Four Style Trends I Can't Quite Make My Mind Up About

Double Denim

On one hand, you’ll be following in the footsteps of musical behemoths such as Shakin’ Stevens and B*Witched. But despite that, I reckon it can work, though if you’re going to try it perhaps go for black denim rather than blue, just to steer away from the Shaky look.

(Just had a thought: what if one day Shakin Stevens succumbs to some sort of motor neurone disease and is unable to prevent himself from shaking? That would be a pretty cruel irony.)

Aviators

I’m pretty sure they’re cool. I have a pair myself. And people have been wearing them since the 1940s or thereabouts without them going out of fashion. All the same, I have a sneaking suspicion they may actually be a bit too big, and are only a step away from the sort of massively oversized sunglasses that were popular amongst women a couple of years ago because they saw Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Moss wearing them, subsequently getting excited to the point of hysteria and rushing out to buy dozens of pairs whilst clucking ‘OMG!! They’re, like, really cool?!’

One Button Suits

Is one button really enough? I’m not convinced it is. It hardly seems worth doing the jacket up at all so might as well have no buttons (and why do I suspect that will be the next trend?).

Much better to get a two-button suit, then even if one falls off you’ll still have a trendy one button suit.

Trenchcoats

The in thing, according to this week’s Shortlist magazine. It’s probably worth bearing in mind the whole flasher thing, though. In your mind’s eye you might resemble Michael Caine as Harry Palmer in 1960s West Berlin, pulling up your collar whilst heading off to meet a defector who’ll surely provide you with some priceless titbits about the Soviets’ attempts to smuggle uranium. But there’s also a possibility that you’ll look like the strange man in the park who waits until young girls are walking by before leaping out from behind a bush, flinging open his grimy mac to reveal he’s wearing nothing underneath and screaming ‘Woahahahahaha!!!!!’

Just a thought.