Flashing some skin nowadays is all the new rage, if you couldn’t tell already from this look that Katy Perry put together (or shall we say, tied together). This dress represents a popular trend of disingenuous mistakes we’ve been seeing around lately. A disingenuous mistake is described as “disingenuously ‘doing something wrong’ with one’s dress.” The mistakes are often small, so they are noticeable if concentrated on, yet not too noticeable to where it draws attention away from the outfit as a whole. This includes letting bra straps show or underwear hang out, missing buttons, wearing mismatched clothing, or purposely leaving out articles of clothing, often letting more skin show. These haphazard imperfections, are seen to enhance status, even though they can look careless and sloppy. However, this look has become the latest, most popular trend in our culture that even stars, such as Katy Perry here, are trying out. Making a disingenuous mistakes on your outfit is about coming across not put together and perfect which in the end is more elegant than trying too hard and looking too elegant. This dress is an example of a bad disingenuous mistake because it is looks as if it was cut up the side and Ms. Perry came along and tied it together, making a very revealing and somewhat cheap looking dress that distracts how glamorous she looks from the neck up with her pretty makeup and curled hair. Lets just hope she double knotted those knots.
Two rules regarding scissors: Don’t run with them and don’t take them to your own dress. Following in Katy Perry’s trendsetting style of missing random parts of your dress and making the infamous "disingenuous mistake" is Mischa Barton. She was recently seen in a dress that looked as if she took a pair of scissors to it herself, unhappy with the original design. Let’s step back and put the scissors away now Mischa. Hopefully you have Katy Perry on speed dial to come tie up any loose ends on that dress.
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