The Peplum

I am treading thin ice with this one. Because I'm aware that the peplum is all the rage right now. It's everywhere! I see it in shopping windows, online blogshops, girls in my university are in love with this trend.

And I am here to proudly say that,

I AM NOT A FAN

The essential reason why I never caught on with it was because fortunately/unfortunately, I am already blessed with full hips. Just a little something something I inherited from my big-boned paternal Chinese family or my maternal Spanish ancestors. I'll never know who to thank or to blame.

So evidently, I didn't need any help in the hip accentuating department. When the peplum craze first broke out, I saw them on dresses. And I'll have to admit that the dresses were pretty but I admired them from afar. The accentuated the hips and the silhouette was lovely.

What a lot of people don't know is that the peplum has graced fashion magazines before. About 2 generations ago in the 1950's.

(image source: dixiedamselswaybackthen.blogspot.com)

(image source: fashionsfromthegirlnextdoor.wordpress.com)

So anyway, the peplum with a dress I can tahan. But what I cannot stand is the peplum as a top. I'm sorry lah but that is just :(
I do not like it at all. It looks really funny. To me, there is no bottom you can pair it up with and it will look good.

Yecch. Just yechh. Peplum pants? God forbid! Kim Kardashian is a beautiful woman but she really needs to know how to dress for her shape. She seems to like the peplum so much. I see her in those dresses, tops (and pants?) a lot. She doesn't need to wear those things! She already has sexy ass curves. She needs no help from the peplum.

So far,out of all the peplum attire that I have seen, this number by Victoria Beckham worn Blake Lively is the only one that I find acceptable.

The cut is beautiful. THIS is how you do peplum. You equalize the heavy bottom with a strong top so it accentuates the tiniest part of a woman's body: her waist. She is really killing it here. I LAF IT.

I hope the peplum top dies out soon (refer to second last pic again for reference). The reason for this random I NO LIKE YOU post is because my lecturer wore a peplum top today and I was cringing the whole time. Me no like peplum. Unless you do it like Blake Lively.