Midi Touch (posted on 20/07/2011)

You could think once a trend has been featured and elaborately praised in Britain’s Vogue it is worth a try?

Be wary though of the midi, which comes across as a saintly midas touched skirt but in reality fails to deliver. It is questionable if fashion’s style bible can be trusted on the newest fashion gem or gimmick, the aforementioned midi. One is led to believe that the midi –a fashion parlance for skirt with a particular length that hits just below the knee but well above the ankle- is able to cover the female’s most unalluring of assets, the knees, and thus make the legs look longer and more polished creating “a slow-burning, sweetly quixotic statement of style”, according to Vogue’s editor Harriet Quick. This so called new hemline is not new per se on fashion’s shores but rather a familiar friend that has been laid ad acta and is now re-introduced to our fashion closets.

Take a look at Miu Miu’s fall 2011 ready-to-wear interpretation of the look. Where it not for the heavenly Mariacarla Boscono to present this look, it would have lost on all accounts instantly. The Vogue editor calls this emerging midi trend “pleasurable simplicity” wanting of “drama of the maxi or youth of the mini”. But clearly the delectable Boscono in the Miu Miu offering is certainly not lacking in the drama department. Furthermore, simple is the last word that comes to mind when laying eyes on this concoction.

Now dear reader let me speak frank with you. This is no trend for the real woman. The midi covers the knees but brings out EVEN MORE the calves and ankles, the bigger evils here. This is where the real drama begins. But behold, if you are a modern day lolita in the body of a Gisele or Elle, then do not shy away of this clever instrument of power, the midi, as it can turn any man to a crouching tiger if packaged correctly.