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Susan Orlean Weighs In on the “Jeggings” Trend

Post reblogged from The New Yorker
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“On most people they look like hell, but, to be honest, they are very comfortable and functional, and are essential in the fashion silhouette of the moment, which is the inverted triangle consisting of masses of thick Medusa-like hair and a poufy tunic sort of top over pipestem legs and twelve-inch stiletto heels.”…

Read the rest of her post at her blog, Free Range.

Before now, I didn’t know that Jeggings were a thing.

I think that’s either really commendable or incredibly sad.
- leaning toward commendable
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  I was contemplating buying...pair… newyorker:
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  Comfortable. Check. Masses...hair. Check. Tunic. Bleh. Stiletto heels (how’s 4 inches?)....
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  I’ve mos def go...hair” on lock. Pipestem...heels, however,...
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  relevant to Korinna’s interests.
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  If we were still...college, I could totally see Sam
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  I’m with Susan. Jeggings look—...feel—fantastic…on women, I mean.
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  who pull off this...fifteen-year-old Russian girls…”
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  Before now, I didn’t know that Jeggings were...thing. I think that’s either really...
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  Amusing post. I particularly like the definition of fashion: “the triumph of the absurd remade into something highly...
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  “Jeggings” Trend
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