CELEBRITY TREND: TIERED SKIRTS

Apparently my friend and I weren’t the only ones mesmerized by the ‘Whirly Skirts’ display in the window of Old Navy on Broadway: celebrities all over the place have been spotted in tiered and ruffled skirts similar to the retail chain’s ‘it’ piece for spring. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the skirts in the display that fascinated us, but the mechanical twirling mannequins. Tiers first found their place on floor-dusting hippie skirts, but were hiked up in the 80’s and 00’s to the ruffled minis these celebs seem to favor. Swirling tiers bring to mind a few things – wedding cakes, Barbie gowns, and three year-old girls in Easter dresses – but none of them really seem like something a grown woman would to try and emulate. Here’s a look at celebrities attempting to do just that, some of them getting away with it, but most not.

 

You’d think being the niece of famed designer Tommy would have given Jaimie Hilfiger a leg up in fashion, but this “gentleman’s model” and aspiring entertainment broadcaster’s skirt (or maybe the whole outfit) belongs in the trash she’s skating by.

Take her fashion faux pas as a warning: if you can’t do tiers as well as Alessandra, pleats are not an acceptable replacement.

Images courtesy of the Fashion Spot forums.

 

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