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| From animated fun to catwalk chic: dungarees are back | |
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| It's no surprise to anyone aged over 15 that fashion is a circular affair. There is a limit to how many ways we can be clothed. But the biggest trend for this summer has to be unique in having been borrowed from toddlers and an animated builder. | |
| Welcome back to the dungaree, now selling in extraordinary numbers. The characteristic braces, straps and bibs were to be seen earlier this month on hipsters at Coachella, the California music and arts festival that kicked off this year's festival season for globe-trotting rich kids. | Welcome back to the dungaree, now selling in extraordinary numbers. The characteristic braces, straps and bibs were to be seen earlier this month on hipsters at Coachella, the California music and arts festival that kicked off this year's festival season for globe-trotting rich kids. |
| At the festival, which is becoming known more for its fashion than its bands, models and celebrities were being "papped" in their dozens wearing dungaree shorts, pinafores and bib playsuits. | |
| Style-setters on this side of the Atlantic, such as Pixie Lott and Alexa Chung, have apparently been buying them in bulk. Chung has been photographed in half a dozen different styles this spring. | Style-setters on this side of the Atlantic, such as Pixie Lott and Alexa Chung, have apparently been buying them in bulk. Chung has been photographed in half a dozen different styles this spring. |
| Stella McCartney has created a flared set and a shorts set this season, both of which are pretty much sold out, despite the lack of any sustained period of bare legs weather on the British horizon. | Stella McCartney has created a flared set and a shorts set this season, both of which are pretty much sold out, despite the lack of any sustained period of bare legs weather on the British horizon. |
| Asos, the online fashion store, says dungarees are selling a storm. "All dungarees are performing well at Asos this season. From soft, tailored, jersey styles through to casual denims, we can't get enough of them," said Rachel Morgan, Asos womenswear's head of buying. | |
| "Dungarees can be so versatile – luxury fabrications, such as leather, and adaptations in shape have made them much more of a fashion statement. The Asos girl is styling her pair of dungarees with a blouse or crop top this summer.'' | "Dungarees can be so versatile – luxury fabrications, such as leather, and adaptations in shape have made them much more of a fashion statement. The Asos girl is styling her pair of dungarees with a blouse or crop top this summer.'' |
| Designer Henry Holland sent several pairs down the catwalk with a retro intent, in floaty floral and bright prints. "The spring-summer '13 show harked back to 90s dressing," he told the Observer, "and the dungaree was an essential part of the wardrobe of this decade." | Designer Henry Holland sent several pairs down the catwalk with a retro intent, in floaty floral and bright prints. "The spring-summer '13 show harked back to 90s dressing," he told the Observer, "and the dungaree was an essential part of the wardrobe of this decade." |
| In fact, they have been a stalwart of most decades, whether you remember them on James Dean and Doris Day in the 1950s, on plumbers and hillbillies in the 60s, or from the 70s, when long-haired men from Roger Daltrey of the Who to the Stones' Ronnie Wood were all wearing them tight and faded. | |
| They will also bring on an attack of fashion flashbacks for those who remember braces and bibs hanging off the shoulders of Bananarama or Dexys Midnight Runners in the 80s. In the 90s it was the turn of clubbers and acid house ravers, while a masked, chainsaw-brandishing Eminem looked sinister in his 10 years or so later. But until now, the 21st century had seen the dungaree – or "overall", as the Americans call them – mostly left to children and cartoon character Oor Wullie and the animated Bob the Builder. | |
| Fashion editors may be warning their readers to be careful how they tackle the dungaree trend, but the Observer questions why any garment should be just for the excessively long-limbed or young. Ignore anyone who tells you they are for pregnant ladies painting their nurseries and remember how Meryl Streep hooked Pierce Brosnan while wearing a pair in the 2008 film Mamma Mia. Although for men? Perhaps not … | Fashion editors may be warning their readers to be careful how they tackle the dungaree trend, but the Observer questions why any garment should be just for the excessively long-limbed or young. Ignore anyone who tells you they are for pregnant ladies painting their nurseries and remember how Meryl Streep hooked Pierce Brosnan while wearing a pair in the 2008 film Mamma Mia. Although for men? Perhaps not … |