Wearable Clothes are T-Shirts and Polo Shirts!

Wednesday 06th of October 2010 07:24:31 PM

Wearable Clothes are T-Shirts and Polo Shirts!

The fashion shows are fun to watch because the clothes can be so outrageous. They make the sensible person cringe at the thought of wearing see through shirts to work or 6 inch spike heels while going to the grocery store. Yet each season the designers present their new fashions and the world reports on the runways with delight.

This fall/winter, the runways held a new surprise though. They used the “W” word with the w standing for that quite ordinary fashion feature called “wearable”. Wearable are clothes are the kind you and I would wear on a normal day for work, home or evening. In fact, some of the most avant-garde designers presented quite normal looking clothing that didn’t remind you of sculptures or chain link armor.

Instead of shock and awe there was mood and color. Instead of gauzy dresses only the thinnest woman could wear, there were slacks and polo shirts. The metal ruffles were replaced with quite plain designs.

The wearable clothing was a nice surprise for many. The fashions designed for the average woman didn’t look like party costumes and were for the most part quite versatile. The addition of pastel colors was another surprise too. Many of the clothes today are black and white, or black and some other color. But the wearable clothes had soft pastel clothes more like what the non-party animal woman enjoys wearing. The cool looking skirts would work well with either a dressy blouse or cotton t-shirts.

Even the creative personnel themselves came to the fashion shows dressed more practically. For example, David Wolfe is the creative director of the Doneger Group fashion consulting firm. He wore a jeans jacket, jeans and a polo shirt.

Maybe the fashion shows weren’t quite as much fun to watch this year, but for once the average shopper could actually find styles that would work at the office, on a date, or for lunch with friends. Silly was out and wearable is in and that is good news for many.