Last week on Project Runway, Tim Gunn was giving some constructive criticism to finalist hopeful Chris March. Chris had included some, um, human hair (!) as trim in his collection. The ever-so-wise Tim put it this way: When you walk into the monkey house at the zoo, you think "Oh my god, it stinks in here!" But after a few minutes, it doesn't smell so bad. And then a little while later, you think it "Oh, it's really not bad in here at all." But anyone else freshly walking into the monkey house thinks, "Oh my god, it stinks in here!" Tim thought Chris had been living with his collection for too long because the horrible human hair trim had started to really look good to him.
In other words, you can get used to just about anything if you live with it for long enough. I think that's what's happening here. When I first saw people wearing the Minnetonka boots, my initial reaction was - Oh great, it's gonna be the new Ugg boot. My detest for them was not to be taken lightly. But... now I'm not so sure. I'm going to put the blame squarely on the shoulders of Miss Moss who, granted, could wear a potato sack and still look lovely. I still haven't completely made up my mind. As Heidi would say, "Are they in or are they out?"
