Off The Rails Don't Listen To Gok

Ali Schofield refuses to dress for her shape

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Off The Rails: Don't Listen To Gok

Careers are won and lost on knowing how to dress for one’s body shape. So career-critics Gok, Trinny et al would probably have something to say about my total lack of interest in the subject.

I’m aware that my child-bearing hips pit me unequivocally in the ‘pear’ category but there is no way, no how I’m going to avoid the voluminous, vintage culottes I snaffled on a recent visit to Pop simply because they might draw onlookers’ attention to the fact I look like I could feasibly spawn quadruplets without wincing (I’ve yet to bear children, so remain blissfully ignorant to my hips’ capabilities in reality).

I buy clothes because I like the look of them. According to my shape I should be going for figure-skimming A line skirts. But I don’t like A line skirts. And I don’t want to go shopping for a top with shoulder detail in order to balance me out. That to me is like shopping for a piece of art to fit with your living room’s colour scheme – heinous!

I want to spot garments like those culottes and buy them because they are the coolest things I think I’ve ever seen and, by association, I’ll feel cool. Similarly, if I see a yellow top I love, I will buy it, and hang the way it clashes with my blonde hair or makes my pale skin look a bit paler.

Nell Frizzel returns next week

Posted on Wednesday 9th June 2010

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