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Author Marlene Sørensen clarifies questions of good taste. Of course, extremely subjective. This time it's about: Sack clothes

Men are really funny. Recently I stood at a house party - where you go just since you no longer go to houseparty - next to three friends and my friend Georg. I was wearing my new high-cut jeans that night. "Is that what you wear now, yes?" One of my friends asked me. "You have to!" I called.

Said Georg: "Who says?" I said: "Chloé! H & M! All!" He shouted back: "Chloé, Schmoé, high jeans are stupid, they will never prevail!" I laughed at him. First, laugh is much more effective than discussing. And second, I'll be right anyway.

Exactly the same thing Georg said a few months ago about bag dresses.

And now? Now they are everywhere. Ahahaha. Ha!

Actually, he is right: Sackkleider - if you were nice, you would call them tunics, but who is in the fashion business already nice - look extremely stupid. Like maternity wear. Only this does not occur to anyone since she suddenly wears everyone and, according to my calculations, will wear for at least another season.

The trend has settled.

You should just be beaten. Why? Because you have so much more fun than the boring people who just do not join a trend because it's a trend. Mowing. In addition, the bag dress is a very democratic garment: All look the same shapeless, Gisele Bundchen as I do. This is a good way to get away from direct comparison with Gisele.

Incidentally, one should not be put off by the fact that the tunics in the shop hang as lifeless as an old smock on the clothes rail.

Paired with a pair of dangerously high ankle boots, it looks like Stella McCartney hopped off the catwalk. And when do you ever have the opportunity to be fashionable so far ahead and at the same time have it comfortable? Sackclothes are very comfortable. And they always fit.

Should it happen that one is spontaneously invited to a cocktail reception from the office, one simply wraps a wide belt, which one has for such eventualities of course, around the garment and - voila - one wears a fancy evening dress. If you want to take a snack after the boring cocktail reception: Belt off and no one sees the kebab sandwich!

Probably also here therefore all wear black and gehzeltweit (Today in the corridor: "Prada?" "Nope, Zara." "Geil!"). More likely, though, because these clothes, like good fashion, make you feel like you should not sit in the office. But with a gorgeous brooding Frenchman hurrying hand in hand through Paris, say, on the way to a small private concert chez Carla Bruni.

However, the biggest advantage of bag dresses is, and I should have said that to George:

As long as we wear them, you will not notice so much of the leggings we wear underneath. He likes that, the poor thing, not at all.

Never do it: Wear sturdy boots or flat shoes. Exception: Ballerinas. But only together with a 40 den pantyhose.

Make absolutely: To compensate for the playful dress, the hair tight. The brave can shorten the hairstyle to Jean-Seberg-length.

Do not forget: eye-catching accessories such as cocktail rings or long chains. The handbag: big. Otherwise she goes down in the clothes.

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