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Chasing Pavements (Part 3!)….& a bit of vogue!

So it’s almost time for London Fashion Week. The skinny & the gorgeous will be putting the finishing touches to their perfect pouts & flooding into London’s hippest nightspots this weekend. It’s 7 days of shows, after-shows &, in the case of some of those Camden Caners, the inevitable & occasional no-shows.

And no matter what your view may be on the `size zero’ debate, you’ve got to admit there is one saving grace which the stick-thin models bring to the lives of every commuter during Fashion Week. Those waif-like whippets must be the only group who could possibly collectively stand on the left-hand side of a tube escalator & still not be in the way. So let’s salute the skinnies!!

But what about the fashion? Well, to my mind there’s one area of the clothing world that could really do with the fashionista treatment – running gear. Obviously something which is close to my heart as I once again train for the London Marathon. And as the big day draws close, I’m starting to notice more & more runners pounding the pavements near where I live. Among them, a scary number of men in lycra, the evil figure-hugging fabric of the devil. A particular shocker is the high-visibility lycra all-in-one. Practical perhaps on those darker mornings, but it does make it look like the South East is experiencing an explosion in Erasure tribute acts.

I reckon it’s time for the haute couture trend-setters to drag running gear into the naughties. Mind you, give a free rein here to Jean-Paul Gaultier or Vivienne Westwood & they might have the Marathon runners all turning up on that Greenwich start-line dressed as rhinos or as any combination of the Village People.

Mmmm, perhaps lycra’s not so bad after all…& maybe a sports bra for my moobs, just to be on the safe side!

Big love

Gx

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Posted by Gareth John on February 08, 2008 at 09:59AM

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