
Certain garments can't help but evoke unfortunate associations. For us the one shouldered style bring up brings up
Express tank tops bursting at the seems with sorority girl bosom, beer pong, and
this tragic song. But our community just insists on keeping an open mind.
Couture in the City has tips on
how to wear the one shouldered style (even if her initial examples of the trend make us yawn since umm celebrities) and
Fashion Pad has
off the shoulder madness.

Now we associate this style with warm weather, possibly because of the bare skin, possibly because it can have a bit of a silly spring break vibe to it. But given the finds from
Couture In The City and
Fashion Pad, In fact, there seems to be a number of sophisticated fall styles that show off your shoulders. The Versace dress pictured above is clearly one of Fall 2008's best dresses.
Maybe this is simply a brilliant merchandising designer gambit designed to keep shoulders free for Fall's ubiquitous shoulder bags. Why make money off the dress when you can make even more money off the bag? But
Vince,
Lela Rose, and
Marc Jacobs all have fall styles we could really get into. Which makes us think this asymmetry isn't just about showing off boobs to distract your opponent at bear pong anymore.
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