This afternoon, following my wig wash for the Costume Institute party, I saw a twentysomething woman on Fifth Avenue wearing a black knit top and boxy red hotpants, perhaps in a cotton sateen. Her look was not entirely successful (the conventional black pumps?), but an hour earlier, near Times Square, I happened to see a young Asian woman wearing a similar pair of hotpants in a stiff white fabric (with platforms). The effect was more flattering on her. I was intrigued on this warmish spring day: Will we see more of the look on the streets?
–Cathy Horyn, New York Times
Wait, I’m confused: are we supposed to be afraid because the hot pant/platform combo is making a comeback (for, like, the 37th time in five years), or because Cathy Horyn has her wigs professionally washed?
P.S. Cathy just posted an entry that began–I KID YOU NOT–“OMG”. Now, I’m afraid.
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