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Via Pubcurmudgeon, something we can all agree with.

"Growth of the turn-up hits jeans industry"

From The Telegraph:

Once shunned by fashionistas as less than de rigueur, turned-up jeans now have the endorsement of hipster and celebrity alike.

I'm wearing yellow socks

Leonardo Di Caprio, George Clooney and David Beckham have all exposed an extra inch of sock with gusto. And thousands of young, fixed gear bicycle-riding, Hackney-dwelling twenty-somethings have followed suit.

I'll see your yellow socks and raise you pink

But the revival of the turn-up could be hurting what had was once seen as an unstoppable growth industry - men's jeans which fit properly.

I'll trump those with one pink and one yellow

Europe has also undergone something of a turn-up renaissance. Stores in Europe sold £72 million less in jeans which  were neither too short nor too long this year than last. However it would be too soon to predict the demise of denim - retailers still sold £2.2 billion worth of jeans and denim jackets and waistcoats across the EU in the period.

Ha! I'm not even wearing socks!

The news was welcomed by the European Association Of Dayglo Sock And Shoelace Retailers who reported surging sales. Sales of black shoe polish have also taken a hit as hipsters made the switch to brown brogues.

Even on Monday to Thursday. With turned-up jeans. FFS.

"Fears someone will die due to rising use of flares in stadiums"

From BBC Sport

Children as young as eight are being used as "mules" to smuggle flares into Premier League matches, according to new research.

A survey found a third of supporters have been directly affected by bad fashion at a stadium and that 86% are concerned for the general level of taste.

Use or possession of 70s clothing in grounds can lead to bans or prison, and an education drive has been launched. Fashion Police Minister Damian Green has said  "someone could get killed" by toppling over on 4 inch platform heels.

In the first three months of this season, there were 96 1970s fashion incidents across the Premier League, Football League, Football Conference and domestic cup competitions. For the whole of 2012-13 that figure was 172, a steep increase from 72 during the previous campaign and just eight a year earlier.

Last season saw 71 arrests for 'possession of wide collars/Kevin Keegan perm at a sporting event', an increase of 154% on the 2011-12 season.

The Premier League-commissioned survey of 1,635 supporters found more than half of fans had witnessed glam rock at a match, 24% had had their view obscured by bell bottoms, 10% had suffered from glitter dust inhalation and 2% had been affected by polyester static.

"The Devil Wears Pravda"

From Wiki and Wiki:

Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite ridiculing the shallowness of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, she lands the job "a million girls would commit genocide for": junior personal assistant at Pravda, a Russian political newspaper started by the Russian Revolutionaries during the pre-World War I days.

Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of the leading newspaper of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution subjects Andy to bizarre and humiliating treatment which Andy tolerates in the hopes of getting a job as a reporter or writer somewhere else.

At first, Andy fumbles with her job and fits in poorly with her gossipy co-workers, especially Miranda's senior assistant Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt). However, after the dissolution of the USSR, Pravda is closed down by the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

With the help of art director Nigel (Stanley Tucci), who loans her designer clothes, she suffers a huge economic downfall and is sold to a Greek business family.  She also meets the attractive young Communist Party of Russian Federation (Simon Baker) who re-acquire her in 1997 and established her as their principal mouthpiece.

Problems arise in her relationships with her college friends and her boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier), a chef working from the same headquarters on Pravda Street in Moscow where Pravda was published in the Soviet days.

During its heyday Pravda was selling millions of copies per day compared to the current print run of just one treasured "Book", a mock up of the current edition, delivered to Miranda's home along with her dry cleaning.

Andy finally succumbs to the Communist Party's charms after spending the night with them and becomes well known in the West for her pronouncements as the official voice of Russian Federal Socialism.

F1 Film Rush: Call to Show the Truth about the 70s

From FASH:

Rush – the new film about the 1970’s Formula One rivalry between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda – is a sharp reminder of how the polyester industry used sport to recruit new young wearers. The drivers are plastered in polyester clothing, while flares are commonplace both indoors and out throughout the film.

To counter the inevitable platform heel and sheepskin coat imagery shown in the film, taste campaigners in the UK are calling for warning ads about the impact of bad style to be shown in advance of the film.

Rush will remind older viewers of how the sideburn industry dominated hair until they were outlawed in 1979. Younger viewers will be surprised at the extent to which they were splashed on the sides of the drivers’ heads. Today, bugger grips only exist on the faces of ironic hipsters - something that would end if its prohibition were introduced by law.

The film shows how far we have come since the days when Fabergé shamelessly promoted their brands through sport. The sub-text of the companies’ near monopoly of Henry Cooper sponsorship was that their brands were as alluring and exciting as the sport itself.

And it worked. Evidence shows that children were more likely to start wearing Brut 33 after being exposed to Henry Cooper through advertising and sponsorship. There is also good evidence to show that adverts for cheap aftershave in films encourages young people to start a lifetime habit.

FASH acknowledges that felt hats were a major part of fashion in the 1970s and therefore it is not surprising that such appears in the film. However, FASH is also calling on the film industry to require the showing of anti-garish advertisements to be shown in advance of any film containing felt hats or flares, as there is evidence to show that this will help inoculate young people against the harmful effects of 70s fashion in films.

"Photographer and rugby player tumble through window to their deaths in slurry pit"

From The Daily Mail and The Daily Mail:

A photographer and a professional rugby player fell through an open third-floor window to their deaths at a glamorous party celebrating London Fashion Week.

Guests were horrified when Peter Alexander, 28, and Martin Spence, 22, both stumbled through the window, which was covered by a blind. They fell into a slurry pit on Martin's father's farm in Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Spence's sister Emma, who also tried to help, got into difficulty herself and was taken to be cleaned up...

The pair were said to be ‘messing around’ at Thursday night’s party, which was hosted by fashion PR company Blow to showcase designers and stylists. It was attended by drag queens in glitter and high heels, models and artists. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it responded to a 999 call at about 12.15am following reports that up to three people had fallen into a slurry tank.

"Shoddy and deceitful: Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King blasts Britain's tailors"

From the Evening Standard:

Sir Mervyn King today lashed the "shoddy and deceitful" behaviour of Britain's tailors, as yet another scandal heaped disgrace on some of the rag trade's most trusted names.

The Bank of England governor demanded a "real change in the clothing industry culture" in a fierce attack on the fashion community. He hit out at "excessive levels of compensation, shoddy treatment of customers and deceitful manipulation of the price of a three-pack of men's briefs". Pressure snowballed for a Leveson-style inquiry into manufacturers and retailers, with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls formally calling for an independent probe.

David Cameron backed the call for change and pledged new laws but ruled out an inquiry, agreeing with the governor that action is the priority. "We turned a blind eye to what those shits at the banks were up to, but we didn't realise that the rot had spread to high streets and shopping malls," announced the Prime Minister, tugging at a slightly itchy collar on his £200 Jermyn Street shirt, which was actually made in a sweat shop in Jiangxi province in China, "I think we've all been stiched up."

Moiré interference trousers

Explanation here. Picture from the Daily Mail.

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"Sarkozy seeks better ties with UK"

Hmmm*.

In other news, "Sarah Brown helps Carla Bruni seek out a badly fitting and frumpy coat/skirt combo".

UPDATE: Carla Bruni completely spoils joke by offsetting frumpy coat with jaunty Jackie O-style hat:

* UPDATE2. Rather infuriatingly, the link to the original article titled "Sarkozy seeks better ties with UK" is broken and BBC website is not working properly.

UPDATE3. Link is now working but they have changed the headline, thus ruining the joke. And my Jackie O comparison of today midday has become an instant cliché in MSM.