Tuesday, November 13, 2007
What the well-dressed man is wearing
MASCULINE! Trinny and Susannah Undress the Nation, ITV1, 8.00pm Labels: ITV1, Trinny and Susannah Undress, TV
What the fark is this? It's political correctness gone mad, we tell you. Trinny and Susannah have, in their quest to get the entire nation looking immaculately groomed, given over an entire show to making sure that men know what they should be wearing. Men! Do they even know what they're getting themselves into? Do they not realise there'll be no naked boobs to grab? (Well, there might be, depending on the men in question.) What kind of fuckery is this?
Actually, it's not really that great a change, since they've been dealing with both genders on Trinny and Susannah Undress..., but it's interesting to see a show solely dedicated to showing men how to dress themselves, since they don't seem to get made as much. Not since Queer Eye for the Straight Guy went out of vogue, anyway. We've just been left to fend for ourselves, picking up our style tips from Ugly Betty and anything hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
But no more! Those of us who are still such fashion disasters that we pronounce "Versace" the way that Elizabeth Berkeley's character did in Showgirls have got help at hand in the form of everybody's favourite torso-touching ladies, who are introducing a dress code for men, so we'll all know the difference between a "brava!" and a faux pas. Of course, we watched Mean Girls again this weekend, so we know the rules: on Wednesdays we wear pink, we only wear jeans or track pants on a Friday, and we only put our hair in a ponytail once a week. We are so fetch.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Cut from a different cloth
DRESSING! Trinny & Susannah Undress, ITV1, 8.00pm Labels: ITV1, Trinny and Susannah Undress, TV
Oh yes, they're back - and they're still planning to delve into your psyche as well as your wardrobe. It's probably something of a relief to Trinny and Susannah that they're no longer up against Holby City as they were during the last series (although whether being up against Holby Blue is any less stressful we have no idea, since we've not checked the ratings in a while), although perhaps surprisingly our viewing loyalties tended to lie with these two anyway, despite our better judgement.
For those of you who missed the last series, the essential difference between this and What Not To Wear is that Trin and Suse not only go through people's wardrobes to vanquish their fugliest ensembles, but they also play armchair psychiatrists-slash-life coaches in order to establish exactly what horrifying mental trauma might cause a person to wear an ill-fitting bra with a hot pink camisole and lime green capri pants.
That side of the show is always a little bit dodgy, and a lot of the advice given out is the sort of stuff that equally unqualified people across the country are probably yelling at their tellies at the exact same time, but we can't deny that they know what they're talking about when it comes to sartorial matters. Plus, the sight of them barging in on hapless women in changing rooms and brazenly cupping their breasts still hasn't got old as far as we're concerned, so we're happy to see them back.
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