar fleece zip up jackets on every occasion, with some sort of athletic pants, HUGE diamond stud earrings, even bigger diamond ring, & an oversized LV logo bag. The whole trying-hard-to-look-like-you’re-not-trying-hard/fresh-from-the-trail/I-have-more-money-than-God look doesn’t appeal to me. Otherwise, I never say never.
I don’t want to see another pair of perfectly good boots ruined with an open toe.
I’m with Audi.
Wah! The link Crystal provided ‘killed’ me but I was proper cross that the blog has a pic of the falling down telephone boxes near my home!!
Annemarie deserves the quote of the year!
I’m with Annemarie on leopard print — I just love it too much. I am a tacky and fabulous old Italian lady at heart. It has to be done right, of course. And same goes for my circular brimmed hat. (My mum says it’s very Boy George. Love him, too.)
I, too, would like to banish open-toed boots, “anything Celine”, clogs, and Lita platforms. Also: sandals with the big canvas ankle straps that resemble ace bandages, ugly round-toed flats with pleated fabric usually or some other stupid detailing, Daphne Guinness, the whole fake ‘hard’ look with studs and tons of leather and an obsession with being ‘bad’ and ‘metal’ when the person wearing it is anything but and just doing it because it’s trendy
I didn’t know what the litas look like, now I know I googled it, they are not cute at all but if you wear them in front of me, I wouldn’t criticize you..I was bullied, so I know what it feels like.
Candy – I wouldn’t criticize you either! Unless you were a fashion blogger and you kept posing in them.
I know Sister, I think bloggers become too full of themselves after a few months of blogging and having fans that LOVE THEM AND THEIR FASHION ETC…. I am used to read a blog, I started reading last year and the girl is super nice, she has an intelligence but she became very popular and is now becoming full of herself and entitled. I think we should have a social study made to understand how a person can be unknown and then jumps and becomes so ful of herself. so strange! Sometimes I think they are like bullies because they dictate our way of thinking. Just an example: I would have never thought about wearing some types of clothes but now I can do it just by thinking one person did it on a blog. silly, i know…how can we explain?