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Did Alexander Wang just encourage underage drinking?

All I processed was:

• Tequila shots
• Some models are 16 or 17
• They need to get their runway jitters out

[via The Cut]

Yesterday, I found myself vainly saying, “I’m glad I can fit into these small sample sizes.” I wasn’t being a “skinny bitch” or even intentionally demeaning to girls who aren’t zeros or twos, it was simply a passing thought as I received a pre-fashion week incentive piece of clothing from my internship. I honestly didn’t think anything of the thought until I saw Beth Ditto’s cover of the first issue of LOVE magazine today.

It made me feel really terrible because I didn’t realize how shallow I can actually be. There are so many super fashionable people that aren’t size 2 or 4 or even 12 or 14. At 5’4″ with curves of my own, by no means am I a lithe model, but somehow I don’t tell myself and others that fashion isn’t just for the girls modeling the clothes in magazines or the styled celebrities, but it’s for everyone. Short or tall, big or small, normal or abnormal, fashion consumes you, even if you don’t mean for it to.

So here’s to all those women/men who make us swoon over their style no matter what. Thanks, Beth Ditto, for not trying to be an Olsen— not to say they aren’t stylish in their own right.

Photo Credit: Love Blog

Fashion week officially begins today, so here is the final schedule for Mercedes Benz Fall 2009 New York Fashion Week:

If all works out you can catch me running around the tents a little before and after 8PM on Wednesday.

Fashion Week hasn’t even started, and I’m completely over it. I’m exhausted and all the glamour and appeal went out the window about a month a go when I realized that helping put on a show is a thousand times more work than the actual act of going to a show. Still, I manage to love my internship at Tractenberg & Co. and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

I’m tired, loaded with homework, and trying to ignore the Valentine’s Day hoopla (who has the time anyway).

I will not neglect PRC, I will not neglect PRC!

I’ll post something interesting when I get some time.

I thought, when NY Mag’s The Cut blog petitioned Lady Gaga to stop openly displaying the control top of her pantyhose and maybe even to simply start wearing bottoms, she would be the only person bold enough to expose her control top, but walking to class yesterday, I surprisingly found out that I was sorely mistaken.

As I walked innocently to my Shakespeare class, I saw a girl with an inordinately short skirt. I was warm outside, compared to the below zero temperatures we experienced last week, so I don’t fault the girl for wanting to bust out her miniest of minis. However, why on Earth did she not think to check that the line on her pantyhose that says, “Hey! This is where the ass should go,” isn’t exposed.

I know what you’re thinking, “perhaps her skirt rode up a bit, but the exposed demarcation wasn’t just peaking beneath her skirt. It was clearly visible, at least an inch below the hem of the skirt.

Honestly, I feel like if you are wearing a skirt and the bottom of your control top pantyhose is showing, your skirt is too short. You should probably re-evaluate your choice of bottoms and try again.

When it comes to Lady Gaga, I won’t critcize because she makes her living off being “in your face,” and showing her tush is definitely bold and at one point was unexpected.

So, all you exhibitionists, leave the control top exposures to the professionals. If you want to wear short skirts and like the boudoir-esque appeal, try pretty trimmed thigh highs and a garter. It might make you look like you should be in a brothel, but at least I won’t roll my eyes in exasperation as I pass you.

Photo Credit: F Listed