And why are so many dresses soooooo long these days? It's like we're going back to the Victorian era. I blame Kate Middleton. Her dresses are usually down to her ankles, like a nun.
And if you don't want to dress like someone from an oil painting, then you have to have something that only comes down to mid-thigh! All the normal-length dresses and skirts seem to have disappeared. I'm five foot four, and thirty years ago you could easily get lengths that touched the knee or were just an inch or two below - i.e. a normal length - but now you have to either drown yourself in fabric or show the world your contours!!! And don't get me started on how foul most patterns are. Virtually all of them look like granny's curtains.
I've clearly woken up on the wrong side of the bed!
But while I'm at it, why do they make the models do so many silly poses? I can't see what the clothes look like when the model is jumping or flinging her arms or crouched over or photographed sideways. AND, Boden and Marks are shocking for Photoshopping models to look insanely underweight. Quite apart from all the health and societal issues that this creates, I CAN'T SEE WHAT THE CLOTHES ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE WHEN THE MODEL IS DISTORTED BY FUCKING PHOTOSHOP!
Here's an example I just grabbed from Marks. Look at the distortion.