Hallo Readers,
First, you will notice that the blog looks slightly different, and Truth Be Told, WTF has not yet mastered all the intricacies involved and so please bear with her. Some of you have complained that the previous format is not very mobile friendly and this is supposed to work better. Please do not be slow in reporting problems. She is as ever indebted to her friend Rebecca, who did sterling work on helping with the design and technical thingies, and the final touches will be done by Rebecca’s son when we can get hold of him and bribe him with suitable riches as he knows this sort of stuff backwards.
Second, it is good to be back with you after a ravishing couple of weeks in India. WTF promptly succumbed to a cold on arrival home and has been sheltering indoors fighting off the germs with plentiful supplies of hot lemon, ginger and honey and as much Lemsip as she could legally obtain. Having tried to avoid the news while away, she has therefore had plenty of time to catch up and none of it is good. Yes there is a stay, not a truce, in Gaza that should have started by the time you read this over breakfast and some hostages should have been released with more to come. Perhaps we should remember how those hostages came to be hostages in the first place, kidnapped on 7 October by terrorists who murdered 1500 other Jews with the most appalling violence and savagery, before dragging more than 200 of them, including babies and toddlers, back over the border to be used as bargaining chips.
Elsewhere, right-wing populism continues to thrive. We know that in the US, Donald Trump is way ahead of all his rivals for the presidency in 2024, including the present incumbent Joe Biden. Biden’s decency and commitment to democracy is apparently counting for much less than the fact that he has, in the words of WTF’s late mother, gone old and, in the words of WTF’s late father, looks as if he is walking around to save himself funeral expenses. The newly elected speaker of the house of representatives, Mike Johnson, is a religious fanatic who believes that same-sex marriage leads to paedophilia and beastiality, has spent his lifetime fighting abortion and who refuses to say whether he would support a ban on contraception. Hello Gilead. And do not even get WTF started on the anti-wanking pact he has with his 17 year old son in which they monitor each other’s computers with specially designed software to ensure that there is no viewing of porn. In Europe, joining Viktor Orban in Hungary, we now have Geert Wilders, a disgusting racist, getting 37% of the vote in Holland and looking, one hopes, unsuccessfully, to form a coalition government. And in Argentina, Javier Milei, the Pampas’ own version of Trump, but with a brain, romped to victory in the presidential election. And you have to ask yourself who the hell is voting for these people and why are they voting for them and the problem is that the answer is because they like what they see. They like the racism, they like the demagoguery, they like the strength with which democratic norms are to be dismantled. Next year we have elections not just in the US and the UK, but also in India, where the vile Modi thrives and people are nervous of expressing their views in public for fear of retribution and worse. So the joys of being back with you are somewhat tempered. Forgive me….
We start our review of the last few weeks’ clothing catastrophes with actor Jeremy Pope at the launch of the collaboration between Skims and Svarovski.
Good heavens. He is wearing sparkly male tit curtains instead of a shirt. Here is a WTF Rule. The fact that you can does not mean that you should.
Next up we have actor Kat Graham at the Glamour Women of the Year bash wearing Kate Barton.
Ouch. Don’t go up to Kat to give her a cuddle or you will probably puncture yourself somewhere painful. What happens when it’s cold? She could get metal burns. The whole thing is extremely silly. Since when was a giant silver bowtie a top? WTF also deplores the giant tit window.
Meet conductor (orchestral, not bus or train) Ollantay Velásquez at the Latin Grammy Awards in Seville wearing….who can even say what this is?
Did they run out of adornments? Ollontay looks like a camouflaged soldier hiding in the undergrowth. He would be well advised not to conduct anything in this getup or the front row of the audience will be showered in twigs and foliage.
Also at the Awards was Venezuelan singer Lasso, né Andrés Vicente de Jesús Lazo Uslar, wearing a quite ridiculous ensemble.
Never mind Lasso, someone should have found a lasso and roped him off the Red Carpet (WTF has become obsessed with the modern Western series Yellowstone, albeit that half the population of Montana seems to be wiped out every week by someone in the Dutton family, presided over by Kevin Costner). He looks like a Laura Ashley armchair.
Now to New York where we encounter actor and singer Kristin Chenoweth at the 20th Anniversary of the (excellent) musical Wicked, wearing Halpern.
One of the top songs in the show is called Defying Gravity and WTF is obliged to note that Kristin’s face has certainly defied gravity, leading her to suspect that there has been some interference in the workings of nature. (Kristin is 55). As for the dress, it looks like one of those pistachio deserts you get in fancy patisseries with extra slices for the feet.
He’s back! We are at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London where Olympic diver Tom Daley appeared wearing Dior. Scroll down slowly. Keep going after the pink handbag because it gets worse……
Not only have the trousers had an argument with his ankles but he is wearing pink socks under a pair of absurdly large brogues, like Coco the Clown does designer.
To the County Music Awards, always a source of nastiness, where we find singer Priscilla Block wearing….ummmmm…….
At least she didn’t spend much, having borrowed the high viz overalls from the local council – and the bollard. It has to be said that those trousers are not flattering and are a trifle tight over the minge area, giving rise to the high probability of a nasty case of Call for the Canisten.
And finally we have stylist Law Roach at the Costume Designers Fashion Awards wearing Luar. Kill me now.
This man is paid squillions to advise people like Zendaya and Anya Taylor-Joy what to wear, yet he turns up at a high fashion event with his hand on his crotch looking like a cross-dressing nun in fishnet tights standing in a bowl of mushroom soup.
This week’s It’s Got Got Go comes from WTF aficionado Honsa from Paddington who is disgusted by the Daily Telegraph. Well, I could end the sentence there, but in fact, I can’t because Honsa is particularly incensed by a Daily Telegraph story today about Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, wearing a £3,570 coat as she posed for Vogue.
Angela looks fantastic. Of course, the coat was lent by Vogue for the shoot. But the Torygraph cannot abide the idea that a Labour MP should be seen in anything other than Primark, even if it is not her own clobber and, Cinderella-like, borrowed for the occasion. The same sneering attitude was expressed by loathsome Dominic Raab, then ludicrously Deputy PM, when Rayner was seen at Glyndebourne enjoying the Opera. You don’t have to go to public school to like music and nice clothes. The Telegraph is a bigoted, snobbish rag and It’s Got To Go.
OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your suggestions for It’s Got To Go and your top comments, which WTF likes more than anything. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x