Shoulder pads are tough… they used to be in everything, and I mean everything. You couldn’t buy a jacket without shoulder pads. I for one was always comfortable with my natural shoulder’s shape, but as shoulder pads faded away, I was happy because I could feel more dainty and feminine. Since Maison Martin Margiela has been padding it up, I’ve thought that it was interesting to look at on a model on the runway, and Style Bubble did some great styling with shoulder pads a few months ago. Until today, I haven’t seen anything that I really loved that had severe shoulder pads.
Rosenmunns, a pair of San Francisco-based designers made this wonderful shirt dress with the biggest shoulder pads, I’ve ever seen. For some reason, I just had to try it on… well, also because the Sydney half of Rosenmunns was in the shoppe at the time… but honestly, I was impressed how simple yet avant garde this dress was.
Trying on the shoulder pad dress was shocking at first. I felt like a football player. My boyfriend was said in his German accent, “I want to see you dancing to Kraftwerk in that dress.” But walking around, I felt a little like a 1940′s lady of leisure, or well, more like a 1980′s Dynasty hag.
The truth is, that this dress works for the super soft cotton jersey, and the fact that I feel beautiful in it, creative, smart and lovely, which is what a dress should really do for a woman.
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“The truth is, that this dress works for the super soft cotton jersey, and the fact that I feel beautiful in it, creative, smart and lovely, which is what a dress should really do for a woman.”
that line is really just the best!
oh, and i love the pinkish-mauve plus red tights combo!
That dress looks so amazing on you – did you buy it in the end?
oh, i really want to buy it, it’s $250… which isn’t bad, but i have to buy an slr camera before i buy any more dresses… in the end, i’ll probably buy the dress before i move to germany.
I spent Sunday afternoon writing and being inspired by girlie movies. In Pretty in Pink, in the scene where Duckie gets his heart crushed because Andy is going out with Blaine, i couldn’t get over Annie Pott’s shoulder pads on that 80s does 40s top she had on.
Great silhouette, but wow they were severe! I’m on the fence with the shoulder pads.
Oh wow, so simple and yet so adventurous! I think its a definite buy
lol, Kraftwerk, one of the best bands ever
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