Upon my travels over the festive period, I bumped into Kim, a stylish Mama who stole my admiration in this flattering LBD with chain embellishments on the shoulders. You must have had your head in the snow if you haven’t noticed the shoulder pad craze gripping the country at present - a trend I’ve only really seen adopted by the fashion hungry, Topshop tweens, or fire engine red-lipped, London “someones” who’ll try anything Vogue tells them to (although I beg not the pipe cleaner eyebrow thing…?. I mean, please). It was refreshing to see someone a little more mature donning this look, and totally owning it. 
A simple black dress (ever flattering) has been brought up to date with that shoulder detailing and I love it. Reminded me of Balmain’s spring/summer 2010 catwalk in Paris – mini dresses designed in a military salute of rivets, epaulets and metallics. That whole collection makes me want to rob a bank, and yet here Kim stands in her Papaya number proving to us all that high street copy cats are still the answer to catwalk envy.
Images with thanks to Grazia
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