Repeat offenders find Twitter aide

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Why celebs who repeat dresses are tagged fashion offenders? Early this year when Duchess Catherine made a public appearance at a garden party for the Queen’s jubilee in an Emilia Wickstead coatdress that she wore less than two weeks ago at the Buckingham Palace, many raised their eyebrows. She has often been under the radar of the fashion police for repeating outfits but has always said that there’s no harm in repeating.
Now, we have actor Priyanka Chopra voicing the same opinion. She recently initiated a campaign on Twitter called #itscooltorepeat. The actor has started this campaign with her stylist Ami Patel. She thinks that celebrities should repeat or wear stuff they like. “Why is it that when I wear my favourite outfit twice, it’s circled, zoomed in and runs with an unkind caption like ‘fashion offender’, or ‘she cannot afford it’. What bullshit! I can afford it, but maybe this is my favourite pair of jeans and I want to wear it three times.”
Not only a few times, but city celebs think a dress can be worn as many times as a person wants to. The only caution one should take while repeating is that the styling should be a little different.
The city celebs think it’s completely okay to repeat, as after all it’s a personal choice. Fashion designer Ashima Singh of the label Ashii jokes that as a fashion designer she would like celebrities to buy more clothes and thus not repeat the old ones. But on a serious note, she thinks that repeating a dress is okay. “And it’s fine not only as a style statement but also on the level of being consciously aware. If you wear something once and throw it away, first of all it doesn’t set a good example and it also leads to consumerism,” she says and adds that an old outfit can look completely new by the way of styling it. “Just add a little pinch of colour with a scarf or a belt,” she adds.
Designer Monisha Bajaj also repeats a lot of dresses. She is so much in love with one particular dress that she wears it often. “I like to wear this nice backless long dress all the time. And since it’s neutral in colour, I team it up with a different bags, earrings or belts to give it a different look,” she says. Monisha thinks that one is only human and if one looks good and feel comfortable in a particular dress, there’s no harm in choosing it over a new one.
Young fashionistas too think the same. Supreet Raju, fashion student, thinks that it’s a good thing to have a different look at different social events, but the look can be constructed by repeating your separates. “So if I have a top, I wear it with denims once casually and with a blazer once formally,” she says, as she adds that repeating is cool till the time you don’t repeat it down to the last accessory.