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Laddered tights. Fashionable or cheap?

Who doesn’t know that? You just bought a beautiful new dress and go to a cool party and after two minutes you realise that a huge ladder is running down your leg. That’s so annoying! However, when I saw the pictures of Kate Moss’ new collection for Topshop including laddered tights and more and more girls in Lund wearing that I started to wonder if trashed my old tights to early. Are they fashionable?

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Generally I am not really convinced by the idea of combining chic dresses with laddered tights. I think it looks somehow cheap. On the other hand, I do not think at all that Kate Moss looks cheap in laddered tights.

But her style and charisma is really a mystery as she looks elegant and egdy at the same time. Who else could combine a fur coat with laddered tights without looking cheap? Karl Lagerfeld said once that she looks like an elf, which I think perfectly describes her. This woman can have cocaine in her nose and still looks innocent and beautiful.

In other words, Kate Moss just never looks cheap. Not even in laddered tights. But I’m still not sure if I want to destroy my tights. Well, at least I have an excuse next time when I have a ladder in my tights. I just refer to Kate Moss’ latest collection for Topshop and say that I did this ladder on purpose.

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Screenshots: Topshop

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8 responses to “Laddered tights. Fashionable or cheap?”

  1. Marvin Allen says:

    You need a better pair of glasses love. She looks cheap most of the time. Chic cheap is her style.
    As for looking innocent and beautiful with cocaine up her nose: You need to grow up.

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  2. Sven says:

    Hey Marieka! Ich brauche mal Deine hilfe!

    Da du ja absolut Fashionbegeistert bist wolt ich dich mal fragen wo ich eine coole Indierock-stylische Winterjacke finden kann, ich will knaddelig gut aussehen in diesem Winter! Vorneweg sie soll nicht zu heftig sein(nachdem was ich hier alles sehe) Einfach nur cool stylisch und ein hauch verrückt, vielleicht haste ja ideen für mich…würde mich freuen

    LG Sven!

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  3. Gwrhyr says:

    I have to agree with Mareike on this one. When people have that elven look, it doesn’t matter whether there is cocaine on their nose or a bloody knife in their hand – the innocence in their features, stylistically and photographically speaking, makes it look like they simply stumbled upon something they didn’t understand.

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  4. kmbr says:

    Love Kate.

    Loved her and Peter D together. Too bad he’s completely off the rails, though.

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  5. mareike says:

    I love her also with Pete together! And Pete’s music! Too bad that he has drug problems!

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  6. mareike says:

    Ja, ich schau mal nach!

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  7. Sven says:

    das ist lieb…danke! schreib mir einfach per mail die addy müsstest d ja noch haben

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  8. Tori says:

    “In other words, Kate Moss just never looks cheap.”

    http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_03/katemoss1XPO1902_468×436.jpg

    Yeah, not true. But I often find myself wearing tights with runs in them. You just have to work it when you can’t afford to throw that stuff away.

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