And let me tell you... I've spotted something that has made me 'purse my lips'.
KNIT SWEATERS!!!
Alright alright! So I'll admit they look warm and... nice and stuff... I mean it beats a black hoody every other day...
BUT
BUT!
I recall I the movie The Devil Wears Prada a not so fashion savvy character named Andy wears a sweater almost exactly like that one! The only difference is the color! And I remeber the line where Miranda royally chews her out!
[taken from imbd because I actually do not remember it word for word]
Miranda Priestly: [Miranda and some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit. Andy sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same] Something funny?
Andy Sachs: No, no, nothing. Y'know, it's just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. Y'know, I'm still learning about all this stuff.
Miranda Priestly: This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.
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Who honestly would want to wear a knit sweater after a character who represents the fashion industry just cast it aside? Sure the cerulean blue was complimented in one way or another, but Miranda obviously has a great distaste for it and Andy's sheer ignorance for the industry she has been immersed into.
Old Navy (the place where I took the product picture from) isn't the only one who is producing this line of clothing in which Miranda does not look fondly upon! Love Culture and who knows how many other stores are selling these knit sweaters as well!
Then again, maybe I'm over reacting... I mean things go in and out of fashion as quickly as a child gobbles up a chocolate bar. The movie was released in 2006 and filmed probably several years before that. The information could be wrong and Miranda might not look down upon Andy's sweater 'from a pile of stuff. Not to mention I keep hearing of clothing coming in and out of style in cycles. Perhaps the blue sweater has come back into style and I'm just unaware of this.
Long story short, what would Mirandy say about this? Would she accept these sweaters now?
Because they look quite cosy.
