These People Wore the Worst Dresses in the World and There's No Forgiving That

8.No, You Don't Have X-Ray Vision. That's Just the Dress

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You did not fall on your head and unintentionally trigger superhuman ability; you were not bitten by a radioactive spider. The way this outfit was made, you did not get any superhuman powers. Designing a partly see-through dress is an odd choice. Particularly in cases where the see-through component is the exact one you would want people not to view and yet this exists and someone most likely bought it. That reveals how much we actually know about fashion, which, to be honest, we don't. Fashion is not something we get. This garment has made quite plain to us what agony is involved. Though the idea of strategic openness in fashion is not new, this specific implementation challenges taste and pragmatic limits. It begs issues regarding the goal of clothes: is it to hide, show, or something in between? Perhaps expressing a comment on the nature of privacy in our increasingly public environment, the designer seems to be experimenting with exposure and vulnerability. Still, the execution falls far from ideal. The see-through panel arrangement seems more like a provocative than a deliberate design decision. It forces us to face our own limits and comfort degrees, therefore testing our ideas of modesty and appropriateness. Fashion should certainly challenge limits and start discussions, but there's a thin line separating avant-garde from just unworkable. This dress teeters dangerously on that line, and it begs questions about the target audience for such a strong statement item and the reasons for such creation.