Wednesday 26 October 2011

This damned pattern again

Wallpaper ombre shirt, £45.

Topshop are flogging this design to death.  If you're a regular FailRailer - and I do hope you are, sirrah - you'll recall a shirtwaist dress whose charming combination of overdone floral and colour-block yellow invited sinners to everlasting damnation.  I see Topshop have attempted to soften the pattern with a blue border detail, but all this does is suggest to onlookers the queasy sensation of clinging desperately to the wreckage of a torpedoed warship, the horizon lurid with the flames.

One would have hoped Topshop were a little more frivolous, somehow.

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