What is Peplum? Do I need it? Post 469


 Peplum picture from Wikipedia.

The word peplum comes from the Greek word for tunic. It was originally a tunic tied at the waist. In modern fashion is is a tunic which comes in at the waist, but has an attention-catching ruffle or wide frill attached to create an hour-glass effect. You could also call it an overskirt.

Reasons For Peplum

To create an hour glass effect. To draw attention to a small waist. To make the wearer look attractive. To make the garment look more attractive. To create a new season's look so people buy new clothes. To distinguish one designer's outfits from another's.

To draw attention away from the face to the waist. It was the fashion twenty years ago. Your old vintage clothes are back in fashion.

Nostalgia. You loved the look last time and here it is again.

It's something you can copy to turn a boring straight tee-shirt or tunic top or tunic dress into something more interesting.

Reasons Against Peplum

It was the fashion twenty years ago.  It's not original. It's boring.

It makes you look and feel old again.

It draws the onlooker's eye away from your pretty face which you have spent hours making attractive. 

It is a distraction. It draws the eye from your face to the body when you are speaking. 

It makes men think of your body and sex and an instant one night stand instead of your personality and something long term and marriage material.

It makes you think it's a decorative outfit but there is no neck interest. As a result, when you see photos of yourself at a dinner table or online in a Zoom call you look boring.

Neutral View

If you are not against it, why not try it? It's a bit of fun. A change from last year. 

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peplum

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/peplum

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14258461/Millennials-left-horrified-popular-2010s-clothing-item-spotted-stores-decade-going-fashion

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