Manual anti-fashion faux pas

Another casting error... a find stamped trendy, shopped in the euphoria of the moment and which we ultimately find unwearable. Do not panic ! With a bit of fashion flair, the odd turns into extra style. Solutions from the pros in four scenarios.Faced with the hypertrophy of trends (and their increasingly rapid turnover), it is difficult to be faultless when it comes to fashion shopping. Some days, our radar literally bugs: we set our sights on everything... and anything. Nobody is safe from a failure, including the well-informed experts whose dressing room is not free from oddities that are quickly regretted. However, there are recurring errors that we would dream of avoiding without succeeding. There is a solution for each problem: advice from professionals to counter the most common fashion faux pas...

1. I unearthed the rare pearl... like 30 million others!

The scene is familiar to us: one afternoon, we come out of a big fast-fashion chain, clutching the day's loot to our hearts... Bold shorts with an Aztec pattern that really have an effect – and the difference , we think! Or an extra trouser suit, with a superb floral print, which the vulgum pecus will not want. Except that the vulgum pecus, which bathes in the same collective unconscious fashion as us, had exactly the same desire at the same time. Result: in the street, everyone parades with the same piece which no longer has anything unique . Each season sees the phenomenon repeat itself, including for the most select brands: a must-have becomes a “new condition, never worn” item of clothing on eBay, because it has been seen and reviewed until the overdose.

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Let's remember the little gray trapeze coat, fur collar, two leather ties, from winter 2010-2011... Or the Liberty playsuit from the summer before! Is it serious? We notice that the it girls are no more protected than us from the I-am-the-first-woman-on-earth-to-wear-this syndrome. An example ? From Olivia Palermo to Poppy Delevingne, via Heidi Klum, the improbable pink and mauve tie-dye skinny jeans from the Paige brand, the Verdugo, is on all the stars' legs this spring... How are the pros doing? They are subject to the same temptations but they are cunning! Delphine Perroy, head of the Fashion department of "Madame Figaro", advises to assume its heavy trend purchase, "but you must appropriate it, by mixing it with your own wardrobe in what it can be most timeless". Translate: in the case of the floral suit, it is not worn as a total look. We mix the top or the bottom with our daily basics: little black jacket and pumps with the pants, for example. Isabelle Thomas, style advisor (1), suggests buying the season's gimmicks on foreign sites, such as Asos, Topshop, Urban Outfitters... "They too have yellow, Tex-Mex, seedlings floral galore, but necessarily much less seen than in the signs that have a storefront in France. »(1) isabelle@modepersonnel.com

2. My clothes are trendy... but don't go with anything

Powder pink, perforated, pretty proportions, in short irresistible, we wanted this little nude leather jacket. We have it now! But what to do with it when you don't have either the muslin petticoat or the coral 7/8 chinos, which would suit her so well – for us, that's another story! How to arrive at this romantic rock style seen in magazines and that most young French actresses seem to have instinctively, Clémence Poésy style? Especially since on reflection, our hair style is also not fitting: the fuzzy side ponytail is an impossible mission on our straight bob... These cruel questions are of course valid for any other incongruous object of desire. in our wardrobe. It's serious ? UFO clothing is a classic fashion casting mistake, because every one of us dreams of being someone else from time to time. Two options. Either it remains in the wardrobe like a beautiful museum object, we contemplate it from time to time while fantasizing of wearing it one day. Either we embark on a ruinous shopping campaign to complete it - shoes, top, bag, glasses... - which leaves us just as unsatisfied, because there will always be something missing from the ideal outfit that doesn't look like us not. How do the pros do it? They precisely free themselves from the concept of prefabricated panoply. Delphine Perroy is formal: “We must allow ourselves to be more rational than the creators. The leather jacket? Yes, but worn without overdoing it, like a jacket, with a shirt, a pencil skirt and chic heels.

You don't build your look around him. It is he who integrates with ours. Ditto for the famous urban pajamas in striped silk. A daredevil idea when you're not Greta Garbo? “No, if you only keep the shirt, very smart under a blazer. Or very easy with slightly worn jeans. Isabelle Thomas advises laying the newly acquired alien flat on her bed, mixing it with her other clothes to find the right silhouette. “You have to try these experiments without preconceived ideas, without even thinking about yourself, just because you think they're pretty... In general, the result works very well. »

3. My outfit is sublime... but not my age

This vanilla skater dress, this white Peter Pan collar, these polka dot slippers, we found them pretty fresh and preppy in the fitting room, even without having the size or the age of Alexa Chung. But in use, let's confess, you feel disguised as an old young girl. Betting on a piece that is too girly or conversely too ladylike is a highly risky pitfall every season. A pleated skirt at the wrong length (like this trendy but terrible mid-calf!) and you immediately take fifteen years and a one-way ticket for a pilgrimage! It's serious ? Again, no one is safe, even with a stylist guru around. Actress Carey Mulligan, just 27, often tends to dress as a lady on red carpets. Conversely, Madonna, according to her teenager Lourdes, would steal her daughter's shorts. Between these two extremes, each of us often has in mind a sort of ideal age (mostly around thirty) which we sometimes find difficult to give up, even a few years later. Which explains our sometimes risky choices. How do the pros do it? For our two experts, once evacuated the obvious gross faults, having the age of one's clothes is above all a question of accessorizing. “The principle being to break what a style may have marked, recommends Delphine Perroy. For example, we don't wear too much hair when we wear a dressy outfit. »

High-heeled sandals in rustic wood (Swedish Hasbeens, Valérie Salacroux) have a proven anti-nunuche effect on any somewhat cutesy garment. While ballet flats, even derbies, especially pastel ones, produce exactly the opposite effect. Big jewelry (cuffs, breastplates, earrings, etc.) modernizes or “adultizes” everything. “As for the ethnic belt or the denim jacket over a skirt, these are radical tricks to make an outfit less girly,” concludes Isabelle Thomas.

4. My look is avant-garde... but not fashion-compatible

Some days, our wardrobe inspires us with bold, sometimes even risky biases. We proudly dare associations that are a priori improbable, creating a mix and match of ethnic prints or a pleasant mix of fifties geometric patterns, very Marni spirit. Being avant-garde gives us wings... but also a lot of doubts. With polka dots on checks, are we trendy or ridiculous? Are we a misunderstood aesthete? Or a clown who ignores himself? The current trend of mixing everything with no apparent concern for matching colors – too bourgeois! – must be handled with great care. It's serious ? The fashion blogosphere continues to popularize new looks, which most of the time find outrageous. An example ? Stylist Elisa Nalin, a reference for “style hunters”, and her sometimes borderline take-it-or-leave-it mixes... How do the pros do it? Our two experts value the principle of strong associations: “This gives more strength to very or too classic clothes when they are worn separately. We can therefore mix without damage a shirt with flowers and a jacket with large checks, or large flowers with polka dots.

"Provided you stay in the same shades," warns Delphine Perroy. This season, the trendiest will dare to mix very graphic prints (polka dots, swirls, triangles...). The only condition to avoid the fashion drama: “Be limited to two primary colors. Plus a touch of black. And that's all ! »