Comments on: Tuesday’s TPS Report: St. John Collection Linear Texture Skirt

By: Anne Vohl

Anne Vohl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:10:37 +0000

This reminds me – I bought basically this same skirt at Nordstrom about fourteen years ago. I should wear it more. It is navy blue and looks like striated velvet but it isn’t. I wear it with a lightweight cotton knit grey top piped in nay blue velvet. I add a nice string of sterling silver “pearls”. It’s a very classy outfit. I can add a light grey tweedy blazer. Navy hose and shoes, or maybe low black boots. Top it off with a blue tweed coat. Perfect!

By: millelilly

millelilly — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:06:58 +0000

I think it would work if it were just above the knee.

By: Lawgirl

Lawgirl — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:41:25 +0000

Like the skirt, like the shoes too, but not together. I’m too through with the “colored skirt+black tights+black booties” look. Fashion trendsetters, you will live to regret this, along with belted sweater coats, plaid shirts, Victorian ruffle blouses (Prince & the Revolution-style) and all the other craptastic trends you try to sell to the unsuspecting public…

By: L

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:05:47 +0000

It doesn’t go with my skin – I have light to medium skin but with olive undertones. So I never wear blue or navy, just black, brown and grey (for neutrals).

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:01:18 +0000

As for writing off blue, I think cobalt blue is a color that looks good on very few people (mostly those with piercing blue eyes in the first place). Visually it’s a color that the eye quickly tires of, and style-wise, it is either fully in fashion or fully out of fashion. St John has some elegant pieces but this isn’t one of them.

By: J

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:00:56 +0000

I have never heard of anyone writing off blue! Is there a particular reason for this?

By: L

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:47:46 +0000

I agree with cleo, the outfit is weird. Don’t like the skirt either, but then again I don’t wear blue.

By: cleo

cleo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:59 +0000

I kind of like it. It’s just the outfit as a whole that is throwing me off–hideous is a strong word for the shoes, but they definitely don’t go with this skirt, and neither does the patterned shirt with the striped skirt. If it were just this skirt with black tights, black (more neutral) shoes, and maybe a black turtleneck or something else pretty plain, I think it would be cute. And this doesn’t scream 80s to me, but I was in elementary school at the time so am not really familiar with what people were wearing to work (besides what I’ve seen on movies/TV).

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:20:11 +0000

Not a fan of the skirt! Too frumpy.

By: J

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:10:33 +0000

It even makes the model look…lumpy.