A terrible start to 2013 menswear trends

Following my previous post 'Women Should Wear the Trousers' I now feel urged to challenge what is APPARENTLY now acceptable legwear for men...

I'll start by explaining how the apparent 'trend' has come about...

• Once upon a time someone invented tights without feet. They called them leggings. Women wore them under their skirts and dresses.

• One day, some slut decided that since leggings had no feet, they were pretty much trousers. 'Less is more, right?'

• Well, the trend soon caught on, and before we knew it even the most obese pink-thong-wearing women were wearing them too. Yeah, I know for a fact it was pink. I could see everything.

• So then some bright spark decided to make leggings look like jeans. Clever clogs! They called them 'jeggings'.

• Before long, even trousers came in legging-form, under the name 'treggings'.

Now... low and behold, someone has decided to take things one step further and offer the very same stretchy concoctions for the likes of men:

Oh dear.

Conveniently enough they go by the name 'meggings'. How original. Will every letter of the alphabet soon become an affix for some sort of '-eggings'?

Anyhow, according to the Telegraph they are "taking the fashion world by storm". Some news that is! Why can't the papers only print happy stories, huh?!

Personally, guys in skin tight clothes freak me out altogether. 

I've never been overly keen on a guy in skinny jeans. Me and the 'muscle man wearing UNDERsized All Saints t-shirt' trend never quite hit it off either.

Did any ladies actually enjoy such guilt-free exposure of men's bodies? Hmm.

Either way, meggings definitely take things way too far in my opinion. The 'if you've got it, flaunt it' rule should NOT apply to men’s, ahem, packages.

Eugh. Cringe. Icky...

Take men in Speedos. Hot? Nooo!

Put it away! I don't want to see that! It's always old men or cocky, body-confident, arrogant guys that wear speedos too - which makes things even worse. Double yuck.

Women wear tight fitting clothes all the time, I know... But men just shouldn't, OK?

That's my opinion. Does it make me sexist?

I do hate to judge on first impressions. But guys, unless you're some performance act - like the frontman of The Correspondents or The Darkness - then just don't go there. Please <3

And ladies, just answer me one question:

Would you date a guy who wore meggings?

Women should wear the trousers

If women can wear the trousers in our relationships, why not wear them on our legs? No, not jeans. Not leggings. Trousers, darling, trousers...

Right now I think us women are a little too carried away with dresses, dresses, and more dresses. I, for one, don't like to dress the same as every other woman on the planet.

Reset your habits and open your wardrobe up to trousers.

I'm not telling you to cut out dresses completely. Why would I say that? But trousers are the way forward.

Whether it's for a daytime date, evening dinner, or an all-nighter, trousers can be worn on ANY occasion.

After all, people who abide by the following are just plain boring:

• daytime = floral dress or t-shirt/ jeans, pumps

• evening = cocktail dress/ court shoes

• all-nighter = short, tight dress/ same old classic court shoes, or up-the-bum shorts/ cropped vest top

The way that a lot of women dress when they're on all-nighters does really wind me up sometimes. Why dress like the prostitutes I saw around Asia? Sure, you want to look sexy. But you also want to look classy, sophisticated and fashionable, right? Maybe even a little bit edgy?

So here's some inspiration from some super cool fashionistas on Lookbook.nu to show you how fabulous you could look in trousers:

DAYTIME LOOK:

EVENING LOOK:

ALL-NIGHTER LOOK:

All you have to do now: HEAD OVER TO MY 'TROUSERS' BOARD ON PINTEREST. You will find all of my favourite trustworthy 'trews' available online. Just click on the images of the trousers you like and you will be re-directed to the site of purchase. So now you too don't always have to look like yet another girl in a pretty frock!

Will trousers be making more of an appearance in your wardrobe from now on? Let me know your thoughts :)

Fabric nightclub 11/01/13: WTF?

Dosed up to the eyeballs on cheap wine, two excited young ladies stumbled into Fabric on a Friday night ready to get down low to some dirty bass. What was to happen next was quite unexpected...

Fabric nightclub + Friday night = drum & bass. Standard. Right?

Room 1

In we bopped. The crowd was huge, hyped and absolutely loving it. Cool. 

The music... Drone, drone, flipping drone. 

What is this sh**?!

Well, lets not dismiss it just like that. Lets try to feel the vibe, this IS Room 1 after all. All the best artists play Room 1. 

We shut our eyes. Did everything we possibly could to try to feel the music and ride the vibe. 

It's just not happening. 

"Lets try Room 2, I can't take this anymore."

Room 2. 

O......K then. Same stuff. Is this even a different room? Sounds exactly the same.

Right now I'm confused.

Agh. I feel as if I've been sober for the past year. Where did all that wine go? 

Frustation is setting in. We are in dire need of some good vibes, or at LEAST some form of a bassline to keep us going. Off to the next room... Third time lucky, please!

Room 3

And just like that, our hopes and dreams crumbled to the ground. It was as if we had opened our Christmas prescent from Santa in excitement, just to find a pile of dog poo wrapped in a gold ribbon. 

...A huge, obese gold ribbon! The place was full. SO full. Yet SO bad. SO SO SO bad.

Just listen to this rubbish:



...Make it stop, make it stop!

Seriously?

I've never heard anything like this before in my life. And that's not a good thing this time, damn it.

100% we actually couldn't have stumbled across anything worse. How - in the name of the God which I don't believe in - could there possibly, ever, EVER, be worse music in the world? 

If this utter crap drags hundreds of people to a club with an £18 entrance fee, how much worse does music get?

Am I missing something?

Is this some kind of insane music which only works when you're high as a kite? I did have one guy, chewing his face off, ask me for some gum. 

But that's not unusual. It's everywhere.

Plus, I think you'd have to be higher than the moon on the hardest drugs possible to enjoy this musical vomit. That guy asking for gum could speak perfectly fine... 

I just don't get it.

Don't get me wrong, I love music. I really do. I'm one of those people who, when you ask what my favourite music is, I can't tell you.

I don't just dismiss stuff 'cause I think it's not my scene.

My musical tastes are so diverse. I like everything from jazz, to house, all the way to metal. Not all of it, obviously. Just the good stuff within each genre.

But this? Hell no!

Pretty pretty please, help me, if you will....

Put me out of my misery and tell me what the appeal is with Ben UFO and the like?

AlunaGeorge makes my ears tingle

Seeking something to satisfy my constant craving for new sounds, I came across the gorgeous AlunaGeorge, a honey-scented musical shower of refreshment for the ears.

AlunaGeorge's sweet-as-candy voice juxtaposed with strong bass, set on a backdrop of delicate beats and chilled-yet-funky rhythms is just delicious. 

Check this one out:

Gahhh!!! So beautiful. It really does make my ears tingle. It gets under my skin.

See... I love coming across new artists. I could search for hours before I find something truly yummy. The discovery of AlunaGeorge just reinforces the fact that, other than oxygen, food, water and sleep, I actually couldn't live without music.

I'm practically high on music right now.

So thank you, AlunaGeorge. And please, when you get big, don't start releasing generic crap. Mwah <3
 

What do you think of AlunaGeorge?