Sock and Trainer Madness,
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| An operation for Stone in the Head Jan van Hemmeson (c.1500 -c.1575) Photo Credit: Wellcome Collection [Public Domain] |
The first item on the shopping list. A pair of knee-high socks that cost £380.
That's right. Nearly £400 for a pair of socks. Cost of living crisis? What crisis? But these are not ordinary socks. They are laddered, but not by the wearer. Dior's seamstresses are used to adding intricate details to the French house's ready-to-wear collections but the hot accessory in its Autumn/winter collection has been deliberately snagged.
The long black socks are made of distressed pointelle cotton with large holes... The lofty price hasn't put real-life customers off. The socks are sold out on the brand's website.
(The Times, 2022)
Perhaps Dior's seamstresses could add another dimension to their hole ridden socks? Offer to make small holes in their customers' heads to match those in their knee-high socks. At a price, of course.
Pre-Distressed Fashion
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Scarecrow, unknown artist Photo Credit: American Museum & Gardens [CC BY-NC] |
Wear a pair of purposely ripped jeans and someone older than you – stranger or family member, colleague or teacher – will pipe up with a comment along the lines of:
“You’ve got a hole in those jeans!” or “Did you pay extra for the rips?” Pre–distressed clothing brings out the look-at-the-young-aren’t-they-ridiculous instinct in the best of us.
So I can only imagine the censure that anyone daring/stupid (delete as applicable) enough to wear a pair of Gucci’s new spring/summer trainers would face when they step out. These are shoes that cost £615, look filthy and come in a range of stained colours with scuff marks.
(Rebecca Armstrong, The i, 2019)
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