Amanda[…] Why are you dressed like somebody died?
Wednesday: Wait.
--- Addams Family Values
The LBD! Of course! THE wardrobe essential ever since we ditched corsets (what a great day that must been, all those sudden deep breaths and pin-ups asking for their ribs to be re-inserted). Everyone should have at least one LBD in their wardrobe!
Anyway, this is going to be a pretty short blog entry. So much has been said (and is still being said) about the LBD, that I don’t think we need even more information about it. It is THE essential, and I'm wearing one right now while typing this just to make a point (a little Country Road loose wool jersey thing, with long sleeves and a tie at the neck). The key trick is finding the Perfect LBD, if such a beastie even exists. I think it must involve an improbable convergence of timing, sizing, pricing and planetary alignment.
If you don’t have a LBD, hopefully you have something which functions for it – a little brown dress, or a little navy dress or a … well, I just can’t think of what on earth else you’d use, really.
It will take a fashion revolution of a scale not seen since the 1920s to topple the LBD from its throne. Any usurpers out there?
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Every time some fashion person says there is something replacing the LBD, you know the replacement will go out of date faster than fresh milk.
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