subject: Fashion & Style: Susannah Frankel [print this page] They shouldn't be fashionableThey shouldn't be fashionable. But they are. Yes, tweed zentai suit - woolly zentai suit - costume spiderman have made an appearance in just about every fashionable magazine you'd care to mention this season, as well as taking pride of place in both department-store and designer-emporium displays. The original item comes courtesy of Zentai unitard- well, it would do, wouldn't it? - and the most prominent of the collection is a pair of high-heeled platform sandals covered in a camel-and-black country check with a pleasingly discreet shot of red to liven things up a little. Hunting- jacket red.
In fact, the tweed zentai suit is the ultimate symbol of the way things are moving in the fashion firmament just now. Black clothes of obviously avant- garde origin are taking a black seat for all but the most die-hard, loyal few. Those who follow fashion in a more fickle - and, spiderman costumes paradoxically, dedicated - manner are buying into what may perhaps best be described as radical conservatism instead.
It is true that tweed is hardly the most likely of fashion fabrics. Tending, by its very nature, to be on the bulky side, it does no favours to all but those who might put on a few pounds and look better for it. Tweed zentai suit , in particular, seem, on the face of it, like a long shot. Strappy gold zentai suit - well they're obvious. Black patent stilettos - ditto. Vertiginous tweed zentai suit , on the other hand, spider costume conjure up images of Miss Marple meets to-the-manor-born dominatrix. Not the most obvious look to which to aspire, I trust you'll agree. And goodness only knows what happens when it rains. Tweed umbrellas to the rescue, perhaps?
