What To Wear When: You’re Gonna Get Murdered In Those Clothes (And Then Haunt The Shit Out Of
What To Wear When: You’re Gonna Get Murdered In Those Clothes (And Then Haunt The Shit Out Of Somebody)First of all, your editors are thrilled and gratified to have featured on io9! Welcome, new subscribers. May you all find what you search for, mostly fashion-wise but also in terms of missing bodies or lost eldritch artifacts.This week, in honor of Halloween, we’ll address a maxim from noted fashionista Tracy Jordan: “Dress Every Day Like You’re Gonna Be Murdered In Those Clothes.” Good advice, but does it go far enough? Keep in mind, you’ll be wearing the same clothes in your murderer’s nightmares every night – not to mention showing up in detectives’ bedrooms, materializing behind the occasional street corner psychic, and warning off hapless would-be fellow victims. We here at What Wear When don’t generally like to espouse the cultural fascination with beautiful female corpses (unless they’re flesh-eating), but if you gotta go, why not look your best? Call us clichéd, but there’s something about a white frilly dress on a shadowy apparition that’s absolutely classic. We don’t see any reason to mess with a perfect formula. This “Exploded Flower” dress from Kaviar Gauche, in addition to its evocative name, has a cleanly-tattered asymmetry both elegant and terrifying.Cover up (your dead body) with a men’s overcoat, like this one from Canali. The combination of masculine and feminine silhouettes is striking, and roomy pockets are perfect for filling with weird clues. May we recommend a disconnected phone number and some eerie doll parts?When it comes to footwear, your editors would probably skip it altogether in favor of the classic Barefoot Girl Ghost look. We’re into the feral uncanniness of it. However, if you must wear shoes, a sleek black pump looks fantastic lolling at a sickening angle from one bloodless foot. These Sergio Rossi numbers have a gold-webbed heel for a touch of sexy weirdness.A go-to perfume is a key piece for the living – but it’s an absolute must for the dead. Nothing’s more evocative than a smell, and nothing will chill your haunt-ees as much as a waft of eerily familiar scent, just before the crystals in the chandelier start to shiver and chime together, and the papers on the desk begin to rustle in an unearthly wind, and someone (you) starts whispering their name. Wear what you wore in life for maximum effect. If you didn’t wear perfume in life, your editors recommend the Tokyomilk Dark line for ghosts in search of a signature scent.Makeup-wise: focus on huge, sunken eyes with a terrible vengeful fire in them. We recommend a smudgy stick eyeliner (like Sephora’s jumbo liner in black) and a nude lip (NARS velvet matte pencils are our absolute favorite) for maximum creep. Kaviar Gauche long white evening dress, $4,990 / Sergio Rossi high heel shoes / Shay swarovski crystal jewelry / Canali Slim-Fit Velvet-Collar Wool Overcoat / NARS Cosmetics long wear makeup / Tom ford perfume -- source link
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