FASHION TURKEY AWARDS By DeBra D. Bass •
[email protected] > 314-340-8236 Time to carve up the worst fashion fads efore the serious season of Black Friday power shopping, holiday decorating, gift-picking overload and end-of-the-year time crunches takes its toll, let’s sit back and reflect on something that’s not so serious. We give you the Fifth Annual Fashion Turkey Awards. These are items that inspire our mirth. BThese are items we consider fads in the worst sense of the word — popular for being popular, worn without consideration and therefore uninspired. In short, these are trends we wish would go away. First on our list is HairUWear or any other variety of the oddly hued clip-on wiglets. The last straw for us in ushering this product onto our list of 2011 Fashion Turkeys was the introduction of the animal print extension. The 1-inch clip-in exten- sions ($10) are in shades of neon pink, ginger (pictured) and electric blue tiger stripes. We didn’t actually mind the Native American vibe of the clip-in feathers (until there were reports of feather shortages and people raiding fishing shops to strip lures), but this is the usual modus operandi of a fashion turkey. People don’t know when to say when. If a slim feather is nice, a neon purple tiger stripe must be better, right? Wrong. This must stop now, or we’ll have people with faux dinosaur bones hanging from their hair next. The feathers had a moment. That moment has officially expired.