Nikita fidgeted and adjusted her black Armani two-piece Italian suit
1. Armani suits are all Italian. A dude name of Giorgio Armani does not come from Mongolia, you know.
Fashioned from a delicate crepe de chine, it brought forth the softness of the feminine form
2. Has this person ever seen the tidy, quasi-masculine shape of an Armani suit?
and the frilly peplum
3. Obviously not.
her almost invisible pearl studs sitting prettily In her earlobes
4. Not that close to invisible.
And that's just the clothes critique!
the frilly peplum added the illusion of fun expected from a successful young woman.
Wearing a frilly peplum may indicate that a woman is a professional, but probably not in the sort of profession the author has in mind...
"The illusion of fun" -- so successful young women are expected to
project
an illusion of fun rather than fun itself. Interesting.
I can sort of picture the look she's after, but if it's not an Armani picture(recent Las Vegas exposure tells me nsm) it's best not to be quite so specific...more of a Chandler thing, like "Casual as she looked, she even smelled like money."(Not like a Chandler Bing thing like "My God, could you *be* more ignorant?" although that crossed my mind, too, I must confess.)
The peplum effect, the only thing it brings to mind for me is that Italian woman in Matrix #2, wearing a latex white dress that was translucent enough to show her landing strip. The jacket had a peplum in the back, but all it did was make her ass look like a cuttlefish.
Not exactly the "illusion of fun" one is going for.
Dana, in the Old Natter, you were talking about new fandoms. Did you ever get around to/feel like watching Hustle?
(I didn't feel like waiting for new natter YAY posts to die down before asking.)
It's on the list, I swear. I have the discs you generously sent me. They're sitting right over there.
So no Hustle Slash for ita's birthday?
Oh well.
More seriously though, I sent it to you because I thought you would enjoy it (and write us slash).
If you never get around to it, ce la vie.
