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How do you wear the Lady Look?

So you could even go to tea for the Queen. Cape jacket: Longchamp. Sheath dress: Giambattista Valli via www.mytheresa.com. Gloves: Markberg. Shoes & Bag: Louis Vuitton. Pantyhose: Hawk.
Photo: Sabrina Theissen

Marlene tries it

New look - old question. Does it look well on me? How do I carry this? Author Marlene Sørensen dares a fashionable self-experiment every month. Her current test case: the lady look

I needed something from the supermarket at noon. Hardly in the store, I saw a former editor-in-chief, who, as far as I could remember, with the colleagues from the style department also discussed the pros and cons of Einstecktüchern. I ducked behind a shelf of canned fruit. I prefer to read the ingredients of pickled pineapple for a quarter of an hour when confronting this man in sweatpants, old T-shirts, and unwashed hair (hey, I work at home).

Yesterday I met him again in the supermarket, and this time there was no time to hide. Was not necessary. "You look ... good, " he said, surprised at the sight of my sheath, the cashmere jacket, and the cherry-red lipstick . "Not like someone who would rather not meet any acquaintance in the supermarket." This is how I imagine the time in the early sixties: You put on every opportunity as if you wanted to impress someone, and was therefore even dressed up as if shopping for a cocktail party . From where I know this? From the television series "Mad Men", which revolves around an advertising agency in New York in the 60s. The men in this world drink and go strange. Their wives are bored in the suburbs, or they are secretaries with whom the men are cheating. If the ladies are somehow struggling with this fate, they do not look at it.

On the contrary, the worse the location, the more perfect the facade. I do not work in an advertising agency (or I'm stuck in the suburbs), but the fashion of the day still looks like armor against an overly harsh environment. Belly in, chest out, head up - the dresses with narrow waists and concrete hard bustiers allow no other attitude than the best possible. Even housework is dignified in it (albeit fabulously awkward. Ever tried to cook a lasagna in sheath dress?). Some recognize this silhouette as "the new femininity". I would say: you just feel better equipped. Incidentally, the colleague in the supermarket was wearing a pair of jeans to make an inconspicuous jacket and looked a little like looking for the can with the canned fruit on the shelf.

Styling tips:

  • A nostalgic look like this looks easy on disguise. Carelessly appearing details, z. B. a looped belt, make him look more modern.
  • In a dress or skirt in midi-length always emphasize the waist.
  • Best accessory: a cat-eye sunglasses.

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