This Is A Big NO-NO! Shame On You J.Crew!

According to Fashion writer Leah Chernikoff, "last Friday, someone on the internet noticed that the model at the top of J.Crew’s women’s shoe page online looked like she had really hairy legs. Initially folks thought that it was a photoshop prank. But how very un-J.Crew! The real reason was that the model was simply wearing a pair of the brand’s lace tights ($22.50) that, in the “fawn” color, ended up making their models’ legs look more hairy than haute. Or, like an actual fawn’s legs.

The weekend was enough time for the “J.Crew Hairy Leg Tights” to become something of an internet meme and today the Daily Mail is reporting the story with the headline, “Somebody get the girl a razor! Trendy tights that appear to make legs look HAIRY take internet by storm!”

So, in what seems to be an effort to quell the “internet storm” that has been brewing over the tights, J.Crew has switched out the lace tights in “fawn” for a pair of black patterned tights that are, unquestionably, tights.

J.Crew is still selling the lace tights, in “fawn,” and, they are still the pair that appear on the model in their accessories section."

Better question is, who would see this and choose to wear em? Not us kiddas! But there is a market out there for folks who don't have quite the tasteful aesthetic.



I mean there have been recent trends that have garnered an allegiance of followers. Ugg Boots? Big rapist-looking glasses along with plaid shirts, Arab scarves, and pretty much anything American Apparel ever produced since 2000. Those who ALWAYS wear Leggings as pants. Occasionally its cute. All the time, snoozefest! Expensive-As-Hell Destroyed Denim? The racks at Forever 21. Don't get me wrong, I own a few tops but I never make an entire outfit where I look like a window-mannequin that came trolloping out of 21. Oh and the nauseating Juicy Tracksuits. Can we say, uniform much?

I can go on and on but I think Fashion could potentially be some kind of a defense mechanism for those who understand it. Fashion can be interpreted as a kind of armour of your own personal intentions. It always boils down to the fact that society condemns what it doesn't understand. So instead of welcoming it, they ignore it and just become walking things.


OR...

You kiddas get the idea! Fashion, please don't put it all on me!