I came to another important fashion realisation watching this year’s National Television Awards, it goes like this: if you are going to insist on wearing only half a dress, at least make sure the half you wear fits you.
I mean, poor Sam Faiers: if you’re going to wear a hideous dress love, at least wear it well.
And whilst Ms. Faiers could have benefited from putting some more fabric on, her co-star Ferne McCann could have done with leaving some of the superfluous inches at home.
Who would have thought that leaving too much or too little to the imagination could lead to the same sartorial nightmares? And yet, this dichotomy was perfectly demonstrated by the duo last night on the red carpet at The National Television awards 2015.
Both questionable choices in their own right, the dresses were made unquestionably worse by their ill-fitting awkwardness. Perhaps we can forgive celebrities their lack of style, but can’t they at least make their wrong choices in the right size?
As someone who is frequently faced with the reality of being a “size 11”, between retail stock options, I understand the predicament, really I do. But, after years of aiming to slim or plump into outfits, I have realised it doesn’t matter how amazing the item is, or how much you want it in your wardrobe; it will look hideous if it is too big or too small. Even the most beautiful, most expensive item (as no doubt the offending pieces on the carpet were last night) will look awful if it doesn’t fit you.
Yet again, I find that a few simple rules may be applied to this minefield:
- If it doesn’t fit immediately, it probably wasn’t meant to be, so don’t buy it.
- Try picking clothes off the rail by eye, rather than trying to label your size.
- Consider this: it is the item that is the wrong size, not you.
And, if all else fails on a particular day, head to a shoe shop, where fabulousness is more or less guaranteed: it must have been a very bad run for Ms. McCann.
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