Let me first apologize for the quality of this photo. It was taken with my camera phone, in the wilds of the Woodland Hills Promenade Mall, while I was hunting tweeners near a giant movie theater. This young lady, bless her, is wearing... a matching sweater/knee-high booties type of... thing.
Now, in all fairness, she's a tweener and tweenage years are when people tend to make their most heinous offenses. This particular outfit was probably a Christmas gift that she BEGGED her parents to buy her. I once begged my parents to buy me a jacket with purple leather sleeves and a graffiti-style snowboarder embroidered on the back. I wore it twice before I realized it was horrendous.
Moving on.
What alarms me about this is that it's taking two things that I dread in the fashion world and blending them to make a fashion Frankenstein. Sweater sets are for people named Muffy who live in Connecticut. Booties are for NOBODY, especially when they're knitted to match a sweater. It's an atrocity.
This poor girl doesn't know any better as she probably still judges the quality of an outfit by its "cute" factor, ie, cutesiness. The "cute" factor really should only apply to those under the age of 12. After that it becomes cloying and might very well lead to the middle-aged "cute" dilemma: when moms dress like their daughters. Never, EVER a good idea.
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