Paper Monitor
11:42 UK time, Wednesday, 30 December 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's a dress you may - or may not - have noticed. You may - or, much more likely, may not - have worn it yourself.
Amy Winehouse has a canary yellow one, accessorised with peekaboo black bra and toppling beehive. Cheryl Cole has a shoulder-baring version in salmon pink (farmed variety). Rihanna a cobalt blue number, and Lily Allen a red one.
All of which has set the Guardian fashion desk .
"[H]ow does Preen, a small London fashion label without an advertising budget let alone a private-jet budget, manage to pull off Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cheryl Cole and Rihanna all squeezing into an almost identical dress? By magic, that's how. Because that's what the Power dress is: old-fashioned magic. The dress a fairy godmother might conjure up for you if you had a hot date (and a fairy godmother)."
This dress - and others - are all over the papers today for the benefit of those among you who have yet to secure the perfect party outfit in which to flit hither and thither this New Year's Eve.
However, as a in the Times noted, there are an awful lot of party frocks in the shops, but parties worth wearing 'em to are in rather short supply.
But a features editor reserves the right to change his/her mind at the drop of a hat, and so today's lead feature in T2 is all about . A Snuggie does not make the list, nor do those cosy slippers you got for Christmas.
There is, bless 'em, a suggested outfit for stopping in on the sofa alongside the obligatory short va-va-voom dress in which to sip cocktails, and a long-boots-'n'-woolly-jacket number in which to brave the chill of Trafalgar Square/Hogmanay/etc.
But get this - it's a short sleeved jacket. What, pray tell, is that about?
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