Fashion faux pas aren’t just ugly, they’re downright dangerous.

WHY do so many of us, especially women, wear clothes that make us look ridiculous and shoes that mutilate our feet? I am one of those people who should always take an adviser when they go shopping. I have made some hideous choices over the years. My greatest fashion crime was a little pale blue, terry towelling, zip-up-the-front ”playsuit”. A sort of shorty-shorts and top all in one. I was 21, and on a bright summer day, out I ventured on my shiny red Honda motorbike wearing the playsuit. I also had on my red and black anarchist’s crash helmet. (A police officer once asked me if I barracked for Essendon. I said I did.) Read the rest of this entry »