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Manstyle: When your Mankles are Squeezed out by Mulottes

This terminology slipped by me last summer.  OK, I admit it, I fell asleep at the wheel and didn't feature a lot on the blog last year.  Do you want to know a day in the life of me?  Nope, you have to go over to D-foreverserenity for that.  Our platform is fashion and all the fashionable news and information we can find. Trends, celebrate our curves, and let's not forget our men!




Needless to say, we can't be everywhere curvy divas, especially when personal life kicks in.  But now that I'm up and rolling again, let me ask you, did you hear about "Mankles?"  Well, if you're a fan of The Cut as I am, you would have. But not to worry, that's what I'm here for. 




Photo:YoungJun Koo/I'M KOO
 Photo by YoungJun Koo/I'm Koo as seen on The Cut article by Allison P. Davis



If you guessed that Mankles are related to men's fashion. You've got it!  What exactly about men's fashion?  Well, "ankles" definitely gives the clue away.  So why do we refer to mankles in men's fashion?  Pardon me but aren't we repeating ourselves?  OK, curvy divas, the long and short of it, is when men don't wear socks, they show off their ANKLES!!!  Let's face it, guys have been doing this forever, going without socks. But while some men hide it when they do, many don't, and will roll a cuff on their pants or wear shorter length pants that are already styled to display them in all their mankled glory!




Hold up! Don't rush out to buy any pre-mankled (....I made that term up....) pants just yet.  It seems now there's a new Manstyle out.   Read the full Mankles article on The Cut here.






The Mulottes!


So that we don't have to re-word everything we just talked about above, except for inserting "mulottes" wherever you read "mankles".....just like culottes are fashionably in for us girls, mulottes are in for the men! I've seen mulottes for a while now too, again, because it is quite a popular street style, they have become respectable enough to be included in fashion's mainstream repertoire.


Photo 2 from No. 17 — Phillip Lim




             Phillip Lim in The Mulotte - Photo by YoungJun Koo






What do you think of the guy in the picture above?  Hey, to me he looks quite fashionably dressed.  Yes, our men are into fashion as much as we are curvy divas.  Loving it!   So guys, are you going out to get yourself a mulotte?  Also, tell me, do you show your mankles when you feel like it?  Ladies, will you go out with your men wearing a Mulotte?  How about those Mankles?  If you remember, Detectives Crockett and Tubbs rocked the heck out of those Mankles!









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