Mutton Dressed As Lamb? What Carol (Vorderman) wore

The headline was, " Ballad Vorderman shows off her figure in skintight acme and jeans " and the debate was, rather predictably, should a woman of l be wearing this outfit?

And so you may or may not take seen this photo of Carol Vorderman leaving Telly studios last week in jeans and a tight peak… what a furore her casual outfit caused. The manner/historic period argue reared its quondam, ugly, head again with the Daily Postal service stating that "not many 50-year-old women could wearable that". Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you lot the media'due south thinly disguised (but heavily implied) example of Mutton Dressed As Lamb. A subject close to my centre obviously, considering the whole Not Dressed Every bit Lamb thing I've got going on.

I have pondered this for the by calendar week or so, considered the media's have on her outfit, and read the readers' observations. Personally, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid at information technology without the implied mutton comments. Just as it was brought to my attending, whether for the correct or wrong reasons, I struggled to work out why the outfit seemed then… wrong. And I call up it was the fact that I wouldn't have batted that eyelid that made me realise exactly why.

I could see all sides of the statement:

Firstly: She has a fantastic effigy and tin pull off this outfit, with added lewd comments (mostly men). Secondly: No, she shouldn't be wearing such a 'young' outfit at her age (mostly women). And finally, a certain TV presenter refuses to accept that age should ever dictate how a adult female dresses (Carol Vorderman).

Carol, I totally agree.

But it suddenly dawned on me what my problem with it was. Information technology'due south not a mutton dressed every bit lamb thing at all. I was surprised that no-i brought up what I considered to exist the real trouble hither: information technology's merely a horrible outfit. Supposedly information technology should exist worn by someone thirty years younger; somehow I merely tin't see this ensemble looking skillful on anyone. Imagine a immature Hollywood starlet in those jeans and top (delete as appropriate): Blake Lively? No. Cherry Johansson? Definitely not. Mila Kunis? No, no, no. Unfortunately the top looks like she dug it out from the back of her wardrobe from the pile she marked "charity store" accumulated 15 years ago, not to mention there's too much information underwear-wise. Wearing jeans that look erstwhile-fashioned (early Nineties Ballad?) e'er make older women look frumpy, and these do her Rear of the Year no favours at all. Surely Ballad can do meliorate than this, fifty-fifty dressing casually?

Thank you to this particular headline I've finally worked out my ain theory behind dressing for your historic period when you're over a certain historic period (and I believe that it applies to 40+). My take is that in that location's only two rules to get it right:

1. Dress either classic or edgy or a mixture of both. For example,
Classic: Anna Wintour, Jennifer Aniston, Carmen Dell'Orefice.
Edgy: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary Portas, Gwen Stefani.

2. Avoid dressing tarty.
And I mean steering totally clear of it because information technology's not about whether your effigy tin have it – believe me Carol is in amazing shape. Tarty (by that I hateful cleavage, legs and heels, not as a derogatory term) is a high-maintenance style that can only be pulled off successfully by a adult female of a certain age group, the all-time example being the girls from TOWIE. (It goes back to what I was saying in my OMG vs Meh mail service, that I'm a dandy laic in women being able to article of clothing whatever they like, they just need to brand sure they brand a big endeavor – those girls really put in the work when information technology comes to their appearance.) Exposing that much flesh highlights all the saggy $.25 that are by and large unavoidable when y'all're over 40; surely y'all desire people to notice your fabulous outfit, not your crêpey skin?

Ms. Vorderman herself admitted that she "bought the T-shirt from Topshop x years agone and information technology toll £3.99". Delight don't inflict such sloppy dressing on u.s., Carol; y'all're letting downward yourself, the public and Mr. Roland Mouret every time you follow up your bootylicious Galaxy dress with an old jersey top and ill-plumbing fixtures jeans.

In the words of Neil Sedaka:

"Oh! Carol
I am but a fool
Darling I love y'all
Though you lot treat me cruel
You hurt me
And you make me cry".

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