Where Is The Sex?

This season is off to a boring start. The summers of easy living, sexy clothes and nonchalant dressing are a thing of the past. The sex has been replaced by the prim, proper and predominantly prudent.

Forget flirty dresses, tarty tops and jeans slung so low one could easily mistake you for a builder. It's the season of demure dressing. If the 50s housewife look, i.e. full skirt with optional twinset (yes, they're back) inspire you than you can assuredly call yourself hip and in vogue. To cover up your body is fashion's answer to this season's trend. Putting a belted coat over your flower-print dress and hiding even more of those curves and you're leading the fashion pack. A sensible shoe and voila, it's party time. Ughh! Has fashion gone disaster this season?

From Prada to Zara, the look is feminine and fifties, but not fun. Unless you consider the eveningwear of some of the more interesting houses, sex is a hard sell this season. Though frankly whoever wants to dress like they've just come from the Oscars is beyond comprehensible. Sure, a Dior dress or Luisa Beccharia creation would look stunning, even sexy on you. But how often does the occasion pop up to demand high maintenance glamour? And truthfully, with our demanding urban lifestyle, how impractical to invest in a couture frock. And why opt for something sexy when everyone else looks like they've just come from a Tupperware party.

Perhaps the 50s look for is a move away from modernism; an answer to economic upheaval and global uncertainty. Perhaps it's an answer to the last ever episode of Sex and the City. The ending of the one of the most fashionable programmes on television has left a mirage of followers heartbroken, bored and plainly uninspired. So much so, that Carrie's wardrobe has been replaced by that of her mom's. Maybe we should all settle down, forget about fashion and focus on the important things in life. Or maybe we should grab those heels from the closet, put on some lipstick and a low-cut top. Hopefully it's the last option that inspired you. Unless you're a fashion victim of course, then it will be next season.