Fug

So I was looking at some sweaters online today at Style.com and I found myself thinking OMG WTF?! Now mind you, I like clothing that is really out there. I tend to describe my style sense as "absurd" or "ugly, but in a good way" as demonstrated by my odd poofy-sleeve-fascination (Am I the only one who loves poofy sleeves? I hardly see anybody else wearing them, despite their abundance in stores.) which began with Tom Ford's last collection for YSL Rive Gauche and this jacket in particular. (I sound like much more of a fashion whore than I really am, I only know about Tom Ford because I saw a picture of the jacket in a magazine and tried to figure out just how much out of my price range it really is.)

In any case, when looking through fashion runway photos, my reactions are usually limited to varying degrees of interest, with the worst being "boring" or "not my style". I rarely think anything is over-the-top *bad*. For example, I loooooooved Santino's lingerie collection on Project Runway right down to the freaky deer makeup.

So what actually made me react badly enough to share with you? First up, WTF is on the faces of Junya Watanabe's models? Can they actually see???

Oh, spiked bondage type masks, of course!

I'm all for BDSM inspired fashion wear, but metal/leather head masks as well as KNITTED versions of the same thing? Hrm. Ok, the more I think about it, it's not that bad and an interesting use of knitwear. See, I just talked myself out of disliking the head masks except for practical reasons. (As an aside, I generally think that practicality has no place in fashion. I would rather see an absurd gold thong and see-thru mesh top with nipples popping out and extremely uncomfortable heels rather than jeans and a t-shirt. Not that I don't usually wear jeans and a t-shirt myself, but my reasons for doing so don't really have to do with practicality as much as an unrelated psychological barrier that I am still trying to overcome. That is, I don't want to appear to be impractical even though I actually want to be impractical. Somehow I feel that in my strange geeky corner of the world, it would be frowned upon to try too hard to look nice, so I buy pretty clothes and wear them at home. No, seriously, I do this. I sometimes walk around in heels at home, trying to work up the courage to look nice in public and then change into jeans and a t-shirt to go out. It doesn't really make sense, forget I said anything.)

Anyway, back to the ugly clothing. I don't think I can rationalize what follows as being non-ugly. The ugliness is just so appallingly self-evident to me that I am extremely boggled by it. I'm only talking about one article of clothing from D&G's fall collection.

I actually quite like the rest of the knit goods, but WTF is up with the knit diapers? DIAPERS. KNIT. Apparently, it's not just D&G. Kenzo's got a version of knit short shorts, but at least they're not diaper white and could theoretically be considered shorts instead of diapers. I classify this as "neat looking on the model, but probably really ugly in real life."

Oh yeah, and this outfit I don't think is so bad, except that the model looks like he is trying to look scary and is utterly failing.