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Flash
FASHION UPDATE
Prêt-a-rapporter:
The
return of the rock T-shirt
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It
is weird, the age-related fashion mix-up we're in. This week it hit
me that although I'm so old that M&S thinks it can't reach me,
I'm still young enough to stand in Topshop and want a Sid 'n' Nancy
(as in Vicious and Spungen) T-shirt.
Printed T-shirts, many of them of punk/rock/pop provenance, you see,
constitute the latest comeback trend, and I like it very much.
The way to wear them now is loose and drapey under a well-tailored
skinny blazer with tutu and/or leggings if you were born after 1980.
Or, if you have any conscious memory of Margaret Thatcher coming to
power, with trouser suits, or even (as a subversive surprise) under
a skirted power suit.
Fortunately, the shriek of my personal mutton-monitor going off prevented
me from carrying the Sid 'n' Nancy tee all the way to the checkout. |
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Galling
it may be, but being a fully paid-up member of that generation (with
the backstage passes to prove it) doesn't necessarily give you permission
to purchase: there comes a time when the right to wearing a rock tee
must be gracefully ceded to daughters.
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With that in
mind, I can magnanimously approve of all the repro-tour T-shirts that
are around at the moment (Led Zeppelin, Blondie, AC/DC, Radiohead,
to name but a few), while reserving a quiet smugness in the knowledge
that only the luckiest girls can own the originals (Vivienne Westwood's
Sex T-shirts all sold for upwards of £1,000 at Christie's Resurrection:
Avant-Garde fashion sale last week, just to put that in financial
perspective).
As for those of us who have been there and hoarded the T-shirts, I
think, on the whole, it's best to find something new, subtle and artily
themed.
Leopard spots are too brash, but line drawings and photo prints of
tigers, horses, unicorns and other fantasy beasts are looking pretty
great to me.
Wind a patterned scarf round the neck, and you've got an age-defeating
look. |
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-- Courtesy: The Telegraph
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