Third Time Lucky
The Age
Saturday December 9, 2006
I have had many run-ins with bibs, braces and bubble skirts. Starting with a Blue Light disco sometime in the mid-'80s where I tried to foist my coveted Smiths 45s on Constable DJ, only to be met by a sea of angry adolescent bubblers and breast-defining suspender-sporters. Not that I have anything against any of these styles. Indeed, I have pondered collective nouns for groups of them (a scum of bubble skirts, a levity of bubble skirts, a constriction of braces). It's just that they never seem to quit. In the '90s I was still harangued by friends whose big racks were pushed aside, braces attached to white jeans, and bubble skirts were still sighted at the odd wedding. Even I thought it might be a good idea to wear denim bib jeans (never in the queue at Chasers and never in yellow). And now it seems the zenith has arrived - Mischa knows it and so does half of Melbourne. So get stuck in now: this coming third decade is the big one for bubble skirts (and bib tops). It is all downhill from there.
Die Pretty Bubble Skirt Black Pinafore, $159 from Curious Eidolon, 80 Johnston Street, Fitzroy. 9417 0399.For daily fashion and weather forecasts: michigirl.com.au
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