Waisted

I remember the first time I saw this outfit

and being utterly inspired.

Seriously...

who would have thought of working

a shirt tied around your waist

as an intentionally fashionable

aspect of your outfit?

It's GENIUS if you keep the rest of your look

very polished and let the shirt-around-

your-waist give an edgy, cool factor.

You might even have to wear a second

jacket to make it look deliberate?

If so, I'd suggest keeping everything

around the same color scheme

 for cohesiveness, so it's not like,

"I literally just threw this on."

To see what I mean, let's take a look

at Rihanna, who sported this kind of styling...

...But instead of letting the jacket fall over

her butt, the chick tucked it in her pants!

Now, this is probably major fashion faux pas

for some of you, but I'll nevertheless

deem it to be quite interesting...

ingenuitive even!

She did the same thing here:

Now, I think this shirt-around-the-waist 

works because of the usage of similar

colours/prints in the entire outfit.

For example, in her first look,

Rihanna went with a blue denim scheme.

And then she used plaid with mainly gray tones all over.

And Taylor Tomasi Hill (who's in the first picture)

worked with white-and-blue colours.

It is this kind of coherency that keeps

the shirt-around-the-waist from looking like,

you know, you just threw it on!

I think Kanye got this concept:

He did denim on denim too,

but also offset it with white on white

--a pretty fresh balance, I think.

It's a perfect example

of taking a normally sloppy

and "throw-on" article of

clothing, and making it more

purposeful and uniform

to the rest of your outfit.

Now, I don't know about you,

but I'm kind of digging this look.

Yes, it's weird.

But maybe that's the point?

Fashion is supposed to have

its moments of strangeness.

And, yes, I realize that we all have

tied a shirt around our waists before

(insert the 90s here),

so it's not like this is

revolutionary or anything.

But I think the question is:

is it becoming fashionable?

And more importantly,

would you rock it?

- Leira

Source: Fashionistas World, Bauer-Griffin, Lipstick Alley, UpscaleHype, Fashion Gone Rogue